This video shows you that India’s ASAT missiles test established partial parity with China and superiority with Pakistan; here’s how.
In an age of growing uncertainty, the acquisition and demonstration of technological capability become the main instrument through which nation-states communicate military parity or superiority to the adversaries. On March 27, India tested a complex ballistic missile technology by shooting down its satellite with remarkable precision in space. In a live televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared this exercise, codenamed Mission Shakti, a milestone in India’s space programme. Developed indigenously by the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), India became the fourth nation after the US, Russia and China to have acquired and tested this technology. The question is, why did India undertake this exercise, and how did the international community react to this mission?
India’s larger objectives were largely ‘demonstrative’ and ‘status-centric’. It wanted to send a message across to its regional rivals that it has a robust space programme capable of destroying the communication and military satellites in space. In a way, this was to announce a partial parity with China, and superiority with Pakistan. Space experts in India had expressed fear that in the eventuality of war, China may ‘blind’ India by numbing its satellites in the space. The new anti-satellite technology is likely to work as a deterrent for China as India can also retaliate. India claimed that it was not intended to threaten any country, but in a domain of perpetual hostility, any technological breakthrough becomes an imminent threat to the other nation, especially if it has a military component. The timing of the test and Modi’s address to the nation was aimed at galvanising electoral support for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The ‘status-centric’ behaviour of India can be adduced from the statements of the Prime Minister, “India established itself as a space power,” and the statement of the Ministry of External Affairs, “India joins an exclusive group of space-faring nations consisting of USA, Russia and China.”India has a latent desire to be recognised as the leading state of the world, and it feels that its rightful place has been denied due to its colonial history and discriminatory regulatory regimes of the Cold War period. It believes that this new technology, similar to the nuclear test of 1998, will enhance its status and place it in the privileged club of space leaders.
This test also contained a message to the US and Russia that they must accommodate India’s interests while creating a new regulatory regime on space. India has been a victim of discriminatory regimes where the nuclear states formed a cartel to block new states from testing or acquiring nuclear technology. India is yet to become a member of the Nuclear Supply Group. Similarly, the NPT and the CTBT regimes were discriminatory for India. At several international forums, India has been denied a place on the high table. The demonstration of the anti-satellite technology was a pre-emptive move to claim its place before a new cartel is created.
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