Indian Army
According to India’s own report, the total strength of the Indian Army is 1.15 million soldiers and 40,000 officers. The establishment is similar to the British army
Army Military District (HQ)-Corps (CORP)-Division (Division)-Brigade (Brigade)-regiment or Battalion-Company-Platoon-Squad ( Section). Most of the establishments are larger than similar establishments (number of personnel) of the Chinese Army before this reform.
In actual tactical use, the largest front-line unit division corresponds to our army's combined brigade.
The basic tactical unit of the combat arms and combat support arms is the battalion. The regiment number is adopted. The order of tactical units is division -> brigade -> battalion.
Logistics
According to wiki data, the number of trucks in its establishment is roughly 30,000, which is extremely disproportionate to the size of its troops. The internal trucks are centralized and managed by service units established by military divisions. The division has a field service group and the army has a brigade-level service unit. The number of logistics units directly under each military-level unit is as high as 6,000.
In the case of a small number of trucks, it is extremely dependent on a few airports, railway trunk lines and other transportation hubs. Division-level command organizations are usually stationed at airports or transportation hubs.
Helicopter platforms have been built at border posts and border strongholds that implement the forward policy. However, since they can barely operate the 5-ton Polaris helicopters, they can only solve the problem of replenishment at the end of the mountain light infantry company. A brief summary is to send lunch to the outpost.
In addition to the truck transportation of troops, the strategic reserve of logistics materials
Deep facility construction
Ammunition production and support...
Well, these public information is of an indescribable level
In contrast, the logistics units of the Indian military theater have achieved unified management and full motorization, which can cover the regiment level and above, and the transportation capacity of the logistics units directly under the military is close to the level of the PLA in 1976.
The team's logistics support capability is close to the level of the People's Liberation Army in 1985
The logistics support capability of the barracks is close to the level of the PLA in 1966
Heavy equipment
While the scale of tank equipment is huge, it is a disproportionate scale of infantry fighting vehicles and very few self-propelled artillery.
There are about 60 45-car tank regiments in the Indian army. The largest unit is the armored division, with 2 armored brigades, 1 infantry brigade and 1 gun, equipped with more than 300 tanks. The Indian army is still gradually establishing an independent armored brigade and then merging into an armored division. The largest number is still the T72 tank, and the remaining two regiments of Aqiong and other miscellaneous things. After the new batch of T90 arrives and is installed in parallel, it should replace a considerable part of the old tank.
At the same time, the Indian army may only have more than 1,100 BMP-2 and 350 BMP-1 (and there is no sign of replacement or increase).
Before the K9 is fully delivered, the Indian Army’s active self-propelled artillery may only have less than 100 FV433 + stone crossbow + 2S1.
Tank assault breakthrough + infantry fighting vehicle accompanied by mechanized infantry assault + self-propelled artillery firepower is basically a fixed match of the army's synthetic mechanized assault in the late Cold War. The scale of India’s tanks is huge, and there is no single situation where the infantry and self-propelled artillery are not matched. It is that quite a few countries are unable to complete the assault of a multi-arms combined force. Wang Ba moves forward with him to improve his mental safety.
Obviously, the order of K9 is not enough to cooperate with the number of assaults by the Indian armored forces. Its procurement requirements seem to be more likely to be the Pakistani troops, which have a higher degree of self-propelled artillery, throwing at each other on the Siachen Glacier and even along the Kashmir. Truth" to show friendship. With the purchase of the Indian Army in 2004, the AN/TPQ37 radar deployed locally may have an advantage in response speed.
The low logistic and synthetic assault capabilities caused the Indian Army, even the highly mechanized Western Front Heavy Group, to be quite different from the offensive capabilities and firepower projection rhythm of the end of the Cold War, not to mention the various changes after the Gulf.
