Moronic or what?
then some wonder why Indian SF casualty rate is so disturbingly high.
armed forces swallow up >$50bn USD/year (including pensions), almost half of this to the army and this is the product? Meanwhile ISRO’s entire budget is less than $2bn annually and they are truly world class- would never use that term to describe Indian military. Every major city in India could be linked with HSR within 10 years if armed forces were disbanded and not 1 penny would be needed from abroad to finance it (JICA loan is paying for MUM-AHD HSR).
The more I see, the more I see there’s a deep underlying sickness present inside Indian mil, colonial era mindset hasn’t been shed. The “leadership” still practicing what they were taught 100++ years ago from their British masters. They speak with upper class accents and know how to hold cutlery and glasses appropriately when they come out of OTA and IMA but they haven’t got a single clue how to fight in the 21st century.
They then get duped by Russians selling their outdated junk or think they can dupe the taxpayers with how inefficiently they are spending their budgets.
It’s been fine until now when India’s main threat has come from Pakis and their jihadi proxies with AKs and IEDs but when India’s armed forces get into a real conflict with, say, the Chinese military that ARE modernising and that ARE aware of their weaknesses and quickly filling them all those good for nothing “commando” drills and pathetic warfighting capabilities are going to exposed and exposed badly. Then let’s see how high the Josh will be.
@Gessler post that video where TONBO CEO is accurately calling out and humiliating IA leadership for how backwards they are.
