Indian Prithvi Missile incapable of penetrating into Pakistan
Urdu Times (News) The Prithvi Missile launched by India recently lacks the accuracy and is inferiror to warheads of neighbouring Pakistan, a report published in an Indian newspaper said.
According to the report published in “The Pioneer” of New Delhi, recently, the Indian Prithvi missile has a low terminal velocity and hence its high explosive monolith warheads will not be able to penetrate hardened fortifications on the borders.
The reason for Prithvi’s low terminal velocity is that unlike Pakistan’s Ghaznavi, the body of the Prithvi does not separate from the warhead which results in aerodynamic forces on launch and during the re-entry phase into the denser part of the atmosphere being low.
The Indian Army itself, according the “Pioneer”, is not happy with Prithvi’s accuracy. It has asked for a solid propellant rocket to replace the present one at the earliest. For these reasons and considering the limitations on its training, the Army is hesitant to raise a record Prithvi unit.
Pakistan on the other hand has tested and proven its ballistic missile, which was unfortunately pooh-poohed by India recently while the United States, the World Community seriously noted the recent firing of a series of Pakistan ballistic missiles, namely Ghauri, Ghaznavi andAbdali.
Delhi had scoffed at reports in the US media, which pointed out Pakistan’s “superiority” over India in the ballistic missiles.
The report said it was an unambiguous message to India which remained unnoticed.
It was pointed out in the US media that at a time when India and Pakistan stand eyeball to eyeball, Pakistan will put its believed superiority in ballistic missiles to good military use.
Pakistan will give prominence to its ballistic missiles in its war plan both conventional and unconventional, added the paper.
The Indian military High Command had already reported to the Indian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence that the country had only a wafer-thin edge over its enemy in terms of military capabilities and that it would be unwise to go to war against Pakistan.
It had also pointed out that Pakistan had superior capabilities in several areas, specially in the field of missile. All the major cities in India are within the reach of Pak missiles and the number of strategic targets as well as the number of people likely to be affected are much larger than those in Pakistan, the Indian paper concluded.
http://www.urdutimes.com/englishnews/2002/08/22/en20/
:hehe: Do you think any Indian missile will be fully ready without any bugs at all ever???