As for the towed artillery of the Indian army. M777 will arrive at 120 gates by 2021. FH77B is in a worrisome situation. Danush has a bunch of strange conditions. The Indian Army’s best hope is to transform the M46 and leave the artillery division as soon as possible and use 130 (and maybe even D30 in service). ), as soon as possible all 155 cases.
As for the 105 or even 120 of the artillery of the division and brigade, take it easy.
All in all, the Indian Army’s main elite corps will probably be able to see the People’s Liberation Army eat the soil during the August 1st North China Exercise.
Go to the game activity first, fill in slowly.
The NGA gang said that the 6th round of tour must be able to lie to me
Ground air defense
As the father of most of the national army’s air defense systems, the equipment requirements of the Soviet Army’s field defense systems in the late 1980s are roughly like this.
Shoulder under the camp
Regimental air defense company: 2S6 Tunguska + Arrow series, ZSU-23-4
Division air defense regiment: Doyle 9m330
Group Army Air Defense Brigade: Beech 9K37
Theater air defense: S300
Indian field air defense:
The armored division is attached to the air defense regiment: Shileka/Tunguska m
The self-propelled air defense regiment under the air defense brigade directly under the army or headquarters: SA6+SA8/needle, SA8+Arrow-10M4, Tunguska+ZSU-23-4
There are also quite a few army air defense regiments equipped with Bofors 40mmL-40/70 anti-aircraft guns and individual Higuera-1
Even taking into account that India’s technical force and weapon density are not up to the cold war peak level, and its deployment front is small, the natural demand will not reach the level of the Soviet air defense requirements. The problem is that even if the standards are lowered, it is the most. The air defense system that can be regarded as a medium-range missile + short-range end is too thin.
In addition, the density of its weapons is too thin, and it cannot meet the parachute requirements of Soviet field air defense for battle groups. Coupled with the technical level gap, it can almost be considered that there is no fight back against medium and long-range strikes. Area air defense can only count on Air Force interceptors
Our army's field air defense system in recent years has gradually approached the Soviet level. The level basically corresponds, but there is still a significant gap in the number of weapons. However, most of the goose air defense units are still equipped with a distributed wheeled mobile surface-to-air missile system, or towed antiaircraft artillery. Its mobile response speed is still somewhat insufficient. Still poor. It can be said that Mao Zi’s purchase of inventory will double the level of our army’s active field air defense in terms of quantity and quality.
Not to mention that the Russian army's weapon density is higher due to the reduction in size and the renewal of weapons.
However, it must be said that the actual effect of ground air defense after the third-generation aircraft era is very suspicious.
The gap between the field defense air seals may be slightly smaller than the previous projects, but it is also a huge gap between normal people and the disabled.
In terms of air defense systems, India’s idea of buying Israel’s MRSAM system has become stale. The solution to turn back is to improve the S125 Pechora River System...
In the overall radar early warning system, the legal THD-1955 three-dimensional long-range surveillance radar and Soviet P-series long-range surveillance radars that can be used for long-range early warning interception are basically the essence of technology in the 1970s and 80s. The latest one that can play a role in remote early warning is this century. Turquoise radar purchased at the beginning. The quantity is insufficient, the technology is backward, and the state is worrying... well these three points can talk about almost everything.
Judging from the publicly available information, India cannot reach the level of national surveillance. However, even in the western regions that are heavily monitored, the number of radars and the way the entire surveillance system is deployed cannot reach the level of comprehensive surveillance.
A 2010 article in the National Defense Science and Technology Magazine described that the deployment of radar stations in India does not overlap in monitoring areas, and the distance between stations is based on the sum of the exploration radius. This deployment method will create a huge blank area due to the work of each radar station and the scanning deployment time. So for the time being I think it is doubtful (too stupid, very hard to believe.)
In short, India's entire air defense monitoring system has the opportunity to intercept key aircraft bombing attacks on airports or large cities, for air defense operations under high-intensity electronic warfare conditions, and even respond to ballistic missiles or various forms of off-zone attack weapons. I'm afraid I'm not strong enough.
