They do talk a great deal about it in their press. Basically, their religious ideology is that India should be one. A good number of articles have been around about taking down Pakistan, even books suggesting so.
Recently, there is the Cold Start Doctrine which basically looks to grab territory in a limited way (or so its says publicly) but its suspected to split Pakistan across the waist-line.
I don’t think India can do that.
Success of this is down to Indian capability regardless of aircraft numbers flown.
Any such move would have to be:
1. Extremely well coordinated between air, ground and naval forces,
2. Have excellent security measures to prevent Pakistan from discovering troop concentrations, mobilisation plans.
3. Have an element of surprise especially in initial assault and in particular establishment of air superiority.
4. Excellent, innovative and inspired leadership on the level of Germans in early 1940s or Israel in 1950s-60s.
I don’t think India has this kind of capability.
As such any endeavour would be met with stiff resistance which even if the Indians prevailed would cause heavy damage to India’s fighting ability.
I do think that the main concern is that there may be some insurgent attacks in India and they may try to act like the US and try to do “precision strikes” on Pakistan. Such a move is what deterrence is all about. This could of course quickly escalate into a full scale air war.
250 JF-17/F-16 is sufficient to deter Indian air force incursions.
Its interesting you’d say that thobbes. As strange as this may sound, the PAF is actually more concerned about the IAF M2Ks. For whatever reasons…
Interesting as there’s under 50 of these in operational service and the Indians are just as likely to hang bombs off them as they are A2A missiles..
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