Secret Deal Between US and Pakistan led to Babur and than to Nirbhay for India.

Pakistan Launched Babur Cruise Missile in response to India's Brahmos. The world was stunned as a nation which doesn't have neither the capacity nor the capability to built a car or a plane , how it can built a such a highly sophisticated system. Moreover the missile flight path correction method employed uses GPS, TERCOM,DSMAC, INS which in itself are sort of highly classified and sophisticated technology requiring many years of research and large amount of investment. Moreover , technically speaking the Software and hardware expertise need to develop Tercom and Dsmac is very complex and can only be done when one already has large amount of experience in data integration , data fusion and data mining and that too in real time where the response time need to be less then Milli seconds. For example , all the terrain mappings and images are already there in on board Database of the missile. Making and marking of this image require complex algorithm along with large set of satelight imagery which Pakistan doesn't posses as of now. Then the hardware required to compare the database images to the images captured by missile on board camera while cruising are compared and the flight path is corrected for any deviation . The path which missile has to trace for reaching to the target is preloaded into the memory of the missile. This information is very huge as it hold data not only in path length but also in altitude, since cruise missile are terrain hugging to remain stealth from ground based radars. Doing this processing requires complex algorithm with too many optimizations which are not found in common software editors thus which further requires specialized editor development which is a long process. Also the hardware required to do this sort of calculation is very demanding. 

This is a highly classified information from some source ( please don't ask me "show facts" , source etc, etc" if it bothers you, that better don't read further) . The classified information is that when Indians are in negotiations with Russians on the Yakhonts (now Brahmos), Pakistan was quite worried. They were searching world over there options for a counter to cruise. Since cruise technology is very complex and only 2-3 nations were able to develop it at that time , there effort went futile. There was no match for cruise. But at the same time US war in Iraq and Afghanistan was at its peak, US was more interested to concentrate on Iraq at that point , thinking to put on hold the afghan war for sometime. To do that, they require some local power near Afghanistan to take hold of situation. Moreover , great collaboration and support was required to tackle the Afghan mess since only the pak border was the most porous one and the likely hood of afghan people and Taliban fleeing into Pakistan. US asked Pakistan for support and go against there old friends. Initially Pakistan was not interested in this as this will lead to lot of internal disturbance along with possibility of local criticism of going pro Americans. 

The Americans understood this and then they brought there old theory of aid, diplomacy and pressure. US threatened Pakistan to be an ally or to be ready to get destroyed like afghan. President Musharraf understand the consequence of saying no so he started making the public opinion pro US . US was quite happy to see this development but then Musharraf asked for some very classified military technology in the name of going against the principles on which Pakistan was made. Various weapons was asked but at the end two deals was done first green signal for F-16 block 52 with spares for the old one which got baned after 1998 nuclear test. Second was the crucial Tomahawk missile. Though the version given was not the latest but was having 1000 km range. US already knew that by giving such weapons also there are no chances of Pakistan becoming there potential adversary anytime soon. 

Pakistan stunned the world when they tested it for the first time , but to seem more realistic and to save world finger pointing of copy, they decided to declare it as a 500 km weapon which actually was 1000 km at that time and declared that future version will be developed to 1000 km. Full technology was given with seekers and software coming directly from US. All those news , missile technology stolen from the four unexploded tomahawk missile in Pakistan was just the propaganda to make things unclear and let the people guess. India was always aware of this as most of the world secret are always known to most big nations through there secret services route, but they don't speak of that in public. India took the matter to US in the name "shift of balance of power".  But nothing happened except some of there concerns were noted. 

 After two years , when Iraq wars was already over, and Us concentrating only in Afghan. The Ties between India and US started entering the synergy phase. With lot of NRI's lobbying at the US for India, US make a shift in its position towards India. They started considering India as a suitable contender for the growing china's influence in the subcontinent which posses as an adversary to to US allies.US wanted to put the improvement of relations with India on fast track , But only hurdle was India not signatory to many treaties which are mandatory to be a US ally like the CTBT etc. But seeing India's reservation on many points , they again brought there theory of Aid, diplomacy and pressure. India also accepted many things for which until now they have a serious reservation like the signing of CTBT, helping US in its fight against Taliban like overhauling of its war ships in India on there route to Pakistan, usage of there bases for strategic strikes. 

India in return got 

1. US changes of position towards India on many strategic global issues. Like exclusive Nuclear deal for which many nations were totally against as India is not a CTBT signatory.

2. Permission on sale of weapons which was not offered before. 

3. Joint working on many secret project to contain china.

4. Same deal of Tomahawks cruise missile, which was given to Pakistan with 1000km range. India will be putting this forth to public by the end of 2009 or starting 2010 with the name " Nirbhay cruise missile". 

5. Total intelligence sharing on information related to India(this happened after Mumbai attack). 

But all this is coming together when both sides have compromised there earlier tough position towards each other, like India has accepted signing CTBT within coming years. But they have not come public on this, once elections are done than you will see this issue in limelight and India finally signing it. This might also result in US lifting Yearly monitoring of its weapons given to India and allowing partial transfer of Technology for some components for the 126 MMRCA fighter plane contract like Aesa. 

Man, somuch politics happens at higher levels and we common people just spend thousands of hours commenting on a piece of information which could have been passed just as a propaganda. Please comment on the article if you liked it.

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Prashant Singhal