PAKISTAN DEVELOPS CAPABILITY FOR MULTI-WARHEAD MISSILES

ullu

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This article is old way back from 02 but would like us to discuss what if any information is available about pakistans Multi Independent Re-entry Vehicle" (MIRV)?


PAKISTAN REPORTEDLY DEVELOPS CAPABILITY FOR MULTI-WARHEAD MISSILES.

Text of report by Mohammad Saleh Zaafir entitled: "First test of new Hatf missile series to be conducted this morning", published by Pakistani newspaper Jang on 25 May

Pakistan is going to test the first of the country's new series of short and intermediate-range Hatf missiles this Saturday [25 May] morning. The missile will be fired from the "Tilla Range". This scribe has learned through highly credible sources that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has been alerted extraordinarily on the duration of these missile tests, that will last for four days.

The missiles to be test-fired during this period are capable of carrying nuclear warheads to their targets. During the tests, all the missiles will carry a payload equivalent to the weight of nuclear warheads. The United States was informed of these missile tests early this month.

The sources said that the services of telecommunication and space satellites have also been acquired in order to compile the results and technical data obtained from all these tests. For the first time, Pakistan will test-fire missiles on sea targets, aside from land targets.
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Pakistani scientists and engineers have already reached the places where the tests will be conducted, and their teams have finalized all the arrangements. Hotlines have also been set up to keep President Gen Pervez Musharraf informed about the tests. It is expected that Gen Musharraf will himself make an announcement regarding the missile tests.

The president's special adviser, Dr Ashfaq Ahmad Khan, told the daily Jang late Friday night that all the tests will be conducted during daytime and that details will be issued upon completion of each test. He expressed confidence that these tests will, by the grace of God the Almighty, be 100 per cent successful.

It was also learned that Pakistan has already started producing these missiles which were developed through indigenous technical capabilities so that they are available in required quantity. Experts say that the missiles that will be test-fired starting on Saturday have already been successfully tested in laboratories.

This scribe also learned that Pakistan has acquired technical capability in producing "Multi Independent Re-entry Vehicle" (MIRV) missile, which is a splendid achievement by Pakistani scientists in this field.

At present, the United States is the only country in the world that possesses trustworthy MIRV missile system.

The MIRV missile is capable of dropping more than one bomb on its targets. The Pakistani MIRV missile is capable of dropping three to seven bombs in different targets in an area of 80,000 sq. km.

Source: Jang, Rawalpindi, in Urdu 25 May 02 pp 1, 7.
BBC Worldwide Monitoring/ (c) BBC 2002.

Sorry no link... this is from the ullu archives. :D
 

gf0012-aust

Grumpy Old Man
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Verified Defense Pro
There are some real errors in this, eg:

At present, the United States is the only country in the world that possesses trustworthy MIRV missile system.
The US, UK, France, USSR, China, Israel all have MIRV capability.
I have attended a number of Warfare Conferences in the last 4 years where it has been openly discussed.

Japan, Germany and Italy all have the capacity to integrate a MIRV solution into their weapons technology if they chose to go to a tactical theatre missile solution (unlikely as MIRV without nukes is almost useless - unless you intend going down an NBC delivery process)
 

Red aRRow

Forum Bouncer
Old news ullu. :roll But thanks for posting anyways.
I think next target for Pakistani scientists is much longer range missiles like the Shaheen III which has a range of 3,600Km.
 
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