Did Pakistan Fake Babur Missile Test Video?

Here’s the India Today report we put together this afternoon based on a controversy that’s broken out online over Pakistan’s officially released video of a Babur-III submarine-launched cruise missile test yesterday. First, here’s that video:

#Pakistan successfully test fired first Submarine launched Cruise Missile Babur-3. Rg 450 Km. #COAS congrats Nation and the team involved. http://pic.twitter.com/YRNei5oF65

— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) January 9, 2017

Hours after the video did the rounds online, several observers on social media said aspects of the video suggested it had been doctored, with the possible use of computer graphics to fake the actual missile. The tweets of one particular expert, a retired Indian military satellite imagery analyst who goes by the Twitter monicker RajFortySeven, got serious with a series of tweets:

#Pakistan #SLCM #Babur3 Geo-located CGI 25°20'13"N 64°53'18"E. Missile moves 15kms in 8sec speed 6750kmph. http://pic.twitter.com/Dc3TV6zVvd

— RAJ (@rajfortyseven) January 9, 2017

#Pakistan #Nuclear #SLCM #Babur3 Notice video closely at 7s. Missile was flying with canister for almost 8 secs? Cavitation canister?? http://pic.twitter.com/zIwIZzmfr1

— RAJ (@rajfortyseven) January 9, 2017

There has been no official response from Pakistan (there’s been plenty of unofficial chatter) on suggestions that superimposed graphic images have been employed. Will update this post if and when we hear back.

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