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HAL had offered 72 more Su-30mki last year but I think IAF will never consider that. Building same model without any upgrades is useless.
 

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MEA conference going on, bragging about UNSC seat xD
Excuse the ignorance, what was particularly notable about this particular election for two years. Was it the duration, or simply that any election to the UNSC is prestigious? India has served as non-permanent member before, sure of that. This time, it's getting quite a bit of publicity and praise from even non-Indians. It's a good development, without a doubt.
 

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Revisiting Mountain Corps to deter China

Had India supported the sanctioned raising, 90 per cent capability would have been achieved by now, which could have been an effective deterrent, definitely raising costs for incursions by China. The raising, however, was not backed by the sanctioned financial resource and thereafter finally put on hold in 2018.


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It was precisely to create this ‘offensive (active)-defence’ capability that the Army, in the first decade of this millennium, sought the raising of a Mountain Corps, commonly referred to as the Mountain Strike Corps. The intent was to have a dedicated Corps to comprehensively look at the operational dynamics of the entire border with China, collate the entire ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) canvas of Chinese activities, provide acclimatised battle-ready formations, with inbuilt rapid air mobility to respond to situations, like the current intrusions, for effective and equitable quid pro quo options. The aim was to create capabilities to enable military-diplomatic negotiations from a position of relative strength. The Mountain Corps, once fully formed and operationalised, would have given multiple military employment options with integral ISR and rapid deployment capabilities exploiting mountain-specific platforms like ultra-light howitzers, helicopters (including heavy-lift ones like Chinooks and attack helicopters like Apaches), UAVs, missiles etc. It would have also enabled synergising the asymmetric warfare means. Notably, this geographically unified structure was proposed ahead of China creating the Western Theatre Command in 2016.

The overall intent was to induce an element of ‘active-defence’ rather than any aspirations of a deep offensive capability along the LAC. The Corps, trained and equipped for operations in mountains, would also be effective against Pakistan. The ‘strike’ part of the nomenclature was misconstrued and used as a propaganda tool by certain inimical elements to stymie the complete raising. The Army’s quest for this critical capability, against China’s coercion, was put through intense scrutiny by the National Security Council, Chiefs of Staff Committee and across Service HQs. Various alternative options were also considered: building maritime capability instead of land-based Corps, induction of long-range missiles, and raising of Special Forces units to interdict lines of communication. The option of raising small-size formations instead of a Corps was also considered. Despite the sound operational rationale, the underlying concern that remained was the financial consideration of raising and sustaining a formation of nearly 90,000 men.
 

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Excuse the ignorance, what was particularly notable about this particular election for two years. Was it the duration, or simply that any election to the UNSC is prestigious? India has served as non-permanent member before, sure of that. This time, it's getting quite a bit of publicity and praise from even non-Indians. It's a good development, without a doubt.

Security Council temporary membership is a joke. Countries like Sudan, Liberia, Honduras have been members in the past. Permanent membership is what really matters.

The celebration is just a PR exercise
 

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this guys have a point. i felt this when i read the tweet..
press like if u agree


It is also prudent to understand what got us here, WRONG CHOICES made in the past both by public and people in power.
past has already been written, we came only change the future by making the right choices from now on.
 

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