Ground level of electronic warfare
India demonstrated the Sam Yukota electronic warfare system in June 2018. According to the situation reported by Sina, this is a defensive system for surface-to-air electronic countermeasures that looks similar to the Russian "car park" system.
According to the original text, the Sam Yukota system is a subordinate unit of a certain divisional signal battalion in India, but its range and frequency band exceed the division's combat range. It should be said that this is an experimental unit. The specific deployment level needs to wait for further work in India to be completed and announced.
In addition, the original text claims that in addition to electronic countermeasures, it also has command and communication functions, which is somewhat counter-common sense.
It can only be said that its theoretical range of action may reach 200 kilometers to interfere with UAVs. There are no specific technical parameters, difficulty, and key information. The specific technical level cannot be determined temporarily. But at least it has already started.
Indian Air Force
The Indian Air Force now has 34 squadrons as its main combat aircraft, each with about 18 squadrons. The Indian Air Force’s future demand is to expand to 45 squadrons. Considering the old aircraft that need to be retired within 10 years, India’s aircraft gap is as high as 400. This is something that India has been talking about since the beginning of this century.
But it started with the shrinking of the Rafale purchase plan. The Indian Air Force’s supplementary plan is a bit overhanging. Russia, the original source of fighters, is also in a period when the air force needs to be expanded and replaced. Although there are nearly three-digit new machine output each year, it is unlikely that there will be a surplus to meet Indian demand. And India itself impedes a bunch of complicated requirements for production lines and investment in arms purchases. After Trump took office, the purchase plan for the United States has been repeated too many times, and the public news has boasted a lot, and many need to be implemented.
In short, the structure of the Indian Air Force is likely to remain in the future. The MiG 21 and Su 30 maintain air patrols, and the Jaguar and Mirage 2000 are responsible for ground attacks.
In theory, the gust should be delivered in September this year, but from the hearing at the end of last year, it may be delayed due to political factors within India. Even if there is no delay, the delivery will be completed in 2022. The delivery is only the size of two squadrons.
The only surprise is that the gust of delivery completed can definitely guarantee its dispatch rate and intact rate (because according to the contract, the construction of the maintenance center and the maintenance itself are all done by Dassault, stay away from HAL to ensure safety)
Judging from the current degree of political hindrance in India, the possibility of purchasing new machines to fill the gap is not high. And even forcing the Indian Air Force to take the order of 100 glorious aircraft (the navy has clearly rejected the LCA boarding). With the glorious current production rate of 8 in 4 years, it is impossible to be an effective supplement.
So at least it now appears that the Indian Air Force has little hope of improving its situation.
Judging from the analysis of the recent conflict with the Pakistan Air Force, the Indian Army is capable of executing tasks for air supremacy or ground bombing on a squadron scale under the guidance of AWACS. Although there are many doubts in the process, at least the process can be completed.
It can be said that it is doubtful whether it can complete the Vietnam War level, multi-type and large-scale group attack, and attack the ground target covered by interceptors and air defense forces.
The comparison of the air combat records of the two sides is that the contingency is too great. In addition, the pure air-to-air combat is of little significance to the modern battle process, and it does not show the difference in standards between the two sides.
Taking into account that the Indian Air Force’s key mission area is not very large in Pakistan’s airspace, a squadron-level heavy fighter is sufficient to complete the task of fighting for air supremacy. As long as the army is guaranteed not to be bombed, based on the original experience, it is not a problem for the Indian army to overwhelm the Pakistani army with a key group scale. So it doesn't matter whether you can complete the composite air combat capability.
The PLA has few airports in Tibet. It can be said that in the short term, it will not have the ability to go deep into Indian airspace to fight for air supremacy. So at least from the perspective of the enemy, the current scale of the Indian Air Force is sufficient.
