India Joins Nuclear Elite Club

[sweetshera]

Chak deh India bruahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17738633

[Sherdil]

By PALASH R. GHOSH AND YIFEI ZHANG:

India successfully launched the Agni-V rocket, a nuclear-capable missile, in an act that pushes the South Asian giant into the elite ranks of global powers with inter-continental ballistic missile technology.

India now joins China, Russia, France, the United States, the United Kingdom and perhaps Israel as the only countries with similar capabilities.

The rocket was propelled from a road-mobile launcher on Thursday morning in India from Wheeler Island off the coast of the eastern state of Orissa, one day after inclement weather delayed the lift-off.

The 17-meter-long device flew for about 20 minutes before returning to Earth at a designated target point somewhere near Indonesia in the Indian Ocean.

"The ships located in mid-range and at the target point have tracked the vehicle (missile) and witnessed the final event," said Ravi Gupta, a spokesman for India’s Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), the government agency that develops military technology.

With a range of at least 5,000 kilometers (3,100), the 50-ton missile could reach anywhere in Asia and even into Eastern Europe. It is the longest-range missile in India’s military arsenal.

BBC reported that it cost about $480 million to develop the rocket.

V. K. Sarawat, scientific adviser to the Defence Minister, told The Hindu newspaper of India: “With this missile launch, India has emerged as a major missile power. We have joined a select group of countries possessing technology to design, develop, build and manufacture long-range missiles of this class and technological complexity.”

V.G. Sekaran, director of Advanced Systems Laboratory, which designed the Agni-V, described the launch as an “overwhelming success.”

The newspaper also reported the missile is able to carry a 1.1-ton nuclear warhead, although on this test flight, a dummy payload was substituted.

"It was a perfect launch. It met all the test parameters and hit its pre-determined target," SP Das, director of the test range, told the BBC.

India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulated all the scientists involved in the launch and gushed: “You made the nation proud… Today's launch represents another milestone in our quest for our security, preparedness and to explore the frontiers of science.”

The Agni-V missile, part of India’s ever-expanding military arsenal, has been dubbed by Indian media as the “Chinakiller.” While India has been buying military hardware and weapons at a rapid pace over the past 10 years, China’s arms program is significantly larger. As such, Chinese officials have downplayed the threat India’s missile program may present.

In response to India’s successful missile test, Liu Weimin, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry told reporters in Beijing: “China and India are both important developing countries and emerging economies, we are not rivals, we are cooperative partners. We should both cherish the fact that our current good relations were hard to come by; we should make common efforts, maintain Sino-Indian friendship, deepen strategic cooperation, incentivize common development, and contribute to protecting not only regional but global peace and stability.”

Indeed, according to the Associated Press, China Central Television (CCTV) described the launch as a “historic moment for India and it shows that India has joined the club of the countries that own ballistic missiles.”

However, CCTV also added "[india’s missile] does not pose a threat in reality."

While Indian government officials wouldn't explicitly say the missile is intended as a show of strength to China, Arun Sahgal, joint director of the Institute of National Security Studies in Delhi and a former brigadier general, told BBC: "Agni-V will provide India with much-needed dissuasive deterrence against China which at present it lacks. With Agni-V trials, India's strategic [shortcomings] will to a large extent be overcome.”

It's interesting how quickly Indians start beating the war drums. Nicknaming it China Killer, when the Chinese have done nothing to provoke India, besides refusing to acknowledge India's claim over Kashmir. It shows that India is eating out of the palm of it's Western masters. It never misses an opportunity to show itself a friend of the U.S. and Israel, while at the same time painting Pakistan as the enemy. Everything that country does is opportunisitc. It has no morals or principles of its own. Lest we forget, India was a staunch ally of the U.S.S.R. After the latter's collapse, India switched sides and started supporting the U.S.

It shows the U.S. to be opportunistic as well. Nobody wants to piss India off because it is an open-market with a potential consumer base of over a billion people. That's why there is palpable silence when India tests a long range missle with potential Nuclear capabilities, but then there is stern disapproval of N. Korea doing the same.

