There is a reason why I always curse those in South block.Why have we ignored on those?
Especially cruise missile.
Urrgh Nirbhaya got us in tough spot.
There is a reason why I always curse those in South block.Why have we ignored on those?
Especially cruise missile.
Urrgh Nirbhaya got us in tough spot.
Fighter pilots are extremely hard to replenish. Especially against enemy like China which may deploy considerable air defence -- though untested ones.Fighter jets. There's nothing more cost effective or reliable than fighter jets beyond the range of artillery.
I know. I was trying to say that the bomb also might be something classified like kali.KALI is not a bomb
Congress trained them 50 years to be like that. It will take some time to change that inertia. Modi has already forced retirement to the most useless ones there.There is a reason why I always curse those in South block.
The stupidity of non alignment coming back to bite us.
Two Front is Now a Reality
Speaking strictly about ADS requirements, the landmass of US, Russia and China is far bigger than us with US and China being 3 times bigger and Russia being nearly 6 times bigger.The USAF is planning to induct 10,000 LRASM and JASSM-ERs. These are expensive missiles. Definitely puts our 216 Brahmos-A to shame. To put things in perspective, look at the sheer size of Russian S-400 inductions: 28 regiments by this year, no idea how many more beyond that. And they have similar quantities of S-300 and Buk. And they will follow that up with dozens of regiments of the S-500. And this is only their air force. And here we are happy with 5 regiments of S-400 or 5 regiments of MRSAM or 4 regiments of Akash etc. You can bet the Chinese are easily much more than the Russians.
So the Chinese, Russians and Americans play at that level. We are not going to get through Chinese defences by throwing money at them at our current level. Until we can play at that level, we have to risk our lives, and we have to risk our fighter jets. Which is why I always say that war is for the rich.
Fighter pilots are extremely hard to replenish. Especially against enemy like China which may deploy considerable air defence -- though untested ones.
Speaking strictly about ADS requirements, the landmass of US, Russia and China is far bigger than us with US and China being 3 times bigger and Russia being nearly 6 times bigger.
Additionally US has 200 military bases around the world which are needed to be adequately protected from aerial threats.
China while have only one foreign base in Djibouti, has constructed tens of artificial islands in SCS to house ADS systems for a complex A2/AD system. And when you analyse the threat China is facing in SCS it all seems logical. They have to face most advanced navies and Airforces there of multiple nations, not to mention the huge inventory of CMs and BMs of these nations.
While the sheer size of Russia justifies it's massive acquisition of ADS systems it is further justified by the fact that not only it has multiple bases around the world it also borders with world's 3 most advanced militaries namely US, EU and China.
The threats these 3 nations face justifies their massive acquisition of ADS systems and also the acquisition precision munitions as they would need to destroy those ADS systems of enemy nation.
In comparison to these nations the threat we face is kinda small.
Although I agree that a follow on order of 5 regiments of S400 and half a dozen or so regiments of S500 or its indigenous equivalent won't do any harm.
Two Front is Now a Reality
They will, and that was the gist of my post. You are only focussing on the mass they are acquiring while completely neglecting the volume they have to fill. I am emphasising on the fact that although they have acquired mass much more than us, it is more than compensated by the volume they have to fill. That is why overall density remains same. Their massive acquisition of ADS doesn't mean that they are more well protected than us. Even a recent US report indicates otherwise by starting that US still doesn't have adequate ADS to protect all its troops and military installations. Same goes for China and Russia. We can take out any target in Tibet or Xinjiang if we want to, even we can hit Bejeing. That's that. The reason we are not playing at that level is that we don't require to.The point is they won't get exhausted when fighting a country like India since they play at that level.