Indian Navy
In terms of long-term planning, the Indian Navy is an imitation American naval force that controls the Indian Ocean. If its shipbuilding plan is completed on time, this plan may not be empty talk. With two medium-sized aircraft carriers as the core, three Calcutta, three Delhi and six 11356+6 submarines, regardless of the US Navy, the PLA Navy cannot compete with the level of force that the PLA Navy can project into the Indian Ocean before 901 service.
But now it is almost 2020. With the support of the supply ship, the strength of a complete heavy aircraft carrier battle group cannot be sustained by the Indian Navy.
Therefore, although the Indian Navy may have the most reasonable plan among the three Indian armed forces, it still has the problem of being late for more than ten years.
Although its anti-ship force has a large number of ammunition, the number of firepower channels is low. At the same time, it can lead to weak blow.
Only the newly purchased P8 is the highlight
The air defense force has fatal flaws. Using the Barak 8 anti-aircraft projectile with the highest speed of Mach 2 (high throw) as the main force of regional air defense is definitely a rebate. In actual combat, the Indian Navy will definitely find that only the Shijili system can be used to face an anti-ship missile at the level of the Eagle Strike 83...
Indian Nuclear Force
According to the relevant public account, the website of the US Atomic Energy Scientist Bulletin published an analysis of Indian nuclear power in 2017. The number of bombs prepared by its space-based and sea-based nuclear forces is in doubt. Agni 3 equipment has no reliable designation. It can be considered that India’s mature and usable nuclear weapon projection vehicle is the Earth and Agni 2 level. In addition, because India’s 99-year nuclear test was not a planned and reliable nuclear test, and the service of its military vehicles did not complete the service of all test launches. 2 There are still test shots in 2017. The specific experimental subjects and validity are still questionable. Therefore, even if its nuclear weapon projection capability is the Agni 2 already in service, its reliability is still not worth overestimating.
Indian Paramilitary Force
India has the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), India-Tibet Border Police (ITBP), National Security Guard (NSG) and India's Border Patrol (SSB), etc. under the Ministry of Interior There are many paramilitary forces, and dozens of different paramilitary forces will not be repeated here. We are more familiar with the Assam Rifle Team, the Special Forces on the Border between India and Tibet (affiliated to the Indian Bureau of Investigation and Analysis, an intelligence agency. Although it has CIA funding, it is not as powerful as the Wild Wolverine Big National Will). The paramilitary and police forces directly under the central ministries have a strength of 940,000, and the total number of local police in various states has exceeded one million. The total number of paramilitary troops exceeds 2 million.
Most of the largest units of these forces are battalions, which are battalion→squadrons. Most of the equipment except light weapons has medium-caliber mortars. Even some troops are equipped with 105 howitzers, not just armed police, and most of them are responsible for regional garrison and counter-guerrilla tasks. The India-Pakistan firefight in the Kashmir region is reported in the news. Generally, the troops sent by India to fight against the Pakistani guerrillas are the Central Reserve Police Force. The Central Reserve Police Force is also generally responsible for suppressing the Maoist guerrillas.
At the same time, after the defeat of India in 1962, when the status of the military rose, the Central Reserve Police Force was given another task.
The military defeat caused a drastic change in the political status of the army, which almost turned over. Civilian officials can no longer interfere in the internal affairs of the Army. From now on, it is the politicians who should be obediently obedient, and they can no longer presume and give orders to the soldiers as they did in the past. Politicians are worried about the possibility of military coups.
Nehru mentioned in a letter to Russell in December that "the spread of military consciousness in India and the danger of military power growth." The Indian government has also formulated a plan to prevent soldiers from seizing power. In addition to being responsible for recruiting and training Tibetan refugees to return to the country for guerrilla activities, Bi Qi Patnaik was ordered to formulate a plan to deal with the coup, with the intelligence chief Malik acting as his deputy. Senior military officers were monitored and their conversations were tapped. According to a person closely related to these activities, even the conversation with the visiting Chief of Staff of the British Empire, General Sir Richard Hull. Eavesdropped.
