unless our tanks can fly, no such thing, we are short of everything against China, only nukes, missiles and SU 30 MKI are keeping Chinese off. May be in future large numbers of nirbhay missiles too will add to list.
You are partly wrong. We indeed are short of Chinese in terms of logistics. But there are certain advantages we yield, even today.
The Chinese have upwards of 200,000 infantry stationed in Tibet as against around 100,000 of ours stationed in NE. Then we have an armored brigade stationed in Ladakh alongwith some infantry formations. To add to this will be the new Strike corps based in Panagarh, taking the number up by 40-60,000. Mountain warfare calls for a minimum ratio of 1:10 and preferably 1:15 for the attackers. China is unlikely to generate this ratio unless it moves its formations from the Eastern seaboard, an impossibility.
Now the Chinese have far better logistics on their side, as compared to ours, enabling them to move in 30 divisions in 24 hours. Here again lies another hidden problem for the PLA. They can very well move in their army like the flood, but how do they supply them. It is a given that the first attack by our missiles and strike aitcraft will be against logistics lines and ammunition and fuel dumps. Without supplies even a milkion men army grinds to a halt, let alone in a arid desert of snow and ice.
We dont have similar road network, but we have a vey long and established record of maintaining bases and forward troops by air supply. The PLAAF has in its inventory some 80 cargo/transport aircraft as against 256 of ours. And our number is slated to rise, alongwith the airlift ability in terms of payload. This is not something that can be wished away by PLA planners.
In simple terms, neither side can walk onto the other territory. The Chinese cant storm in, and we most certainly cant invade them.
