Read the second part :
Then our pm is also responsible for trusting the babus now. Asper you babus are misleading this government, right?
A per me, our executive is the constant that has failed us for far too long and needs to be fixed. Defence is just a part of its failure.
Me and brute majority of indians have an opinion that any failure in defending the national integrity, the pm & goi is responsible for that. So asper me in 1962, the Nehru is responsible for that failure, and DM second.
US doesn't give a damn about India's interest. In fact US would love to see India getting into war with China. No matter what the outcome is, US is the only country which will benefit from this. Post war scenario will be something like this.
All I will say is that, we can remove the politicians from power for we have a system for that. We have done that in past too. That said lot of our problems have remained just like they have always been there. Procurement processes have delayed multiple times and what not. Vital intelligence has been missed or ignored. It makes sense to consider parts of the system which you may not be able to directly remove and you have not yet considered that vital part of the problem.
When you changed one part of the system that you have suspected to be problematic but your problem persists, what you think you should do next?
Its not the Modi that I "hate". Infact he is replacable if defective. It is other parts that worry me. Indian Army has capability but it does not have a "will" of her own. It is not allowed to have a "will" of her own. Its that will and direction that flows from south block that worries me.
There are options: "Third front" and Congress. But that was not even my point. My point was simply this :It is about time we start questioning the people other than politicians who may be responsible for this mess we are in right now. Also question the system which puts them in their position of power.
@vstol Jockey is an ex military man with decent service experience. He knows the mentality of armed forces better than anyone i guess
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We alredy miss the train when comes to infrastructure development along LAC. If we didn't give go ahead node for INS Vishal, PLAN start dancing along our coastal lune in near by future.@vstol Jockey is an ex military man with decent service experience. He knows the mentality of armed forces better than anyone i guess
China ramps up construction of 3rd, 4th aircraft carriers: Report
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The rapid growth of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has been a point of concern for the US and countries like India and Japan.
China commissioned its first home-built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, in December last year. The Shandong was based on a design derived from China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, which was a former Soviet Navy vessel, acquired from Ukraine. According to Chinese state-run media, construction of the Shandong had begun at the Dalian shipyard in Liaoning province in 2013.
On Saturday, Hong Kong-based media outlet South China Morning Post had reported that China is ramping work on its third and fourth aircraft carriers at the Jiangnan shipyard in Shanghai. “The Type 002 aircraft carrier—the country’s third carrier and the second to be domestically developed—has started the final assembly process,” the South China Morning Post reported, quoting sources. It noted that work on the third aircraft carrier had slowed down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Construction of the third aircraft carrier reportedly began in 2015. In December, the state-run Global Times reported the third aircraft carrier could be combat-ready by 2025.
“Workers are also starting the keel-laying for the new carrier’s sister ship. Both ships have been built by the Jiangnan Shipyard outside Shanghai,” the publication reported. Laying of the keel, the base structure of a ship’s hull, marks the beginning of full construction. Initial work on the fourth aircraft carrier had started in 2018, but was stopped in 2019, the South China Morning Post reported.
“Construction for the second Type 002 will be faster than the first one because workers have learned and overcome a lot of problems building the first one. It’s a challenging job because the Type 002 is our country’s first domestically designed aircraft carrier,” the South China Morning Post quoted a source as saying.
China ramps up construction of 3rd, 4th aircraft carriers: Report - Defence News India
The rapid growth of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has been a point of concern for the US and countries like India and Japan. China commissioned its first home-built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, in December last year. The Shandong was based on a design derived from China's first...
IMHO, we need systems which counter them. Missiles and submarines come to mind. China played the same game against USA. A bevy of hypersonic missiles, anti ship MARV and satellite network/drone to support them will make sense.
That all comes in handy if a war broke out. We cannot start war with china for patrolling near indian water ( we even didn't start fighting chinese even after they encroached in to indian an land, thats a different story ). We need to counter patrolling by patrolling near china, for that we need more destroyers and aircraft carriers.
You need tools to counter their ships first. To "counter patrol" or project power, it will come when we have enough resources. BTW, China also does the same wrt USA. It built weapons to counter US pacific fleet first and now it is slowly building its own equivalent of US fleet.
Armed forces can selectively leak information which can be highly embarrassing for the govt. And that will force the hands of the Govt.
Please read my post regarding how Modi and BJP have become slave to their own words and rhetoric.
REAL defence acquisitions are "lip service"? BOrder infra development is lip service? Suffer from ModiPhobia or what? If you want I can list them . Let me know
This government has done some serious infra development at lac, but when comes to defense acquisition, they torpedoed the most ambitious project aka mmrca.
Why are you so obsessively salty about Babus bro? And if you feel they are the bane for all of India's problems, why did you not go for UPSC instead of flying away to cold Canada?