Several secret service battalions of the Central Reserve Police are also deployed near the capital. A plan was also made to quickly send Nehru to a safe place in this ancient city and hide him in the event of a coup d’état, before the army has time to hijack Nehru.
In fact, these fears are unfounded, because the soldiers are very comfortable with their tasks, and they are especially pleased with the huge task of re-equipping and expanding the team. Even so, fear is still the truth, and it has always existed. This was fully demonstrated on the day of Nehru's death on May 27, 1964. On the same day, General Chowdhury, Chief of Staff of the Army, deployed thousands of troops into the capital to strengthen the security of the roads and crematoriums passed by the funeral procession. This makes Marek suspect that the coup will finally be launched, and the government has strengthened surveillance. After the funeral, Chowdhury lay down with heatstroke, which relieved the civilians. Later, Minister of Defense Chafan asked Chowdhury to explain the deployment of the army. Chowdhury pointed out angrily: Based on his experience at Gandhi’s funeral, he has good reason to believe that additional troops may be needed to avoid crowds and disorder. . As in the past, this was not only a false alarm, but also stupid and ridiculous. Some people say that this is related to Marek's private grievances against Chowdhury, because Chowdhury once criticized the Intelligence Agency for being responsible for the defeat in 1962; this statement may have some truth.
-"India's War against China"
I don't know if this unit is still tasked with suppressing the "Imperial Daoist" (laughs).
The scale system of the Indian reserve forces has no exact content, and there are too many conflicts, so I won’t repeat
India's military reform in 2017
In 2017, Indian Defense Minister Arun Jaitli announced India's military reforms during his tenure. Related content announced at that time included closing a large number of military operating facilities, including military dairy farms, and changing them to outsourcing, that is, the military must not...
In addition to the abolition of dairy cows, the Indian military postal system has been abolished and private mail services have been merged. It is worth noting that India at that time announced that it would reorganize the signal force to the direction of the air and ground guidance team. (However, judging from the announcement of the electronic countermeasures force in 18 years, the reorganization of the signal force may have added new content under the leadership of India's new defense minister.)
Although the ground strike models available to the Indian Air Force have various problems, they have thrown laser guided bombs in actual combat. Although it is impossible to achieve the air-ground coordination level of the US military in Afghanistan. But moving from the organization to the direction of air-ground coordination is, after all, the forefront of the world.
After India’s new female Defense Minister Nirmala Sitalaman took office, I don’t know the more detailed content of this specific military reform. However, from the news content, India's military reforms are also abolishing non-combatants and enriching the combat sequence. Increase the proportion of actual combatants. It shows that the Indian military has at least some understanding of its own problems.
At the same time, an Indian civilian military researcher wrote an article that the removal of the former Minister of Defense Arun Jaitli and the appointment of the former Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman as the Minister of Defense is part of the military reform itself. One of the major drawbacks of Indian national defense is that state-owned military industrial enterprises are too erosive. A person familiar with business must be transferred to rectify Indian state-owned military industrial enterprises...
This reason... is reasonable, well-founded and convincing. The DRDO and OFB, the Indian defense industry research and development organization, are definitely cancerous. However, it is known that in addition to India’s outsourced military industry, more non-state industries and international military industry are introduced. In addition to the introduction of technology through business contacts, there have not been any qualitative actions.
In short, India’s military changes have no problem in terms of direction, and concrete measures have a long way to go.
India's overall strategic thinking considerations
Beginning in 2004, the Indian army began to implement a "cold start" strategy, focusing on the western front, gathering heavy forces, deploying logistics materials forward, and concentrating its forces and firepower in the short term after the beginning of the war to wipe out the active forces in Pakistan.
It should be said that this can be regarded as a relevant strategy in line with the capabilities of the Indian army.
Relatively speaking, the Eastern Front and even the strategy for China, India is very likely to have no relevant plans at all.
