2024-04-02 17:10:19
islamabad: India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully test-fired its longest-range ballistic missile Agni-V last month, on March 1. It is a missile with a range of more than 7,000 kilometers capable of carrying nuclear weapons. This is the 10th test of Agni-V since April 2012. The recent test is special because it was conducted with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicles (MIRV) technology. India has been working on MIRV technology for a long time. For the first time, India has officially acknowledged the demonstration of MIRV capability.
Pakistan-based World Echo News said in a report that the Agni-V is claimed by India to be China-specific due to its long range and the testing of the MIRVed Agni-V was seen as a response to China’s nuclear modernisation. Is being promoted. The know-how of the MIRV will enable India to integrate the technology into other short-range land and submarine-based missiles. This will increase the arms race between India and Pakistan and will adversely affect the strategic stability in South Asia.
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The report says the continued tests are rapidly expanding India’s nuclear arsenal. The actual expansion of India’s nuclear arsenal after the integration of MIRVs could be even larger, depending on the number of warheads and number of missiles that can be mounted on each missile. The MIRV enables India to provide multiplied lethality and attack a large number of targets using fewer delivery means, which combined with high accuracy could be particularly useful against hardened counterforce targets. In such a situation, India’s increasing weapons will also increase Pakistan’s desire for new weapons.
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Given India’s strength, Pakistan will also be forced to accelerate its bid for a credible sea-based second-strike capability with at least one submarine armed with nuclear-capable missiles. The result of this will be that India and Pakistan’s emphasis on nuclear arsenal will increase. That very crisis will lead to increased instability which will complicate the overall strategic stability in South Asia.