Civilian Retaliation? That's a load of bull! No one writes such a doctrine. There are economic targets(cities) and military targets. You go after both of them, with priority to Military ones because of the obvious reason.
Maybe the Indians think that way, but not others. A nuclear war was...
India is no where near China. First of all, the Indian tests fizzled and the thermonuclear weapon failed to go off. Only the fission component gave a satisfactory bang!
Second of all, the most Indians can get out of the weapon is a 200kt nuclear weapon, that too it's all theory! The 45kt TN...
If this is posted already then my apologies.
TWR compared with constant weights.
T/W ratio = Max Thrust of Engine(s) / (Empty Weight + (3.505 tonnes of fuel & weapons, or only internal Fuel))
1.48 - F-15K
1.37 - F-22
1.32 - Su-35BM
1.29 - F-15C
1.26 - Su-27S
1.25 - Eurofighter
1.23 - Su-27SK...
With indians upgrading their 21s, F-7s are in a serious disadvantage. Also I saw F-7s have lesser engine power than migs. After all this time the chinese can't provide a better engine for their reverse engineered mig-21s. No wonder they are having trouble with su-27 engines. I think i have the...