Its nuclear triad, supersonic cruise missiles, and domestic production have placed India among the leading global missile powers

India is assembling a missile arsenal on a scale and with a degree of strategic depth that places it among the most consequential military powers of the emerging multipolar order. Its security calculus is defined by the requirement to sustain credible deterrence against two nuclear-armed states simultaneously: Pakistan to the west, bound to India through a history of partition, territorial disputes, and recurring military crises, and China to the north and east, whose expanding conventional and strategic capabilities intersect with unresolved border tensions. Within this compressed and highly militarized environment, missile development has assumed structural importance in national defense planning.

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