Posted on 10/05/2010 5:23:48 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Russia should help India in developing n-triad: expert
Vinay Shukla
Moscow, Oct 5 (PTI) Ahead of Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov''s New Delhi visit, a top defence expert has said Russia should help India in developing its "wholesome" nuclear triad to further advance bilateral defence cooperation.
"In my view, Russia must help India in the development of its wholesome nuclear triad, so that it has naval, air and land platforms for its nuclear delivery systems," Ruslan Pukhov, Director of the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) said.
Pukhov is also a member of Public Advisory Board of the Russian Ministry of Defence and will accompany Serdyukov on his New Delhi visit beginning tomorrow during which the India-Russia intergovernmental commission on military- technical cooperation co-chaired by Defence A K Antony is to hold its annual session.
"Why shouldn''t we jointly work for the development of an Indian SSBN (nuclear submarine for launching ballistic missiles)?" Pukhov told PTI.
He suggested that India and Russia could jointly develop a "de facto" common naval system of nuclear deterrence similar to one the US and Britain have.
"In case China develops its fleet of aircraft carriers, Russia could offer Project 949 (Nato codename Oscar-II) nuclear submarines, naval Tu-22M3 bombers and even, although could sound incredible, the nuclear propelled missile cruisers of Project 1144 (Orlan class)," Pukhov said.
Reacting to India''s apprehensions about China''s growing military clout, Pukhov termed as false reports that Moscow was giving superior weapons and technologies to Beijing.
"The type of harmony and complementarity of the military-political interests Russia has with India, will simply never be in our relations with China. This would contradict the elementary
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Important regional offset to China’s military and economic development and rapidly growing military power.
"Feelings" have replaced common sense and right/wrong.
We are in bad shape.
Er, yes, of course India needs long-range heavy bombers and ICBMs and Boomers too. Of course. /s
Or Russia just needs more foreign exchange.
Do you have any better ideas for a second-strike capability against the Chicoms.
Er, a handful of boomers? You don’t need bombers AND ICBMs AND submarines. Just because the US was fooled into paying for all the duplicative systems over the decades doesn’t mean that every other nation has to be that stupid.
That’s deterrence for you-and it has worked more or less for almost 50 years since the first ICBMs and SSBNs entered US and Soviet service. India’s triad requirements like that of Israel are on a limited scale i.e. At most 3-4 subs with intermediate range weapons. And ICBMS in the Indian context are most likely to be weapons with a range of more than 3,500 miles which would bring major Chinese cities in range.
Well...not quite.
As proud as I am of my service in the nuclear forces of the USAF, if I was in Washington I would push for almost all of the nuclear deterrent to be given to the SSBN’s. They are the safest of the three platforms, they give enemies little incentive to expand their nuclear forces or make sneaky first-strike weapons and if we go to a “no-silo” approach America’s heartland rides out an attack with almost no direct detonations instead of being a “missile sponge” that takes hundreds of hits.
That said, ICBM’s can’t (at this time) be shot down (or torpedoed by a Chinese sub) and having B-52s able to fire several hundred cruise missiles into enemy airspace is an invaluable deterrent. Plus, nuke BUFF’s and bones make excellent conventional strike aircraft. And even if we put aside all other Air Force assets, we need stealth nuclear bombers (specifically the B-2) to find and kill mobile launchers.
Absolutly NOT. The US should be offering the F-35 JSF, the F-22, the M1 Abrams (current package) and other systems to the Indians, as well as domestic production licenses for them. The Israelis and NATO should help in this regard as well.
Russia WILL stab India in the back when the time comes.
Yawn-how many times have we been through this routine. The only country in the region that’s likely to get the M-1 is Pakiland and that too via military-aid. Nobody is going to help India out of goodwill.
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