Pakistan gaining military edge over India

[Leviza]

While India keeps cancelling and re-issuing RFPs endlessly, Pakistan is forging ahead on a war footing. They are ahead of India in the following:-

1. Howitzers

India has been dilly-dallying over artillery guns for close to 30 years since the Bofors scam. Pakistan has inducted U.S. made M-109 howitzers.

Indian Express: United Nations data reveal that delivery of the M-109 A5 self-propelled artillery guns took place last year. The guns were transferred under the US Foreign Military Financing (FMF) programme that was granted to Pakistan for the fight against militant groups on its border with Afghanistan. Experts say these M-109 A5 155 mm howitzers give Pakistan a definite conventional edge over the Indian Army that is years away from induction of similar systems. Full news

2. UAVs
The game changers in the ****** war are the future of any credible Air Force. But PSU infighting delayed India's plan for 4 years. Recent articles on 8ak noted that Pakistan has started drone production with Selex Galileo.

3. Fighter Jets
While our military aircraft crash at a rate of 1.5 a month means a constant grounding of fleets (the Sea Harrier fleet is grounded after last weeks crash), Pakistan is upgrading their F-16s to the latest Block C/D with a little help from Turkey. Russia has also given the go ahead to China to give Pakistan the engines for the JF series fighter aircraft.


4. Motivation
The Pakistani people are united, not by their nationality, but by their religion and their constantly-re-inforced-by-the-mullahs/government view on Kashmir. Add to this the combat experience they are gaining in the ****** war and one can see that they would be a formidable force.

5. Funds
While India's budget is larger thanks to a better economy, Pakistan gets billions in equipment and training from the U.S., China and Islamic sympathisers like Saudi Arabia.

The list could go on to include helicopters, missiles, nuclear weapons. But at least India has the Arihant submarine. Well not exactly. Strategy Page article says that the Arihant was launched without a working reactor to scam the public in to believing that the government has something to show after sinking billions in to those projects.

 

[karan.1970]

looks like an Indian article..

 

[Leviza]

 

[Leviza]

looks like an Indian article..

yes it is and indians knows that Pakistan army is way ahead then indians

 

[karan.1970]

Congratulations...

 

[Gucci]

currently india is busy in replacing the old soviet tech.

 

[sasuke]

I don't see any signs of war between the two countries in near future ... so I think India has the time to cope up on several factors...

1. UAVs - India is inducting Israel drones ... and few are already operational.
2. Fighter jets - for the time being Su30 MKIs are the main stay of IAF ... I think since they need to guard only the western front ... the present squadrons should be enough.
3. Motivation & Funds - Patriotism runs in the blood of citizens of any country. You can't quantify it. Funds - India has sufficient money to fund the deals if it feels necessary.

Howitzers is something that will trouble Indian Army for sometime... I don't think we will be able to get them for at least 5 years.

Arihant - If the reactor isn't installed then the hull has to be cut again to install a reactor ... will anyone be that stupid?

 

[FreekiN]

are you shitting me?

brahmos > babur

su30 > f-16

JF-17 = MIG 29/ Tejas

and we hardly get anything from the US anymore.

There is only enough hardware for defense instead of offense.

 

[Tayyab1796]

I m only convinced by one fact out of this article and that is that Pakistan Army/air force's fight against terrorists is gaining them good combat experience , Having been a solider myself and keeping close watch on military developments around the globe i can honestly tell u that a veteran solider is much better placed in combat(even if he has relatively outdated arms) then a fully armed to-the teeth adversary with no combat experience. Indian units fighting against Maoists are (i hope) gaining good experience as well.

 

[Masterchief]

india is way ahead than pakistan regarding air and naval power , although if we compare army both nations are almost evenly matched, the analysis could have been much better, and regarding taking motivation as a factor , only motivated guys are selected in armed forces here, a brain numbing 5 days test is done in india to select officers( its one of the hardest test in the world for armed forces), and an even harder test is taken to select the NCOs(non commisioned officers) the selected guys are already heavily gritted and motivated.

 

[diva]

Oh congrats to PA finally they have edge over IA.... Hope all Indians members will share my view.

 

[Masterchief]

I m only convinced by one fact out of this article and that is that Pakistan Army/air force's fight against terrorists is gaining them good combat experience , Having been a solider myself and keeping close watch on military developments around the globe i can honestly tell u that a veteran solider is much better placed in combat(even if he has relatively outdated arms) then a fully armed to-the teeth adversary with no combat experience. Indian units fighting against Maoists are (i hope) gaining good experience as well.

its the CRPF fighting the maoists, army provides CRPF the training , indian army has a school dedicated to warfare techniques and strategies and the infantry regularly takes part in ground combat exercises to keep them ready

 

[Awesome]

Pakistan is gaining in the sense, that despite any and all setbacks, India is still nowhere near mounting a capability of invading Pakistan and Pakistan's military strategy revolves around defence and not offence.

Not to forget that the military doctrine however states that if war is imposed we will take the fight on enemy soil.

 

[sssss]

Well ,when i saw the reasons supporting the thread title,i was just like BAH!
2 minutes wasted.

Yaar,again i ll have to say,we are 2nd largest army,4th largest Air force 5th largest Navy and second fastest growing nation,do we really need to compare Pakistan with us?

 

[Gucci]

india is spending high on air force,navy but not on army.they always get the cancelled deals.