Why not thread the needle and pick the average of this astounding analysis....i.e 11 hours!
Gonna steal a
@PanzerKiel quote too:
"c'mon man"
@Joe Shearer 
Oh, man.
Just finished writing a narrative about a fiercely fought battle. About soldiers whose bunkers and trenches were overrun, and still fought back. About soldiers fighting them whose tanks were blown up, one after another, in front of them, and still fought back.
And you tag me for this ludicrous thread by some keyboard kiddy who had an empty twenty minutes to fill.
What did I do to you? Why are you making me read - what do I call it without getting kicked in the arse by
@LeGenD - 'stuff' by
@AZADPAKISTAN2009?
It's a rough transition, from trying to pore through a dozen books, to figure out which formation provided the tanks for their attack on the 8th, to a post that says
Now the Indians are stuck in Knee deep in Srinagar pretty much 70% of their force
What did I do to you,
@Nilgiri, to deserve this?
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I am writing this out of respect for
@LeGenD, and NOTHING MORE. That member whose posts have edified us for more than a decade, not the Moderator. Out of respect for my own time and limited time left to do these things, I will not answer frivolous idiots. Or frivolous idiocies.
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The facts:
- How many soldiers and armed policemen in Kashmir has no bearing on a discussion, however wildly unlikely, on how many hours to total the Indian Air Force.
- For the record, and for the sake of the mighty irritation that it caused me to see the crap being shovelled around, please consult widely available orders of battle available as open source information.
- The Vale is handled by one (1) Army Corps, XV Corps.
- It has less than 10% of the fighting strength of the Indian Army.
- It also has, at any given time, units of the Rashtriya Rifles, who together consist of 50,000 soldiers, about three (3) divisions worth of soldiers, not attached to any of the regular divisions.
- The Jammu region, lower down, has the strongest Corps of the Indian Army, XVI Corps.
- Kargil is monitored by one (1) Division.
- Siachen is monitored by one (1) Brigade.
- That division at Kargil is part of another, separate Corps, XIV Corps, that has the task of guarding Kargil, guarding Siachen and guarding the Line of Actual Control.
- XIV Corps has recently been reinforced. Troops have been moved in,
- some from the RR units, who are regular soldiers on deputation from their formations to the RR, and who are not needed at this quiescent state of the Vale,
- some others from units not responsible for either the LOC, the international border with Pakistan or the Line of Actual Control with the PRC in Ladakh, or the MacMahon Line;
- Their numbers and particulars are not relevant to the discussion, even peripherally.
So much for that 70% metric.
@LeGenD
@dbc
@AgNoStiC MuSliM
Dear Gentlemen,
There are certain posts and certain members whom I shall never give oxygen; never give them the acknowledgement that they crave.
Questions have been raised about the fighting spirit of Indian aviators, and I submit my contribution to the discussion through these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirmal_Jit_Singh_Sekhon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajjamada_B._Devaiah
These issues are the kinds of innuendo and petty insult that the ignorant peddle. The central issue is the outcome of a conflict between the PLA AF and the IAF, in a limited-scope conflict, and in an open and unlimited war, or even a war with two adversaries in the field. Those need detailed discussion, so it is better to separate them out and put them in a separate post. Please bear with me.
