90 percent of our missile arsenal was and is Strategic or you can say for nuclear use.
Saying "Pakistan didnt use babur in may" is foolish even after knowing those missiles have a nuclear role. This was also the reason for the formation of the Rocket force command.
I know how missiles are stored and fired , We have enough facilities and stocks to produce TELs , Missiles , rocket engines and solid chemicals for propellent mixtures. Organizations like SPD are given black budgets for a reason.
Mind you which of our systems are more "traditional" ? The airtight storage containers are quite easy to manufacture , they are mostly from fiberglass and not carbon fiber.
Iranians have been using them to store their missiles and re entry vehicles and you think a country like Pakistan whose strongest defence infrastructure , spending , know how and men goes into the production and protection of strategic arsenal wont know how to make some composite cases??
Missile maintenance is nor that expensive as yall think , Missiles when manufactured have the capabilities to be stored for long times , propellant's have long shelf lives and guidance computers are readily checked for corrections.
We were initially talking about tactical ballistic missiles , which i bet we have in some number , considering the amount of tests we have done with them and how many are deployed.
Pakistan’s conventional missile force (ballistic + cruise combined) is not very large when you break it down by real usable inventory.
Going by older estimates, Pakistan probably has around two brigades each of conventional ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, which works out to roughly 150–250 of each type.
A good chunk of that inventory is old and likely nearing the end of its service life, so not all of it would be expected to be fully operational.
As for cruise missiles, we know Pakistan officially imported more than 150 CM-400AKG missiles according to SIPRI data, so at least part of its conventional strike capability is backed by documented acquisitions.
I doubt the RAAD inventory is any larger than our SCALP stockpile. Even if you include both older batches and missiles currently in service, I'd put the total number of RAADs and CM-400AKG ALBMs with the PAF at around 400 at most.
The bigger issue is that Pakistan simply doesn't have the budget or industrial base to build and sustain missile inventories on the scale that major powers do.
I'd expect Pakistan to start feeling the pinch after a couple of weeks of a high intensity conflict. Missile stocks don't last long and Pakistan doesn't have the money or production capacity to replace them at the pace larger militaries can.
A lot of its capability still depends on foreign suppliers, so replenishing losses quickly wouldn't be easy. That's probably why Pakistan seems more interested in buying advanced systems from China like SMASH and hypersonic rockets rather than trying to build huge missile stockpiles at home.
Fatah-4 is basically part of the broader rocket/missile family and not a completely separate massive new layer. Missiles like Babur form the core of your cruise missile force.
Raad has also had long standing integration issues. JF-17 integration ran into ground clearance and adapter problems which is why Mirage III/V platforms remained the main delivery system. Even with later redesign claims like Raad-2 for JF-17 Block upgrades, there hasn’t been clear evidence of large scale operational use.
Pakistan has barely managed to get past the MRBM stage, and even that track record includes two failures. Your only MIRV capable MRBM from the 2020s is basically an old Chinese space rocket adaptation and it's sitting at a 50% failure rate.
The funny part is that until 2022, Pakistan didn't even have the ecosystem needed for a serious MIRV program. No radars to properly track MIRV warhead profiles, no missile range instrumentation ship and no proven experience with post boost vehicles or putting multiple payloads where they need to go.
The origins of the program aren't exactly a mystery either. Pakistan's ballistic missile capability was built around North Korean Nodong and Chinese M-11 technology. That's why the progress has been slow and why there's still such a big gap between claims and actual capability.
On the ballistic side, Fatah and Hatf families form the main conventional strike layer but again production scale is limited and it is more about maintaining a usable force than building mass.
