There are two sides. India and Pakistan.
India had/has/will have the quatitive advantage. We can not argue about that. 5 times bigger and probably 5 times stronger. India now has quality advantage. Look at the MKI, Brahmos, Mig29, Mirage 2000, Bison etc etc. And India is getting more and more (wishlist 125 mirage2000-5/Gripen/F16)/mig29sk/MKI) without the fact that Pakistan waking up everyone. It doesn’t care about it. It cannot so it has minimal deterrence.
Now the other side. Pakistan is smaller. It has been boycotted much monger while the other side started nuke testing. It has been a front against terrorism (whatever that may be). Now every small idea is being bashed by the neighbour that it might change the ballance. Which ballance? Quantity? I don’t think so. Quality? Well, the most modern they have are three decades old block 15 F16’s and no decent BVR or radar. At the same moment you can see MKI and mirage 2000 and many other exotic goodies going to find their way into IAF. And even if PAF gets newer versions of F16. Will that make IAF less effective? It may be countered more when attacking Pakistan. But if they both have nuclear weapons attached on ballistic missiles an a long border then what do these F16 add to that? A very little diversity? A kamikaze mission? So the propaganda and sentiment that PAF should get no advanced weapons is BS. The discussions about AMRAAM or JDAM are the same BS. If they not can be used against terrorism. Well. Why does India buy so many arms if they have only internal terrorism (haven’t seen external terrorism there)? Why is India buying latest UAV’s, missiles and planes? Just to find bad armed terrorists? I have the feeling if we ask why both nations are buying these things then it would be fair but one side is protected and the other side attacked several times. That doesn’t make the discussion valuable. So let us return to non political and purely technical side. And those posters that keep talking about high tech against low tech should try to understand warfare these days. The US uses high tech. Why? To minimize their losses. And they have their F16’s armed with AMRAAM while the Iraci’s have no planes there. Why to protect if something might happpen. And please look at the other side when you are judging. Appreciated.
first of all, please explain what is “quatitive advantage” 😀
and regarding your comments about Indian arms acquisition……. India has never said that it is going to use Su-30s or mirage’s against terrorists……
they are for equipping the airforce for fighting wars……
India doesn’t use the excuse that since it wants to attack terrorists, it need ‘AMRAAMs or JDAMs’
Why were Mirage and PGM usded against small simple armed groups in Kashmir?
say what ??? you are calling the pakistani army regulars and terrorists that pakistan sent to kargil as simple armed groups…..
and besides kargil, can you give details about any incident where India has used PGMs to take out “simple armed groups” in kashmir ? 😎
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