Arihant Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines

[TopWatcher]

We dont have a need for more nukes anyway, 170 are enough to take out both Pakistan and China 5 times over. And there are no other enemies that we need to worry about with a nuclear retaliation.

Even i dont think 170 will be used. Dharane ke liye kaffe hai.

 

[Anonymous Bharata]

We dont have a need for more nukes anyway, 170 are enough to take out both Pakistan and China 5 times over. And there are no other enemies that we need to worry about with a nuclear retaliation.

You forgot murica, make no mistake, they will always be our enemy no1. One of the reasons for their interest in St.Martin's island is to monitor our ICBM program & if possible sabotage it

 

[ArjunMK1A]

Wikipedia has altered its page on Arihant and the K4( 3500 km range ). Before , they stated that K4 was tested once from Arihant itself. Now, they're saying any of the long range missiles were tested only from pontoons. Is that correct?

Generally, the top tier missile testing by DRDO is very much shrouded in secrecy for long time. I had an conversation with an NAL scientist known through our relative during 2018 after the first SFDR launch. While the official media news is the Missile failed but he simply told the test was indeed successful and DRDO simply withhold the information.

Also, we came across dozens of Prithvi missile testing for decades now. Prithvi is such an old missile and it is pretty much we can speculate that DRDO is testing some new missiles but just simply not providing any tidbits to common people.

Same situation is going with SSBN and SSN a lot of manufacturing infra is upgraded in HSL but we rarely heard about them compared to MSL, GRSE, CSL ship building capabilities. The subs activity also very much in secrecy and we are getting tidbits in a very delayed fashion.

 

[Blademaster]

We dont have a need for more nukes anyway, 170 are enough to take out both Pakistan and China 5 times over. And there are no other enemies that we need to worry about with a nuclear retaliation.

No it’s not. 170 may be enough to destroy Pakistan completely but it in no way is enough to destroy China completely. You need at least 1500 nukes to completely destroy China. For starters it’s an acceptable estimate to guess that for every 2 nukes used, one will be a dud and you need at least three nukes per major city to obliterate the city. US has a targeting policy of throwing at least 6-9 nukes per major city. And you need more to destroy hardened military bases and depots. So China has over 150 major cities and 200 major military bases and that means you would need 2000 nukes to target those.

 

[Pundit Pikachu]

@SKC can you please move this discussion of nukes to another thread, this thread is for Arihant SSBN only