Weapons

WATCH: Pakistan Tests Nuke-Capable Missile Designed to Beat Indian S-400s

Pakistan's military inducted the Nasr missile into its arsenal in 2017, Sputnik previously reported. The missile is described by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of Pakistan's military, as "a high precision, shoot and scoot weapon system with the ability of in-flight maneuverability," according to a January 24 press release.

The Nasr system has a 70-kilometer range and is designed to counter India's "Cold Start" doctrine, a rapid-mobilization battle plan purported to guide India's military brass in the case of a limited war with Pakistan. India's Defense Ministry maintained in 2012, "There is no Cold Start doctrine," but those comments followed 2011 drills in which the Indian military drastically reduced mobilization times on the western frontier from 27 days to only 48 hours, Daily News Analysis India reported at the time.