Re: This chart shows the competition between India and China's submari
I would be more concerned with lack of mine clearing ships. Hope Navy and mod pays attention to that. Else india will be forced to use patrol boats for minesweeping.
We have to move slow, I think we should get airforce in check as that is only weak part of Land forces atm. Ironing out the rafale deal (cancel) and focusing hard on FGFA/T-50 with maybe heavier variant (it has 6+4 hardpoints vs 13/14 for rafale) for bombing will secure that front.
Then pour money into navy with 1-2 more Aircraft carriers (with tejas mk1/2 + super sukhoi on them) and 5-7 more subs/supporting ships to protect carriers.
Our main goal should be to keep persian gulf to straight of malacca free from foreign influence (NATO/China or US/CHINA)
That is lofty goal but yeah, we shoud also look at making a narrative of annexing Pakistan/Bangladesh to Sikhs or someone for 'protection of innocent muslims civilians, from extremeist ISIS/Taliban attacks for their differeing views on their religion'
I.e it is obvious Pak will ask for our help in bringing their women back, like Sikhs + Jassa Singh Ahluwalia vs Ahmed Shah Abdali (Durrani)
We should be prepared to project power from Hindu Kush to atleast Indonesia.