Well I just asked your education, not the whole comparision. I personally don't boast about IIT, college or university doesn't matter to me. I just asked your education because there are many teenagers around, that certainly kills the argument.
You can simply ask my age then. I am 29, Chinese national living, working in Australia.
Why are we spending so much? You have an Engineering degree still asked that question is quite disappointing. We are spending less than 3 % of our GDP. A 5th grade student would understand the simple concept but there are many on PDF who pillage the whole story, including you. Whereas defence spending of China is surely above 4 % of its GDP(can be more, no authentic data to support), there are many other countries, not to mention.
It is 100% OK for india to allocate whatever precentage of its own GDP to its defense.
The problem is why such build up should be publically described as against China.
In the past few months, we had at least the following craps from indian media or officials:
1. india can fight both pakistan and china at one time
2. india's anti missile technology is more advanced than China's.
3. india is going to have a military build up against China.
India wants China to be its enemy. This is my conclusion.
Gross Senile fantasy that India would loose everything and China won't, is sorry to say but just a fallacy. Even you know that, Obviously India will loose a greater portion compared to china, but I think you completely ignored economics as a subject while busy getting your PHD.
In general, india's economy is not remotely comparable to the Chinese one.
You need to understand one thing: our economy is about 3 times as larger as yours, and this is measured on the basis of our under valued currency.
Your's or any country's economy will severly get affected if participates in an obstreperous, full fledged war. Very easily you rubbished Agni 3, which has been tested 3 times, successfully. The day missiles come into picture there would be no China No India no Europe nothing.
No, this is not true.
1. Chinese have demonstrated the mid course anti missile technologies this year. India's Agni-3 will have to fly about
3000 KM to hit our population centres, like Beijing or Shanghai, this gives us enough time and space to kill it on its way.
But once we see those missiles in Chinese sky, we will fight back with hundreds of CJ-10 missiles fitted with nuke heads. It only needs to travel
300km to hit your capital.
Now you tell me which culture has the bigger chance to survive.
2. Agni-3 is considered as a failure by many Chinese military experts. If you look at our DF series, there is no any comparable missile that has such poor performance. The ones we developed in the 1960s/1970s are far better.
For example, the DF-3 missile which we built in the 1970s has a range of 4000km when carrying 1000kg payload (same as Agni-3). They were later replaced by the DF-21 missile which will again retire in a few years. The difference is DF-3 can carry up to 3 war heads, as of today Agni-3 never demonstrated such capacity.
80 DF-3 were sold to Saudi Arabia, meaning the quality and accuracy can be verified by external sources. Agni-3 yet to prove itself in this regard.
Even if Agni-3 has all the above bits, now let's face it: Agni-3 is comparable to the 1970s era DF-3.
About R&D.
What part are you boasting about China? JF 17? Congratulations, you just purchased RD 93 from Russia, trying to Phase out problems in your very own Engine. Your very dear Pakistan is looking for French Avionics, with no idea which BVR it is going to carry.
1. In terms of heavy tanks, which is always THE most important equipment for army, our Type-99 do not have any real enemy in Asia. T-90 is like a joke in front our 60t Type-99, in fact, we can easily handle your T-90s using our much cheaper Type-96a MBTs.
2. Most of the radar, missiles, sonar etc on our navy ships are now designed and made in China. The best example is the active phased array radar fitted on our Type-052c destroyers.
As of today, there is still another 10 years hard work for you guys to do to come up with something we entered active service 7 years ago.
3. Our airforce is operating in a completely different level. We recently had WS-10a engine combat ready and they have been fitted onto J-11B fighters. This means when it comes to war, we can produce as many of them as we want.
This concludes the comparison.