Pakistan test fires a submarine-launched cruise missile
Does this make you feel safer? Pakistan last week successfully tested a submarine-launched cruise missile with a range of 300 miles and capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
The article provides a lot of detail not only on Pakistan’s capabilities but of India’s as well.
Although still a far cry from India’s 6,000 ton displacement Arihant class nuclear ballistic missile submarines (one is service and three others planned) and the short-range K-15 or medium-range K-4 ballistic missiles they carry, Pakistan’s nuclear armed Agosta class boats at least get the country in the second strike game, but in a very minimal way.
The Indian Navy’s anti-submarine capability is credible, and their submarine fleet includes multiple diesel-electric submarines of different origin, as wells a Russian Akula II class nuclear fast attack boat. So keeping an eye on Pakistan’s tiny Agosta 90B fleet will be possible, although it is not clear what level of confidence the Indian Navy has that they can always keep the boats in their own submarines’ crosshairs. Not just that, but even attempting to do so will tie up valuable assets that could better be assigned to deterring other regional nuclear powers, like China.
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Does this make you feel safer? Pakistan last week successfully tested a submarine-launched cruise missile with a range of 300 miles and capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
The article provides a lot of detail not only on Pakistan’s capabilities but of India’s as well.
Although still a far cry from India’s 6,000 ton displacement Arihant class nuclear ballistic missile submarines (one is service and three others planned) and the short-range K-15 or medium-range K-4 ballistic missiles they carry, Pakistan’s nuclear armed Agosta class boats at least get the country in the second strike game, but in a very minimal way.
The Indian Navy’s anti-submarine capability is credible, and their submarine fleet includes multiple diesel-electric submarines of different origin, as wells a Russian Akula II class nuclear fast attack boat. So keeping an eye on Pakistan’s tiny Agosta 90B fleet will be possible, although it is not clear what level of confidence the Indian Navy has that they can always keep the boats in their own submarines’ crosshairs. Not just that, but even attempting to do so will tie up valuable assets that could better be assigned to deterring other regional nuclear powers, like China.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Luckily, this is happening in the Indian Ocean. And India will take care of the Pakistani, hopefully preemptively before it is too late. They have beaten them up good before. This is about China trying to surround India by bribing and arming Pakistan and Burma. But I think that the China bubble will burst and hope that the conservative Chinese tradition will focus them on more useful priorities. Why do they bother about India anyway?
“It’s the only way to be sure…”
https://youtu.be/aCbfMkh940Q
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That’s the spirit, wayne! Both thumbs up. That Sigourney Weaver character should be chief of the big bad button. So we know that the opportunity to user it won’t be wasted. Or at least that no enemy can imagine that it wouldn’t.
Noe falcon 9 will try to launch again! Better work out this time. Live here: http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/mission-monitor/
LocalFluff–
Great Space-X launch.
The Davy Crockett,
(W-54 warhead)
https://youtu.be/HdLm0PgrqBI
Sebastian Gorka
“Defeating Jihah”
C-Span Book TV event at Heritage
https://www.c-span.org/video/?408594-1/sebastian-gorka-discusses-defeating-jihad