What India will do if Pakistan suddenly fires a nuclear missile towards Delhi?

The nearest military base of Pakistan  to Delhi is LAHORE,which houses a PAF base(source Wikipedia)
the Indian capital lies at a distance of 480 km from the Lahore city and Amritsar lies 50km away,

Assumption-the missile is fired from Lahore,

the decision to counter the missile depends on the type of missile


If its ballistic-

(this picture is only for reference)

Prithvi air defence-missiles would be used so as to intercept it in its high altitude course,

if prithvi fails to intercept,
Then Akash air defence-missile is set into action,which is designed to stop them at low altitude.



if it's a cruise missile,

(not a pakistani missile,image only for reference)

Then it's not headed for Delhi,
As they usually have a range of 350 km,and Delhi is way beyond its range,

It can be shot down by a AAM missile,(AAM-air-air missile,they are fired from a fighter jet)

Let's guess,
The kind of missile that Pakistan might consider using.


Pakistani missiles such as hatf or hatf Nasr are unguided ballistic missiles,with a range of 70 km,
So it's unviable for Delhi,

Missiles such as Ghznavi,ghauri and shaheen,Babur are left as a choice,

Ghauri was a complete reverse engineered version of North Korean rodong
And was a failure,but they claim that it is functional,

And it is speculated that the Pakistani traded their nuclear technology to Korea for the Korean missile nodong,on which ghauri is heavily based.

Ghaznavi can be used,as they have a long range of 2000km,but have a big '?' On their accuracy.
and they have been claiming that Babur have successfully passed the trials,
and it is claimed that it has a range of 600km,which is highly unlikely.


Babur  is a cruise missile and can be shot down by AAM,fired from a fighter jet.


So here is the winner

Ghaznavi can be used for a nuke strike on India,


(Actual scenario might be different,regarding the missile launch scenario,and the Indian response)

First of all the advanced  air defence  system of Indian military will detect the missile in the Indian air space and let me tell you the advanced air defence consist of these interceptor missiles

1. Akash air defence missiles
2. Iron dome air defence system.

India is also planing to buy the Russian S400 Triumph

So once they detect the missile they will launch a interceptor missile and since Pakistan has Gajni and Shahin class missiles those are not highly acclaimed and don't even satisfy the characteristics of a ICBM it will be intercepted easily and since Pakistan has launched and nuclear attack on India, India would be in the state of war against Pakistan and India will reciprocate the attack and since India has the capability to launch a nuclear missile from air(nuclear tipped Bramosh Cruz;being a Cruz missile it can not be intercepted; Bramosh is the fastest Cruz missile on the planet earth)

By sea(K4 missile; successfully tested in 2014 with a range of 3500km; India has nuclear powered submarines)and by land(Agni5 with a range of 5500km)

Let me tell you that it would be a three dimensional attack and Pakistan won't be able to handle it and it will cripple down within minutes.

It Pakistan does so it will be a suicide attempt.

JAI HIND