[techie128]

This is critical for the geopolitical stability of the region. Pakistan, China have traditionally assumed that India lacks the political will as well as the technological capacity to build advanced weapons such as these. This will be a big deterrence and help bring it peace to the region.

I would not be surprised if India announces ICBMs in the next 5 years. A country that can place 100s of satellites in space as well as place geostationary satellites, has the necessary rocket technology to build an ICBM. Just because they don't talk about it, doesn't mean they can't do it.

I think India is in the midst of adopting an active deterrence policy. Being passive hasn't yielded good results.

[shripadk]

India already has ICBMs. Read about Agni-V here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni-V