{"id":174479,"date":"2022-03-15T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=174479"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:51:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:21:36","slug":"brahmos-cant-be-mistaken-for-nuclear-tipped-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/brahmos-cant-be-mistaken-for-nuclear-tipped-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"BrahMos can&#8217;t be mistaken for nuclear-tipped missile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: There has been an accidental launch of supersonic\u00a0Brahmos cruise missile from India into Pakistani territory<\/p>\n<p><strong>India\u2019s Response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read &#8211; T<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-the-issue-of-accidental-indian-missile-drop-in-pakistan\/\"><strong>he Issue of Accidental Indian missile drop in Pakistan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>India officially admitted that \u201cin the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>India has ordered <strong>a high-level Court of Enquiry (Inquiry)<\/strong>. It said \u201cWhile the incident is deeply regrettable, it is also a matter of relief that there has been no loss of life due to the accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan\u2019s Response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Islamabad has criticised Indian \u201c<strong>security protocols and technical safeguards against accidental or unauthorised launch of missiles in a nuclearized environment<\/strong>\u201d. It wants India to explain its procedures to prevent accidental missile launches and the particular circumstances of this incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read &#8211; T<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-the-issue-of-accidental-indian-missile-drop-in-pakistan\/\"><strong>he Issue of Accidental Indian missile drop in Pakistan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is Pakistan\u2019s argument that India has launched a Strategic nuclear weapon is incorrect? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> as per <strong>India\u2019s nuclear launch posture<\/strong>, the strategic weapons (commonly referred to as \u201cnukes\u201d or nuclear-tipped missiles) are invariably delivered via ballistic missiles, never via cruise missile. It was a cruise missile (named Brahmos). Therefore, it was not a strategic nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> the cruise missile had been launched from near <strong>Sirsa<\/strong>, which is home to a major <strong>air force base<\/strong>, not from any Army Brahmos units, which are related to the strike corps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thirdly,<\/strong> launch of a strategic, nuclear-tipped ballistic missile require a two-person launch protocol, whereas, the Brahmos Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) was launched from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>The post is based on an article \u201c<strong>BrahMos can\u2019t be mistaken for nuclear tipped missile<\/strong>\u201d published in the Business Standard on 15<sup>th<\/sup> march 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: There has been an accidental launch of supersonic\u00a0Brahmos cruise missile from India into Pakistani territory India\u2019s Response Read &#8211; The Issue of Accidental Indian missile drop in Pakistan India officially admitted that \u201cin the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile\u201d. India has ordered a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/brahmos-cant-be-mistaken-for-nuclear-tipped-missile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BrahMos can&#8217;t be mistaken for nuclear-tipped missile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-174479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704817580},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}