India maintains nuclear edge over Pakistan with more warheads, next-gen ‘canisterised’ MIRV-capable missiles: SIPRI
According to the SIPRI report, the new ‘Canisterized’ missiles, which allow India’s war titles to be pre -installed and more safely, can potentially carry nuclear war titles even during the “peace time”. These new generation systems can provide multiple war titles using a single missile in the near future.
“It is believed that India once again expanded its nuclear arsenal in 2024 and continued to develop new nuclear distribution systems.
India’s newest generation delivery platforms include the AGNI Prime (AGNI-P) missile and independent AGNI-5 system with targeted re-entry (MIRV). According to the Indian Ministry of Defense, the AGNI-P, AGNI series is a new generation of missiles, an advanced variant. A missile between 1,000 and 2,000 kilometers. The last test of AGNI-P was held last year.
India also successfully tested MIRV AGNI-5 last year. This missile may hit targets at ranges exceeding 5,000 kilometers. Following the test, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the efforts of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) scientists who participated in the mission. In an article in X, he wrote: “DRDO was proud of Mission Divyastra, the first flight test of the AGNI-5 missile, which was developed independently of our scientists with a targeted re-entry tool (MIRV) technology.”
In the meantime, Pakistan continued to develop new nuclear distribution platforms and has accumulated more fissil materials in 2024, and claimed the intention to expand its nuclear arsenal in the next decade. A short Indian-Pakistan Military Conflict, at the beginning of 2025, at the beginning of Sipri, at the beginning of the Convenational conflicts, during the core conflict, during the core conflicts, for the beginning of the nuclei, the end of the nuclei, the increase in serious concerns. “The combination of military infrastructure -related military infrastructure and third -party dazenphoonization, the combination of strikes on the nuclear and third -party dazenphoon, was at risk of transforming a traditional conflict into a nuclear crisis.”
“This should act as a sharp warning for states who want to increase their confidence in nuclear weapons.”
Sipri also continued to modernize the arsenals of India and Pakistan, while China’s nuclear accumulation is progressing much faster. The report estimates that China has added about 100 new nuclear warpings per year since 2023. Until January 2025, China had completed or completed or completed approximately 350 new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), which spread to the desert areas and mountainous lands in the east of the country.
Depending on the force structure, China can potentially match the number of ICBMs of Russia or the US at the end of the decade. However, even if China reached 1,500 war titles foreseen until 2035, it would have only one -third of the war headings that are held by Russia or the United States.
Sipri Director Dan Smith expressed concerns about the weakening of nuclear weapons control and the expectations of a new nuclear weapon race. “China is increasing its nuclear power steadily, Smith added that the country could reach the title of 1,000 war in the next seven to eight years.
As of January 2025, Sipri predicted the total global nuclear war title inventory to 12.241, and about 9,614 of them are in military stocks for potential use. Approximately 3,912 war titles were deployed with operational missiles and aircraft and the rest remained in the central warehouse.
Approximately 2,100 of the war headings deployed were highly operational warned on ballistic missiles, most of which belonged to Russia or the United States. However, Sipri said that China could maintain some war titles on the missiles in peace time.
The report also said that since the end of the Cold War, Russia and the United States have dismantled more war titles than they have deployed every year and leads to a slow decrease in global nuclear stocks. However, this trend is now reversed, and the deployment of the new war titles increases and dismantling slows down.
Sipri said that all nine nuclear armed states continued to invest in 2024 to modernize the nuclear forces in 2024, including new technologies and weapons.
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