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Directions (146‐155) : Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given. Below it certainwords are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Agni v, India’s most powerful long‐range ballistic missile, has lived up to the hopes of its creators at theDefence Research and Development Organisation. In its maiden flight, the missile demonstrated that it couldaccurately lob a dummy warhead weighing slightly over one tone to a distance of over 5,000 km. India already hasnuclear‐capable missile that can reach all of Pakistan and Agni V is clearly intended to provide a similar deterrent capability with respect to China. More test flights will be necessary before the missile is inducted into the country’sstrategic arsenal. V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, has called the missile “a game‐changer”that can perform different roles, from carrying multiple warheads to providing anti‐satellite capability and evenlaunching tiny satellite into orbit. Like its progenitor, Agni III, this missile has a two‐metre diameter (as comparedto the one‐metre diameter of Agni I and II). Agni III and V are therefore the first Indian missiles that can potentiallybe equipped with several warheads each (known as Multiple Independently Targeted Re‐entry Vehicles or MIRV)MIRVs, however, pose their own technological challenges, especially the need to considerably shrink the size andweight of nuclear warheads. Deposite China’s earlier start, its ballistic missiles are still thought to be equipped withsingle warheads, not MIRVs. This suggests that developing an operational MIRV capability is not easy and will taketime for both countries. Which is just as well because mutual security – as the superpowers discovered during theCold War – does not lie in going down that path.
Both China and Pakistan posses formidable nuclear‐armed missiles of their own. The former is in theprocess of replacing its liquid‐fueled ballistic missiles with more modern solid propellant ones. From bases inQinghai and Yunnan provinces, these missiles can reach all of India. In addition, in 2004, China launched the first ofits second‐generation Type 094 Jinclass nuclear‐powered submarines that will carry JL‐2 solid‐propellant ballisticmissiles. Islamabad too has a number of long‐range missiles in its armoury. An assessment carried out by an Indiastrategic studies group found that Pakistan had a “credible deterrent structure” organized around the solid‐propellant Shaheen‐1 and Shaheen‐2 missiles. However, for the purposes of deterrence also requires working
assiduously to remove sources of friction that can erupt into open conflict. It is also important that India and Chinastart taking to each other on nuclear matters.
Agni v, India’s most powerful long‐range ballistic missile, has lived up to the hopes of its creators at theDefence Research and Development Organisation. In its maiden flight, the missile demonstrated that it couldaccurately lob a dummy warhead weighing slightly over one tone to a distance of over 5,000 km. India already hasnuclear‐capable missile that can reach all of Pakistan and Agni V is clearly intended to provide a similar deterrent capability with respect to China. More test flights will be necessary before the missile is inducted into the country’sstrategic arsenal. V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, has called the missile “a game‐changer”that can perform different roles, from carrying multiple warheads to providing anti‐satellite capability and evenlaunching tiny satellite into orbit. Like its progenitor, Agni III, this missile has a two‐metre diameter (as comparedto the one‐metre diameter of Agni I and II). Agni III and V are therefore the first Indian missiles that can potentiallybe equipped with several warheads each (known as Multiple Independently Targeted Re‐entry Vehicles or MIRV)MIRVs, however, pose their own technological challenges, especially the need to considerably shrink the size andweight of nuclear warheads. Deposite China’s earlier start, its ballistic missiles are still thought to be equipped withsingle warheads, not MIRVs. This suggests that developing an operational MIRV capability is not easy and will taketime for both countries. Which is just as well because mutual security – as the superpowers discovered during theCold War – does not lie in going down that path.
Both China and Pakistan posses formidable nuclear‐armed missiles of their own. The former is in theprocess of replacing its liquid‐fueled ballistic missiles with more modern solid propellant ones. From bases inQinghai and Yunnan provinces, these missiles can reach all of India. In addition, in 2004, China launched the first ofits second‐generation Type 094 Jinclass nuclear‐powered submarines that will carry JL‐2 solid‐propellant ballisticmissiles. Islamabad too has a number of long‐range missiles in its armoury. An assessment carried out by an Indiastrategic studies group found that Pakistan had a “credible deterrent structure” organized around the solid‐propellant Shaheen‐1 and Shaheen‐2 missiles. However, for the purposes of deterrence also requires working
assiduously to remove sources of friction that can erupt into open conflict. It is also important that India and Chinastart taking to each other on nuclear matters.
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