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Diplomatic messaging is fine, all countries do it in various forms. For diplomatic messaging and local consumption with the use of fighter aircraft with limited functionalities on, IAF can use the MKIs. After all, we have been told that the MKIs successfully dodged multiple AIM 120C5s. Why...

If the Chinese know the behaviour of MKIs and the IAF has lost faith in them, then for poster flights why would IAF further compromise their assets? The presence of ELINT assets would be known to IAF also. Further, i'm sure that PAF and IAF aircraft fly near the LoC quite often. The same would...

@Joe Shearer Thanks for your long replies. I do not hope to match your efforts (for example the arguments and counterarguments between you and @M. Sarmad). I would just like to say that i enjoy reading your replies because of their content. At the same time i would also like to say that you need...

Maybe because Vajpayee chose this step knowing the global standing that India had. The sad part, IMHO, is that this decision to take the high moral ground made us lose a lot of soldiers - something that the any developed self-respecting country would not have done. It just shows the scant regard...

@Joe Shearer What is your opinion of the news that we are reading that the Chinese have occupied heights in some areas? Is the situation the same as what Pak faces due to our occupation of Siachen glacier? Since the PLA might attempt similar strategies elsewhere, we might find it difficult to...

Dear Sir, Please don't embarrass me by apologising. I do know that you are given in to light sarcasm, and i didn't get particularly peeved with your reply.

Thank you Sir for your kind comments. In my sparse posts over the past many years, i don't think that i have even pretended to know a lot about military strategies and deployments. The presence of social media obfuscates the truth as much as absence of information used to a couple of decades...

Nonetheless, the amassing of PLA troops along the LAC forces India to follow suit. At a time when our economy is in doldrums, this will put a severe strain on our economy and armed forces. It will also dent our force modernisation plans.

Leave it Sir, he's way beyond your league with more positive ratings than you.

Sir, if there is such a simple counter to a claim about blackouts in Karachi, then even any correct stuff which you say will automatically be treated as less credible. Defence forums on both sides tell a lot of stories for various reasons. Unless you are in the loop (first-hand info, and not...

I was expecting this kind of an answer from most folks, nothing special as such, but anyways... Good day!

PAF Pilot "...may..day...may...day ...I been shot down by the ugliest man that I have ever seen... ...may...day...may...day...he did not even use a missile....at the very sight of his ugly mug my F-16 spontaneously exploded into a thousand pieces...may day..." The above is what you have written...

I was under the impression that westerners do not publicly utter racist comments.

And China is so powerful vis-a-vis India that if it decides to attack India, then we would be incapable of retaliating since we have a no-first-use policy? Pakistan, as you have admitted, has been the cause of loss of many American lives, and yet you have begun to support them.

Thanks for the info. Defence forums on both sides of the border have become echo chambers for each one's narratives. It is impossible to make out the truth except for people who actually know what happened. This is a sad state of affairs. The sudden purchase of more modern missiles by the IAF...

The category of higher kill probability? Even if not, can opposing fighters detect if the missile aimed at them has a higher kill probability?

Generally we do not have time to to good things. It is much more easier to do negative things in order to satisfy our fragile egos.

Hi, what is your take on the reason(s) for this? Do you see any changes in the future?

It is not acceptable. It is just that folks in the subcontinent are so disorganised and poorly trained that LCA is finally coming to fruition now. Hopefully we'll learn from our mistakes.