Missiles of Pakistan

Missiles of Pakistan

• Pakistan’s missile program is rapidly evolving, achieving greater accuracy, payload capacity, and range.
• The strategic competition with India has spurred Pakistani efforts to acquire ballistic missiles.
• Pakistan remains a non-signatory to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).
• Pakistan sees its ballistic and cruise missile programs as key to its strategy to deliver nuclear weapons.
• It continues to balance against India’s conventional superiority and follows a high-frequency testing schedule.
• Pakistan has a variety of deployed ballistic missiles ranging from tactical battlefield weapons to medium-range ballistic systems with the ability to hit any target in India.
• Pakistan currently deploys three tiers of ballistic missiles: battlefield short range ballistic missiles (BSRBMs), short range ballistic missiles (SRBM), and medium range ballistic missiles (MRBMs).
• A ballistic missle is a delivery vehicle powered by a liquid or solid fueled rocket that primarily travels in a ballistic (free-fall) trajectory).
• A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided vehicle that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path.