Ghanta time and cash. Stop rotating around Pakistan. Pakistan is done. We have to build our doctrine around China. And they have a defence budget thrice the amount we have and they don't waste a single minute of time.
Y-20, J-20, Z-10,T-99, marine S&R plane. All of these are completed way faster than their estimates. Their drone programmes are way ahead of ours Their artillery and rocket regiments are bigger and technically advanced than ours. They are building Corvettes like there is no tomorrow. We don't have an A-SAT weapon. And I don want to comment about their missile programme. They reverse engineered the s-300 and made hq-9s like a fucking rat breeds it's offsprings and they have copied French SAMs. They are making money over their copied machinery.
We need to shun this "time and money concept". These guys need to be held by a noose around their necks and made to work.
The only area they are lagging is the development of engines for their fighter planes.
Well I was not comparing to Pakistan, China is taking a different approach they are building air frame for their stealth with most of the tech they already have and they will be upgrading them to 5 gen as their sub system programs run parallel. India too learnt their lesson after then ALH Druv disaster that not to go with too many new tech for e.g. the ARES system which ran for 10 min. India will also take the same Chinese route in this case of 5th Gen.
We have 5th gen program too like china, we have tank program too the only place where china is venturing ahead is with their transport plane and just because they have a prototype does not mean all the sub system are made in china or they have mastered the tech.
Our Artillery and rocket regiments are also catching up, Their Navy is the one I was worried about too but bare in mind that our policy marker are also watching china that's why you see sudden increase of interest in Indian Navy.
A-SAT tech is available, but the test will bring unwanted attention, We have radars that can monitor a satellite and a missile that can hit it. All that is required is system integration and testing.
Well look at china economy and look at ours, they have more and better testing facility then we do, they have more engineer and scientist then we do and their programs are much better funded.
At the end of the day we are not in any kind of cold war, China is an responsible nation and we can do more damage to their economy then they can do to ours, just by declaring a war their shipping insurance will go high and the so called competitive prices of their product will take a hit. Indian shipping insurance will also go high but then how much India is know as export oriented economy ?
