Oh I dont judge the entire Army. Just Ofsars above a certain rank because then they turn into Politicians anyways. ofcourse there are exceptions like our current CDS.we cannot be good judges of the ENTIRE Army.
Let me tell you a story. few months before Kargil the Indian Army Wargamed a senario with Pakistan at Corp level. a Young Enthusiastic officer employed an unconventional Tactic as the OPFOR and defeated the IA side of war gamers. the Referee's deemd the young officers strategy as a cheat as nobody in their right mind would pull such a strategy. Few months later that was EXACTLY how the Pakistani's occupied the highest overlooking Kargil.
Tell me does the current Small Purchase program inspire confidence? The Fact that we are upgrading our BMP's to 2000 levels only after realizing Oh SHIT we may have to fight an actual war against China?
Hell there is ample evidence of a faction within the Army that Sabotaged the Arjun tanks for YEARS during trials. Only stopped with DRDO finally put a blackbox inside to record data.
Lets face a large chunk of our Army Headshed is risk averse. You can see the pattern in a whole bunch of things including Calling in a SF Squad every time you have militants trapped inside a CASO Ring. I truely believe 30 years of fighting COIN has made us rusty. Zero forward thinking.
The world just witnessed a whole war fought and won quickly using cheap Swarm drones made by Turkey. Do we not think they can find their way to the jihadis in Kashmir? We needed a strike at an AF installation to wake up?
On the other hand i admire the AF. They know they will take decades to come to 42 Squadrons. If they manage 36 by 2030 itself will be a huge fleet. They know they will have to look at China and Pakistan together at the same time as well as keep the coast safe. Keep in mind that the Chinese could pump out ~200+ J-20s in a decade. How do they (IAF) achieve it with No money or MIC to support them. They are turning to value add enablers like the Stealth CATS Drones Program interlinked with a Mothership (LCA/MKI) and Swarm Drones as force multipliers. Evens the odds alot.
The AMCA tech domonstrator + the CATS program could actually allow us to leapfrog from the LCA mkII to a 6th Gen UCAV
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