I hope all the branches of the Indian Military (IA, IAF, IN) are watching the Russo-Ukrainian war closely and taking lessons on:
"How to fight a war " &
"How not to fight a war." And most importantly
"How to not fuck up"
Hey Akim, did you know what was reported today? This is what is being fed to Americans everyday. Vladimir Putin's regime 'on the verge of collapse' as Russian troops slaughtered Vladimir Putin's regime 'on the verge of collapse' as Russian troops slaughtered (msn.com) Now back to reality.
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Just today morning, I woke up at around 3:15 AM, immediately opened twitter/X and saw "Su-57" trending, and it's getting more and more posts by each passing minute.
Went and clicked on it, and immediately tweets about Ukraine striking a parked Su-57 using a drone appeared on my X feed.
Mind you, this is not the first time that Ukrainian drones have managed to penetrate deep down inside Russia and hit targets.
Who is in charge of the RuAF? Who the hell thought that keeping a prized asset such as a Stealth fighter out in the open, vulnerable to drone strikes was such a good idea? On the contrary Russia doesn't even have enough Felons to make up a squadron, now according to reports more than one Su-57 was attacked, that's gonna cause a huge impact on the Su-57 fleet.
Lesson learnt here. This is what a military the size of Ukraine can do a military multiple times more stronger than it in terms of manpower, technology, then I shudder to think what will happen in a full scale war with both Pakistan and China at the same time.
In a full scale two front war, expect the Chinese to immediately send in salvos of drones and cruise missiles hurling towards our forward operating bases In war "no one plays fair". You can flaunt as many rafales, Tejas, Sukhoi, Mirages etc but what is the point of them when they are rendered useless because of them not being able to take off, of course we will do the same with PAF, first we need to destroy their runways to render immobile.
All our Aircraft, operating from forward operating bases (honestly, I think every air base in the Northern India) should be equipped with harderned bunker shelters.
Here is an Iranian F-4 in an underground bunker.
And most importantly, we need to improve on our air defences even more. Make it as hard as possible for any cruise missile salvo or drone salvo to reaching inside India extremely difficult.