I have some criticism of the force usage here
- I agree one or two A3 at most could be pre-mated with HE warhead to fire a warning shot on beijing or shanghai and then sealed inside cansister, but not more given our paltry numbers. so that part looks ok.
- wasting 60 A1 and A2 sounds excessive to me, because it is not possible to change warheads quickly without using a crane and a proper facility, all these HE armed missiles would need to be premated with HE warheads and deployed to the field...that sounds like suicide to me given our palty nos and no first use doctrine. there is absolutely no guarantee that our C3 assets can keep a constant eye on 2nd arty assets , because there is no certainty of the air domination described here, or that such assets will be insufficient and not taken out or driven off stattion. for better or worse we lack the kind of early warning IR sats whose screenshot Austin posted from a Rus command center....so its mainly launch on impact for us to authorize release of n-weapons and launch on warning (swordfish type radar) to authorize release of HE weapons.
I am afraid if we tip 60 such vital missiles with HE that too in locations quick enough to reach delinga area , we will be nook nanga if the 2nd arty launches a big strike from another place like sinkiang or sichuan using another of their regiments. this as a indian PM I wouldnt do though cannot predict what our sikular harvard trained intellects can make themselves believe in.
I would maybe keep 15-20 such conventionally armed things and use them in scenario above, let the n-missiles impact where they will and follow up with a equal number of n-warheads distributed in the exact same way across cheen military and civilian targets. so they kill 200,000 people in bhutan they are going to lose 200,000 people in sichuan or yunnan in a similar size of town.
killing a few CPC members wont scare Liu, already in a rage and deep in his bunker. he is going to argue decapitation and call for release codes of the DF31 and JL2 now.
I fear nothing other than a joint US-Rus threat to stand down and demonstration strikes with PGS weapons on some cheen assets will make Liu see reason now, he seems too far gone = he will get everyone killed or need to be shot in the back of head with a pistol by chairman Peng himself. maybe the two 094 SSBNs on patrol in east china sea , rising to missile firing depth might suddenly get blown apart by mk48 or UGST HWTs fired by unknown miscreants tailing them
you always manage to leave us with 'Dil maange more' feeling! W.r.t. the scenario, I feel that in reality India would have to retaliate with nuke salvo, as some of the scenarios might not play out as easy for us:
