Short of going to war, the best way to look at a military’s ability is the quality of its foes and the attention paid to it by its competitors.

China leaves its entire western flank without modern aircraft EVEN though the country on the other side of the Himalayas had insisted repeatedly that China is her “Number One Enemy.”

China wouldn’t leave their rear without modern weapons, especially on the border of an openly hostile nation of one billion, unless the forces on the Eastern front is overwhelmingly potent.

GD, I expected better from you 😮 Most of India’s AF is based near western border (aka Pakistan) Does it mean PAF is better than IAF? 😀 Lets not discuss hostility between China and India in this thread.

Infantry and artillery will rule any conflict in Himalayas.

Su-33s? Unit price on one of these anyone? This doesn’t/shoudn’t affect NLCA project.

if drops of water keep falling on a stone……one day the stone is crushed.

(thats the best way i could put this sayign in english!! hahahaah)

What is that drops of water you keep talking about? 15 years ago, Pak adopted a policy of bleeding India by a thousand cuts aka Jehadi Terrorist from Pak. India is today stronger and better poised in world order than it was 15 years ago. Can you claim the same about Pak? Look at what whabi madrassa education did to your society and values. And to put salt on injury, not even a inch of Kashmir to show…… 😀

There is no reason for FAS to biased in one way or the other. read the whole story. this will clear all your misconceptions regarding

About FAS, it has Trishul as an anti ship missile. I rest my case…….. 😀

Simple answer is no. There were too many Indians on FC-1/J-10 type

threads where i chose not to respond because of locking. here i am making

fun.

:rolleyes:

The french lost money on their sale of submarines to Pakistan, which brings into question whether they would even be interested in a follow-up series with Pakistan under the original contract.

So that IN will be forced to buy Scorpions IMO 😡

Can some one explain how zoom climb for “snap-up” tactic works?