A simultaneous news revelation shows that India kidnapped and killed U.S. and European tourists in Kashmir, and then played it off as the work of Pakistani militants. They did the same thing in the Chittisinghpura Massacre, where the Indian army killed Sikhs who were celebrating Hola Mohalla, and then blamed it on Islamist Militants. They did this right before President Clinton was to visit Pakistan for diplomatic talks. Clinton's Secretary of State even said India was lying and the massacre was the work of Hindu militants. India was trying to get the Sikhs and Muslims in Kashmir to fight each other. Communal tensions were high. Badal, Manmohan Singh and other politicians went to Kashmir to fan the flames. Akal Takht Jathedar Ranjit Singh and former SGPC President G.S. Tohra claimed that it was a conspiracy by the Indian govt. to get Sikhs riled up and fight the Muslims. Ranjit Singh made this claim after befriending the leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, while serving jail-time in Tihar Jail. Both Ranjit Singh and G.S. Tohra were removed by Badal after their statements against the Indian state.

[Guest RavindaSingh]

Nukes being made and launched by the likes of the indian government ... help us all !!

[singher23]

Chak deh India bruahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17738633

I hope you're being sarcastic...

Guys actually a war with China honestly might not be bad. India will definitely lose, and probably collapse, leading to us getting Punjab back

[sweetshera]

I hope you're being sarcastic...

Guys actually a war with China honestly might not be bad. India will definitely lose, and probably collapse, leading to us getting Punjab back

No why should I be? I have family in India and its security is of interest.

This is a great quote 'We are Indians, firstly and lastly' Dr Ambedkar. This guy was ace! He stuck it to the Brahmins.

[West London Singh]

Chak deh India bruahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

http://www.bbc.co.uk...-india-17738633

I hope it was tongue in cheek too. If not, then it might be a good idea to also read the yesterday's response from China. They dismissed India as a hopelessly pathetic and weak country and gave it a good public slapping, saying it could crush India like an ant if wanted to. If the 'chak de...brrrruah' comment wasn't tongue in cheek, I suggest the original poster read China's response to bring himself back to reality.

There's nothing to 'chak de...brrruah' about this. Its all rather worrying for all humankind. A nation that can't feed its children, school its children, house its citizens, get its trains to work without crashing and killing people, get its buses to work without crashing and killing people, gets its aircraft to work without crashing and killing people....now has its hands on the nuclear button :omg:

The Army and Air Force that manages to lose the greatest number of fighter planes in the world because of human error.......The Army and Air Force of whom 98% of its dead have been killed by 'accidents' with equipment rather than by an enemy now have their finger on the button of long range missiles. :omg:

This is not 'chak de...brrruah' time. This is a scene from a horror movie. The lunatics have the keys to the asylum. Its an accident waiting to happen.

[HDSH]

Guys actually a war with China honestly might not be bad. India will definitely lose, and probably collapse, leading to us getting Punjab back

That's an extremely over simplied view

[Sherdil]

India calls their missile China Killer. What if Iran launched a missile and called it Israel killer? Blatant double-standard.

[Guest RavindaSingh]

India calls their missile China Killer. What if Iran launched a missile and called it Israel killer? Blatant double-standard.

Iran will probably get cohersed into launching an attack against israel then the whole NATO forces would get involved and do what they do to any other middle eastern country !!!

[RebelSingh]

Chak deh India bruahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

http://www.bbc.co.uk...-india-17738633

wat a pasoo you r

No why should I be? I have family in India and its security is of interest.

This is a great quote 'We are Indians, firstly and lastly' Dr Ambedkar. This guy was ace! He stuck it to the Brahmins.

i dont kno y ur congratulatin dr.ambedar, this is the same fool, who asked permission to become a sikh! who ASKS someone else if they can convert? u do it, if u want to, nobody holds ur hand, pure pasoo.

I agree with WestLondonSingh, china man to man, would eat up americans n most nations, so wat makes india think they can even give china a dirty look and stand toe to toe? perhaps u shud read about the korean war, where chinese were all over the brits/americans/southkoreans like a rash. China, unlike india, is actually genuinely changin as a country, where 20 yrs ago the poor man would be eating rats, now he is eating comfortably, the comfortable eaters are now eating steak in restaurants, and the former steak eaters r now super duper rich. india on the other hand, well, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, end of! out of an estimated 1bn poverty stricken ppl in the world, 400m are in india! Altho all is not bad for india tho, india does have a worse human rights record than china, so india is atleast better than china at one thing, killing ppl for no reason!