Dr Shireen Mazari, CEO of STR, on Wednesday welcomed the test conducted by Pakistan of its medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM). She explained that the significance of this test was not the Ghauri missile per se but the working of the now fully automatic Strategic Command and Control Support System (SCCSS).
This included not just the test firing of the liquid fuelled MRBM Hatf V (Ghauri) - now already a part of the Strategic Missile Force of the Army - with a range of up to 1300 kms - but also testing the SCCSS. It was the testing of the latter that was the central purpose of this exercise today.
According to Dr Mazari, the fully automated SCCSS enables robust Command and Control capability of all strategic assets with the National Command leadership able to monitor round the clock situational awareness in a digitised network centric environment. In other words, monitoring of the strategic assets can be done from the National Command and Control Centre through the automated control support systems.-PR