Do you think that we will invest a multi billion dollars on a lemon? I dont think so. We were seriously handicapped in 2019 and thats why we didn't retaliated for feb27. We building our military, s400 & rafale are one among such build up.
Bettter than mirages. We used mirages for strike mission in 99 & 2019.
when rubber meets the road we will know which are oranges and lemons. All we have is its capability on paper, how it will fare on battlefield is still unknown.
By that logic non of our military equipment except mirage not battle tested, including brahmos.
We didn't retaliate because of abhinandan. That's it not because we didn't have rafale or s400. Simple.
Prisoners of war is an unavoidable reality. Soldiers are trained to face that reality. Don't take a ride on Abhinandan for our inaction.
It wasn't a war. It could be at best defined as an air skirmish. Abhinandan was the reason we couldn't retaliate. Had they not returned abhinandan we were going to bomb a lot more than what is told. There was a lot of political pressure to de-escalate because of abhinandan going down inside Pakistani airspace. And I don't blame the GoI for not retaliating. It was not required to lose more men for getting abhinandan. It was a pretty smart decision. Our objectives were pretty much achieved and Pakistan locked itself.
hard truth is we have not fought a big war or a skirmish for a long time to know what our capabilities are. Even during kargil army chief said the intruders would be evicted in weeks and then it went for more than 2 months. Then we had to scramble to get bombs from israel, got outdated satellite maps, imported ammunition was found faulty..etc.
We dint have plan B, period. The moment you say we will dump every thing on you it means we had no idea what to do next. You dont fight war to get back prisoners but to achieve political objectives, prisoners are obviously collateral damage that you need to account for in your plan.
Obviously those criticisms are valid, we didn't plan for the aftermath. The government was in the illusion that it will go like 2016 and the Pakistanis will deny the strike and not retaliate. And for the most part the IAF's performance wasn't bad on 27th Feb. Our air defence overreacted and lacked patience which showed how IAF couldn't handle sudden pressure. But the airspace remained secured. It was expected that things will go like Kargil they didn't but it was a learning experience.The RoE argument is weak I agree. But the IAF hasn't tasted blood like the IA has. It's not as ruthless as the IA had to become. I hope they learn and understand that we are at war with the Pakistanis.
We were never going to retaliate. Unless we had suffered a major blow, publicly. War at that point was not in favor of the Trinity.
More like we never had a reason to retaliate and abhinandan's capture only made our calculations more complex..
yes thats what we lack , battle experience. We need to fight more smaller battles fine tune our strategy and process before taking a big leap. 1962 showed what we lacked which helped us in 1965 & 1971. Its better to lose small battles and learn some thing than to lose a big war.
Even if we HAD a reason to retaliate, it would not have been pursued. Unless there was a publicly visible attack, India will never retaliate. Does not matter how many soldiers, civilians die.
We did during balakot. We do retaliate. You are creating way too dismal a picture. The objectives of the retaliation maybe questionable but we do retaliate against Pakistanis atleast..
Our army has enough battle experience. It's the air force that hasn't been used to its full potential. You can use air force in small battles. Though regular air strikes should become a norm against Pakistan...
"public"... it was a massive public event before election. It was hitting one of the Trinity hard. So they acted minimally.
