Xi is working very hard to project his macho image. Let us see how much successful he remains. Certainly, things are moving out of his hands.
Xi is working very hard to project his macho image. Let us see how much successful he remains. Certainly, things are moving out of his hands.
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.
Kalyani's M4 and Tata WhAP are only for test trials I believe, not for real-time deploymentGame of logistics and infra for winter is being played by Indian side.
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Kalyani's M4 and Tata WhAP are only for test trials I believe, not for real-time deployment
Kalyani's M4 and Tata WhAP are only for test trials I believe, not for real-time deployment
No wonder the explanation & graphics were so illuminating. The channel is by Rohit Vats. I'd encourage all of you to subscribe to it on YT & his handle in Twitter. I just managed the first 5 min. Will complete it late evening .
What if they have to fight with USA afterwards?The point is they won't get exhausted when fighting a country like India since they play at that level.
WTF ?!?! WhAPs are being sent out ??
Southern border of Russia is adjacent to China, which does pose a fighter jet threat to Russia. At least Russians reckon that and you could judge it by their deployment.Take the Russian border. Their main fighter jet threat is to their West and East, not the North or South. In the North, those areas are not approachable by air using fighter jets, only bombers, which need long range interceptors instead of the S-400.
Could you explain the maths here?? Russia has a border of 57000 kms with most of it adjacent to a security threat. While we have border of length 15000 kms half of which is a coastline with no threats whatsoever. Also the number of fighter jets and missiles deployed against Russia by USA, EU and China far outnumber those deployed against us by China and Pak. The situation of Russia and India is simply not comparable. So how could you state that Russia only needs twice as much ADS than us??Strictly speaking, if they place SAMs all along their threatened borders, then they need roughly 20-30 regiments, even when covering the north, but their actual inventory is much, much bigger than that.
In comparison, our inventory is barely even enough to cover one of our fronts, and that's basically just the piddly nation of Pakistan. We have plenty of SAM holes at our threatened borders. If we go by Russian logic, we will also need about 12-15 regiments of the S-400 in order to cover only the Pak-China border whereas the Russians need only twice what we do even though their country is so big.
The threat China faces in its eastern sector is immense. World's most advanced Airforce and navies are deployed against it. The number of fighter jets and missiles ( both ground base and sea based) deployed against China in that sector is the biggest reason of their massive acquisition of ADS. Just because Chinese have huge inventory of ADS doesn't mean that they can deploy all of them against us. Situation in their East doesn't permit them. At most they could deploy 1/3 of their inventory.The Chinese inventory is completely unknown, but it's definitely very big. Merely their S-300 and HQ-15 batteries numbered 100 a decade ago. Our S-400 order is likely 20 batteries in comparison. So you can imagine what we are up against. Naturally, the Chinese need only as many SAMs as we need at our borders. So all their extra batteries are available in reserve, whereas we will have none in reserve, even if our entire S-400 inventory is operational. They have practically endless attrition replacements in a fight with India.
So you're saying IA would just deploy 1 or 2 WhAPs' or a couple of M4's without any prior operational expertise randomly against the chinese who have hundreds of such vehiclesI think all indigenous platforms deployed in Ladakh have done trials earlier. This should be seen as operational deployment without FOC.
What if they have to fight with USA afterwards?
Southern border of Russia is adjacent to China, which does pose a fighter jet threat to Russia. At least Russians reckon that and you could judge it by their deployment.
Could you explain the maths here?? Russia has a border of 57000 kms with most of it adjacent to a security threat. While we have border of length 15000 kms half of which is a coastline with no threats whatsoever. Also the number of fighter jets and missiles deployed against Russia by USA, EU and China far outnumber those deployed against us by China and Pak. The situation of Russia and India is simply not comparable. So how could you state that Russia only needs twice as much ADS than us??
The threat China faces in its eastern sector is immense. World's most advanced Airforce and navies are deployed against it. The number of fighter jets and missiles ( both ground base and sea based) deployed against China in that sector is the biggest reason of their massive acquisition of ADS. Just because Chinese have huge inventory of ADS doesn't mean that they can deploy all of them against us. Situation in their East doesn't permit them. At most they could deploy 1/3 of their inventory.
As I have said earlier the overall density is somewhat equal with those bigger nations having slight edge due to obvious reasons but we are catching up too.