Author: Political Commissar Studio Xiao Wu
According to the Observer Network, India recently successfully launched a "Agni 5" ballistic missile on Abdul Karam Island. According to the Indian Ministry of Defense, the Agni 5 missile has a range of 5,000 kilometers and can carry a nuclear warhead. After the successful launch of the missile, the Indian media began to make a noise, threatening that the missile could strike "almost all of China" . Although Indian officials did not further issue similar wording, they also acquiesced to the Indian media's statement. Analysts pointed out that with the sentiment of defeat hanging over India due to the perennial defeat of the People's Liberation Army in the China-India border area, the Indian government and military are now in urgent need of good news to revive the momentum. However, such hype means will inevitably have the suspicion of "carrots and sticks", especially if they want to intimidate China with nuclear missiles, and really treat the PLA's "Dongfeng" as a decoration?
The Agni series of missiles is india's ambition to "step into the long-range ballistic missile club". However, India's own industrial base and research and development capabilities did not allow it to have such a product, so when the Soviet Union collapsed, it obtained a lot of information to enrich the old Agni missile, and then developed the Agni 5. From the performance point of view, compared with the PLA's latest Dongfeng 41 missile, the technical level of the difference is more than 2 generations, such a gap is like the old-fashioned Su-27 encountered the latest J-20, but to solve the problem of India's "whether there is", as for "good or bad" is India's next development goal.
Of course, existence makes sense and value, and even the most backward missiles can put enormous pressure on interceptors when they cross air defense networks, not to mention that this is a missile that can carry a nuclear warhead. Analysts pointed out that although India's approach can bring huge "public opinion hot spots" to itself, it will inevitably stimulate the PLA to develop more advanced weapons to target. According to the current development path of the People's Liberation Army, science and technology have become the main theme. At the Zhuhai Airshow, China exhibited a large number of advanced reconnaissance aircraft and artificial intelligence AI systems in one go, and the corresponding supporting strike methods were also very rich. If India insists on using the Agni 5 missile as a "killer weapon", it will only intensify the pace of the PLA's implementation of "strategic surveillance" in South Asia.
The so-called "strategic surveillance" is to use advanced reconnaissance systems and joint communication equipment to seamlessly monitor each other's every move. At present, the only manufacturers in India that can produce (group) Agni missiles are the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization, which has only 2 factories and is located near New Delhi. If the PLA accelerates the laying of the "strategic surveillance" system in South Asia, combined with the "hypersonic gliding vehicle" that has been successfully tested earlier, the PLA will be able to "destroy the Agni 5 in place when it is not ready for launch." The reason why India dares to say that the Agni 5 can strike "almost the whole of China" is nothing more than because China and India are neighboring countries close together, which is an advantage for the Agni 5 missile, but it is a disadvantage for India's national defense. India can allow missiles with a range of 5,000 kilometers to cover all of China, but it can also allow the People's Liberation Army to easily use hypersonic missile systems to quickly hit all of India.
In addition, it should be noted that at present, the Chinese and Indian armies are presenting "the PLA unilaterally enjoys technological superiority over India." So far, China has successfully held several anti-missile interception experiments, and the anti-missile interception system has already possessed considerable combat capabilities. India, on the other hand, is still in the "blank" phase in this regard. For India, even if the Agni 5 missile is launched, the result is nothing more than the interception of the missile, and the missile vehicle and missile plant are quickly destroyed by the PLA. Even if the "fish that slipped through the net" strike was successful, the result was the PLA's "doubling back". So from these factors, India actually does not have the courage to fight with the PLA. Compared with the Platon, the Indian army is still in the "primitive stage", although he believes that he has the support of the United States and Europe, but such support is difficult to translate into reality, and the Indian army and the Indian government still need to face China and the PLA alone. Colliding with a military power is not a matter of brute force.