Heard on CNN yesterday that India has successfully tested a surface to surface missile capable of carrying a nuke. Another nuke country testing a missile. Am I the only that has a prob with this? I would say yes. It is India and they would never use such a weapon. If not, why test one?

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Come on! Where's the outrage on their testing of a nuke capable missile? You had no prob with NK and Iran, it lead to all kinds of scenarios, but this is somehow OK?

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Ofcourse this is somehow ok, if it wasnt for stupid Nehru we would have been inside P5 instead of China now.

Atleast i'm happy our govt doesnt has a ICBM program as of now, till the economy grows fully, converting a PSLV into ICBM would hardly take 2 year.

We have nuke program from 60's anyways, see this is not a nuke test but a ABM test, read bout a bit in here and there forums u'll see what it is.

We dont have first use policy,
We have a no-use policy against non-nuke countries.

For no-first use policy we need capable deterrent, hopefully the SLBM/SLCM program will give it a new life.

Ok.Ok

I don't consider it a big deal.

Other countries do it, so why single out India? They aren't threating anyone. They seem to be testing a delivery system for their nukes.

It is totally different than NK and Iran. IMO.

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Military might doesn't make up for political stupidity.

Its actually not a delivery system for nuke test, its a electronic test for the next test which followed it for Exo Atmospheric Missile Defence system in similar lines of US's Arrow 2, one of the diff being this thing lacking IR seeker as this is first test.

The new missile has been masked under this SSM and this missile has been completed dev in 1996.

Thanks Joey.

I was working from a blind script.

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Military might doesn't make up for political stupidity.

I believe the animosities between Pakistan and India could be seen as threatening.

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I agree, but we seem to be sitting on both sides of the fence. We are supporting Indias nuclear program so why should we complain if they test a missle?

We recently signed a nuclear treaty with india so it doesn't give us much wiggle room to say they shouldn't be testing missles. It's better to have an accurate missle than to miss the target and have to fire another one.

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Military might doesn't make up for political stupidity.

Boeing commercial jets yes.
security council P5.It was for nehru that china got in and we gave them the seat to go in.

yeah why bought carriers? we are making 2 carriers in home too.
why bought su30MKI?
what do you want india to be another Japan? or another pakistan?

India faces threats from China/Pakistan and its 70% oil are from indian ocean
which is worlds one of most trade routes.
we will do anything to keep the flowline secured for all nations.

I've never heard this complain a single time from "a guy who knows millitary stuff", you can post it in aviation forum and see the replies yourself .

We maintain a steady foreign policy which is indepent of any others, as someone said in next 20-30 years we are going to be the France of Asia.

Ofcourse we have the right because we are threatened by china who has right to have nuke as she is in P5, also me and our govt is for global disarmanent, with china keeping nukes india not is not fair game you know?

Atleast we dont go to northkorea for technology, we have enough enough talent to challenge anything provided there is money.
economy is the key for India.

and completely agreed on the fact no other countries should be allowed to have nukes, because they have it on religious grounds "most of them" which is fanaticism.

LOL most guys here have no idea how real world works.
Till date we dont have a single lockheeed Martin jets.

We are not a US puppet ya know, we never was? We are not counterbalancing China for US needs but doing sollely for a counterbalance in Asia without which the power will shift inrealistically to a communist regime side which isnt good.

Its US who are interested in good relations with us and we are obviously ofcourse interested in making good friends all over [that is why we dont have enemies beyond neighbours], I can give you a million examples when previously we were denied technology etc etc from US and we developed the same within some years...........

there is hell and heaven diff between communism and democracy.

Is Joey talking about the five countries that have veto power in UN?? I think that five countries are chosen due to their contributions to the second world war. India has an easy time then. Also during Nehru's time, Taiwan is one of the P5.

India's target is China, which is its neighboring country; while China's target is so much further away. This is so unfair. It is much harder for China to develop missile systems.

China promises both no nukes for non-nuke countries and no first use. India only promise one of them. Well, America seems to promise neither.