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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2021


INDIA'S HYPERSONICS HINT AT NUCLEAR STRIKE POLICY SHIFT




INDIA'S HYPERSONICS HINT AT NUCLEAR STRIKE POLICY SHIFT
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2021 BY INDIAN DEFENCE NEWS




Successful Shaurya hypersonic weapon test enhances strategic ambiguity of
India’s ‘no first use’ nuclear stance



With little fanfare, India successfully tested its Shaurya hypersonic weapon
with a strike range of 1,000 kilometers back in October. But analysts are now
starting to wonder whether the weapon’s development could signal a move away
from New Delhi’s stated “no first use” (NFU) nuclear policy.


The missile was launched from Abdul Kalam Island, manoeuvred during its terminal
phase and struck its designated impact point in the Bay of Bengal. Because India
keeps the Shaurya program under a tight shroud of secrecy, scant technical
details are publicly available.


The weapon is allegedly an improved land-based version of the Sagarika
submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), which was first developed in the
1990s.


In September 2020, India successfully tested its Hypersonic Technology
Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV), which flew at Mach-6 speed while being tracked by
a ship in the Bay of Bengal. That success was followed by a failed test in 2019,
where the HSTDV’s Agni-I rocket booster became uncontrollable and it did not
reach the desired altitude.


Significantly, India has a joint project with Russia to develop the Brahmos II
hypersonic weapon, which shares design elements with Russia’s 3M22 Tsirkon
missile. Brahmos II is under development by Brahmos Aerospace, established in
1998 through an intergovernmental agreement between India’s Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyenia.


Hypersonic weapons are designed to fly at Mach-5 to evade enemy missile
defences. They are useful in the early stages of battle to eliminate high-value
targets and smooth the way for follow-up operations by conventional forces.


Such hypersonic targets could include early warning radars, airbases, missile
batteries and command and control (C2) facilities, which are often linked to a
nuclear-armed state’s nuclear warning systems.


The Shaurya hypersonic weapon, pictured above, could signal a change to India’s
nuclear policy. Photo: Wikimedia


As such, India’s hypersonic weapons program may signal that the country is
changing its NFU nuclear policy to a counterforce policy, which sets out
exceptions to its present stance. As India is engaged in longstanding conflicts
with nuclear-armed Pakistan and China, India has strategic cause to review its
nuclear policy.


With Pakistan’s refusal to adopt a NFU nuclear policy of its own, India’s
hypersonic weapons could signal to Pakistan that it could conduct counterforce
strikes to disarm Pakistan of its strategic nuclear arsenal, thereby softening
the ground for India to overwhelm Pakistan with its superior conventional
forces.


Even if Pakistan were to limit the use of its nuclear arsenal to short-range
tactical systems, there is a very likely possibility of nuclear escalation from
a tactical to strategic level in a conflict scenario.


India’s hypersonic weapons program also adds teeth to the country’s deterrent
posture vis-a-vis China. China has recently fielded the DF-19 road-mobile
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and has substantially enlarged its
silo-based missile arsenal.


China has also fielded the DF-17 hypersonic missile since 2019 and tested a new
type of hypersonic weapon in July 2021. These developments may have prompted
India to accelerate the development of its hypersonic weapons program to
maintain its deterrent posture against China.


To be sure, India may remain committed to its NFU policy, despite developing
hypersonic weapons. India’s small nuclear arsenal means that carrying out a
nuclear attack against Pakistan would leave it vulnerable to a Chinese nuclear
strike.


If India opted to use nuclear weapons against Pakistan, the move could remove
China’s reluctance not to use nuclear weapons against India in the Himalayas,
where the two sides are pitted in a standoff.


In the 1960s, India considered developing its own tactical nuclear weapons to
offset China’s conventional military superiority but dropped the idea on the
basis that tactical nuclear exchanges would inevitably lead to strategic-level
escalation.



A DF-17 missile is unveiled during the military parade in Tiananmen Square


That said, India’s hypersonic weapons program enhances the strategic ambiguity
element in its nuclear policy. The weapons create a grey area between official
policy statements and actual capability development, with the lack of officially
declared red lines restraining an adversary from conducting actions that could
spark a nuclear response.


While India’s hypersonic weapons program gives it counterforce capabilities
against Pakistan and China, India’s longstanding NFU policy, operational and
capability constraints and the threat of nuclear escalation presents strong
incentives against openly changing its NFU stance.


In that sense, India’s hypersonic weapons fulfil their purpose, which is to
deter India’s adversaries from using nuclear weapons in the first place.





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