6. India has actual combat experience against a professional military (1947, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1984-86, 1999, 2019). Ukraine has no experience fighting against a superior professional military.
Still it was in Some way or the other Combat Experience for our Airforce. We learned a lot about tactics which were employed by PAF Against IAF that day. We learnt about the shortcomings by each Airforce as well and Improved on it. We learned many things and did get combat Experience Atleast in some way, well maybe the Definition maybe Different According to you I guess.
The nature of war changes with generational improvement of technology. War fought in 1971 was phenomenally different than the one fought in 1999.
Similarly war fought today will be phenomenally different than the one fought in 1999.
Only in books and online article combat experience plays key role.
What matters how well has the technology been assimilated by your forces and how well your forces have been trained on it for. How well have you formulated your plans and strategies based on that technologies.
e.g. Air war and anti-air operations were mostly based on guns (cannons) during 1971. Most combat was WVR.
In 1999 if either of air-forces engaged then their would have been limited BVR while majority of combat will be using WVR missiles.
Today's Air war and anti-air operations will exclusively be BVR and will totally be network-centric. Only WVR combat during emergency and exception.
Similarly Air-to-ground weaponry in 1971 was made of cannons and dumb bombs. 1999 saw advent of LGB and other PGM. Today's Air-to-ground weaponry is completely made of stand of ranged PGM.
The point I am making is combat experience of previous generation weaponry doesn't count much when their is generational improvement in weaponry and war fighting apparatus.