Unlike the Western Front, which has all the armored divisions of the Indian Army and the reorganization of the plains infantry divisions, the Indian Army’s Eastern Command has 10 mountain divisions in the 4 squads. Only the 17th Army has independent armored brigades. There may be new armors in future plans. The brigade was formed, but the T72 tanks in its organization basically did not meet the requirements of highland combat (of course, neither did others).
In addition to the highly dense deployment of its mountain divisions in Sikkim, other troops are limited by geographical conditions and transportation environment. In fact, they cannot form a defensive line of defense and do not meet the requirements of a defensive arrangement to master the reserve counterattack in depth.
If India has defensive considerations in this area, at least it must deploy troops intensively in the border passage area, and deploy sufficient firepower and high-mobility counterattacks in the second-line deep area. The current deployment is more like a defensive force based on an even distribution of traffic lines.
In fact, the Indian army upgraded the border post from the platoon level to the company level and increased its manpower after the friction in the Donglang area occurred.
This is not unbelievable historically. Because historically India did this too. Before the counterattack in 1962, India had actually implemented a forward policy for many years, building a large number of fortresses to invade Chinese land, and deploying a large number of troops on the border. However, at this time, India still had no defensive plan, or a plan to deal with a large-scale attack. At all.
Even if the People's Liberation Army wins a large-scale battle, it is impossible to carry out long-term occupation due to logistical transportation restrictions and political restrictions. For the Indian ruling group, the casualties of the border war operations are nothing more than a ruling weapon to incite populism and hatred. As for who wins and who loses, public opinion can be reversed. They did this more than fifty years ago.
Many people can easily accept the saying that India promotes: China's communication lines are too long to resist India's counterattack, so China has to cease fire and retreat. As an Indian congressman put it, in fact, China’s withdrawal was "fundamentally out of fear." Later, people almost believed Nehru's words "China dare not face the unexpected indignation of the awakened Indian people", so they fled.
The Indian government announced that night that it had received the text of the Chinese statement, but the government spokesperson only said "Let's wait and see" without any comment. At that time or later, officials refused to confirm that the army had been ordered to observe the ceasefire. If a ceasefire has been ordered, people must think that this amounts to admitting that India has surrendered. On the contrary, the government worked hard to create the impression that India has just begun to fight. Nehru likes young people very much. On the day the ceasefire was implemented, at a rally of elementary school students, he once again said, "The war between India and China will be a long-term war. It may be delayed for a long time, or it may be delayed. By the time some of you have grown up to participate in this war."
Fifty years ago, Nehru was still recognized as a pacifist, but now the Indians in power facing China are good at inciting emotions, religion, and playing with nationalism. To put it in an inappropriate analogy, the Chiang Kai-shek government lost in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and can still go to Calcutta to continue claiming to insist on the War of Resistance. If the current Indian regime loses Mumbai, it is nothing more than chartering a flight to London to continue to incite the hatred between China and India. The face problem of winning or losing is gone.
In today's political environment where it is impossible to annex and occupy anymore, the purpose of political conflicts and even wars between China and India is nothing more than to resolve political disputes. What China wants is peace, because war cannot bring any benefits.
For India, even if it sets off a war against China, no matter whether it wins or loses, it will help to shift emotions, vent and win votes. The difference in the bottom line between the two sides caused different meanings of war. India can always insist on its anti-China stance because its ruler will not be fatally hit. China cannot stay tough.
Military operations must always achieve political goals, and achieving political goals must penetrate the bottom line that the other party can endure, and the other party does not...
So although the above mentioned, the military gap between China and India is generational difference, it can even be said that India is not as effective in building military power as Vietnam or North Korea. However, this strength does not bring the results that China wants.
Therefore, India's strategy is to gather strong forces to attack Pakistan and win capital in order to promote the country's prestige and gain capital.
you should advice this to your own soldiers first.
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