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Ground-based deterrence

File:Temp 2S SS16 Sinner sketch.svg|thumb|250px|right|{{small|The Shaheen-II mobility is transported through a 12WD MAZ truckMAZ truck Due to Pakistan’s engineering feat, the American sources leveled serious allegations on China, and often compares missile to either of Chinese DF-11 or DF-25.Duncan Lennox; Hatf 6 (Shaheen 2), Jane’s Strategic Weapon Systems; June 15, 2004. Pakistani government has always refuted the claims of Chinese assistance, stressing that the Shaheen-II was independently designed in 2000; and its series of expensive trial and errors culminated in final deployment in 2014 to keep the secrecy of the program through ingenious development.{{rp|241}}BOOK, Khan, Feroz, Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb, 7 November 2012, Stanford University Press, 978-0-8047-8480-1, 500,books.google.com/books?id=yGgrNAsKZjEC&dq=shaheen+II+eating+grass&pg=PA241, 9 October 2023, en, Further evidence provided through a press video shown by its designing contractor, NESCOM, at the IDEAS conference in 2004, the missile can achieve “surgical precision”. Between 2004–2010, Pakistani contractors committed to series of testing of the Shaheen-II that included its engine, propellent, on-board computers, programming, and vehicle testing.{{rp|241–242}}The re-entry vehicle is also stated to utilize a GPS satellite guidance system to provide updates on its position, further improving its accuracy and reducing the CEP to {{cvt|200|m|ft}}—{{cvt|300|m|ft}}.{{rp|241}}WEB,www.fas.org/news/pakistan/1999/fbis-nes-1999-0422.htm, How ‘Shaheen’ Was Developed, {{dubious|date=February 2018}} This has led to speculation that Shaheen-II incorporates a satellite navigation update system and/or a post separation attitude correction system to provide terminal course correction, which “may indicate a CEP of much less than {{cvt|300|m|ft}}.” According to King’s College London, “the current capability of Pakistani missiles is built around radar seekers.“WEB,www.defensenews.com/article/20110321/DEFFEAT06/103210303/Pakistan-Seeks-Counter-Indian-ABM-Defenses,www.defensenews.com/article/20110321/DEFFEAT06/103210303/Pakistan-Seeks-Counter-Indian-ABM-Defenses," title="archive.today/20130408013207www.defensenews.com/article/20110321/DEFFEAT06/103210303/Pakistan-Seeks-Counter-Indian-ABM-Defenses,">archive.today/20130408013207www.defensenews.com/article/20110321/DEFFEAT06/103210303/Pakistan-Seeks-Counter-Indian-ABM-Defenses, dead, Pakistan Seeks To Counter Indian ABM Defenses, Defense News, April 8, 2013,

See also

Related developments

• Shaheen-I
• Shaheen-III

Related lists

• List of missiles of Pakistan
• Medium-range ballistic missile

References

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External links

• www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.47/pub_detail.asp" title="web.archive.org/web/20070822052931www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.47/pub_detail.asp">Pakistan’s Long Range Ballistic Missiles: A View From IDEAS
• www.sipri.org/contents/expcon/Pakistan.pdf" title="web.archive.org/web/20080213025440www.sipri.org/contents/expcon/Pakistan.pdf">Pakistani nuclear forces, 2006
• Ghaznavi / Shaheen-II - Pakistan Missile Special Weapons Delivery Systems
• How ‘Shaheen’ Was Developed

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