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Assessment of Pakistan’s Babur-1B Enhanced Range Cruise Missile

Pakistan has been developing and testing subsonic cruise missiles for more than a decade now. ISPR, Pakistan reported on 21 December 2021 that a successful test been conducted of an enhanced range version of the indigenously developed Babur Cruise Missile 1B. Some media reports claim the missile reached 900km range in the 2021 test. In the absence of publicized video or image of the missile during 2021 test, useful information on the missile dimensions and performance can be drawn out from 2018 press release on enhanced range Babur-1B cruise missile; hence the claimed media information shall be corroborated in this article.

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- Is the region ready? can the state deliver? essay from IndiaISSSPMay 16, 2020Our Work - Indo-Pacific Studies / Outreach PublicationsD. Suba Chandran, Is the region ready? can the state deliver? essay from India, Adluri Submramanyam Raju (eds) Human Security in South Asia: Concept, Environment and Development. Routledge: pp. 60-68 (2020). As a concept, human security also become a part of an expansion at the regional level as well. South Asia witnessed a series of studies on the subject during the 1990s and the following decades. As an independent line of inquiry within the security fold, although the concept of human security entered South and South-East Asia later than in the developed world, as a field, it has already witnessed indigenous literature on the subject. In fact, the later discourse attempted to even “reintroduce” the debate on human security in South Asia. Despite “introduction” and “reintroduction”, is “human security” as a concept and an independent security discipline placed well within the large security discourse in South Asia? Or is too early to expect the state to deliver on human security? This chapter looks into two primary questions – whether the region is read to address human security issues and whether the state can deliver. Send me an email when this page has been updated Subscribe...Read more...

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Assessment of Pakistan’s Babur-1B Enhanced Range Cruise Missile

Pakistan has been developing and testing subsonic cruise missiles for more than a decade now. ISPR, Pakistan reported on 21 December 2021 that a successful test been conducted of an enhanced range version of the indigenously developed Babur Cruise Missile 1B. Some media reports claim the missile reached 900km range in the 2021 test. In the absence of publicized video or image of the missile during 2021 test, useful information on the missile dimensions and performance can be drawn out from 2018 press release on enhanced range Babur-1B cruise missile; hence the claimed media information shall be corroborated in this article.

The Governance of Outer Space: Repurposing the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations

This article is an extended elaboration, inter alia, of my published comment on: “The Artemis Accords: repeating the mistakes of the Age of Exploration”, The Space Review, June 29, 2020.

Dynamics of China’s Defense White Paper 2019: Chinese Role in International Security and Implications for India

ISSSP Reflections No.59, July 31, 2019 Authors: Amit Mukherjee and Prakash Panneerselvam Introduction The rising discordance between the US and Chinese interests is now reaching new heights. The prelude to this newly heightened rattle was visible in recent times as the two countries were seen locked into an ongoing trade war. Combined with this, the […]

India’s ASAT Test

Rajaram Nagappa, Mrunalini Deshpande et al writes about India’s recent Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) missile test and its impact on India’s deterrence capability. Lot of news and analysis has followed the test – mostly political in nature with sprinkling of technical guesswork. This article, authors have tried to study the available information and piece together a more coherent picture.