Educated people in India do know that India is not ready for war. There is nothing knew here.
Only retards like you think educated people know anything. Intelligent people know, not educated ones. Even idiots can be educated.
Secondly, India is not ready for war to avoid causing panic in other countries and hence continue with the current global economy. If India needs to be ready, India can be ready. But it is ill advised as if now.
India hasnt been optimal for war for long time - honestly when was it ever? So much time was wasted from the 90s to even the last congress terms. A lot of the things that are being bought were needed back in the 90s. Things make it worse with corruption, red tape, and geopolitics getting into the procurement process. Plus you have these monoply defence entities stifling it's growth, putting out low quality, expensive, and are non innovative, lethargic in nature. Pakistan have been lucky for a long time.
Good news is, things are changing. Maybe not the geopolitic part, now the private sector are on board, and I truly believe they can change how defence and aero are handled in India.
It is irrelevant whether private sector is there ir not. India is capable of war but chooses to not increase its arms procurement. Wars are always fought on Indigenous resources and technology. India has sufficient technology indigenously like Su30 and Tejas, artillery, MPATGM, nuclear submarine, missiles, satellites etc. But India doesn't have Petroleum. This means that yo be ready for war, first thing India will have to do is start coal liquefaction. If India does that, Middle eastern countries and Pakistan will panic and hence India is not intentionally using coal liquefaction. Without coal liquefaction, India will.not have indigenous fuel to fight war and hence nearby rivals can be assured if peace.
I do not see any change.
There is no urgency being shown by this government even for critical procurement.
Kamov-226 , MMRCA, Super Sukhoi, S-400, RAFALE, Tejas MK1A etc.. all are delayed
What is critical in these? Critical procurement is where critical technology is involved. Things like SSN submarine, Indigenous diesel submarine, MWF and Rafale indigenisation, ATGM, artillery etc.
India can't simply magically make these technology development. Even if developed, they have to undergo user trials in vigorous condition which will take time. India can use half baked items but doesn't see the urgency in doing so by compromising reliability for speed.
India is doing the best it can to develop absolutely robust defence equipments and indigenisation and hence chooses to go slow and steady yo ensure reliability.
S-400 and Rafale are just on paper.
It will take another 5 years to operationalize S-400.
Indian enhancements for Rafale will take another 3 years.
Russia offered S-400 back in 2014 and Modi just sat on the offer for 5 years.
Same is happening with Super Sukhio and FGFA.
IGA for Kamov was signed over a year ago. Everything is ready but Modi will not close the deal.
BJP's performance with regards to defence is pathetic.
All the defence budget we had was spent on OROP to buy the votes and the result is that now there is no money for capital acquisitions.
Low IQ people like you shouldn't talk nonsense. Talking of imported items as some critical need is extremely stupid. War requires quantity and that can come only with indigenisation. India as of now has one generation older items and hence wants to get latest items indigenised instead of adjusting with whatever it has just for speed. This is causing slowness.
Rafale is slowly procured as India wants 100% indigenisation and fitting of Kaveri engine in Rafale. France has agreed to it (France had fitted F404 in Rafale in 1990s and hence can fit Kaveri now) bit is taking time. This is not foolish delay but quite intelligent one. Similarly S400 has some technology transfer and not simply another import. This again takes time.
India doesn't intend to be ready for war as of now bit only be operationally ready for limited skirmish. This is because of international understanding about the panic that may be caused by Indian buildups and trigger preemptive attack or destabilisation of middle east oil supply.
The biggest insurance that Middle east have about Indian non-aggression is that India has not started coal Liquefaction. More than any equipment, it is the fuel that will be most critical in war. So, as long as India doesn't start coal liquefaction, one can simply discount the possibility of India arming up for war.
Indian objectives is yo simply get time without any sabotage and will respond proportionally to any aggression. Only if India notices big build ups, India will go for full war preparation.
several high end US equipment and assembly lines, offsets going India's way that are susceptible for sanctions simply due to that purchase. Hell, Tejas program can have heart attack right now if engines werent supplied. Spares for C17, Super Hercules, Apache, Chinooks and all the offset partners can go to hell, simply due to that purchase. That program wasnt just between India and Russia, that's for sure.
India has completed Kaveri engine and it can have 52kN dry and 81kN wet thrust. France has audited it and cleared it for flight testing to prove its reliability. India can replace F404 with Kaveri by losing about 300-400kg of payload carrying ability in Tejas. India can still have payload of 3.5 ton pn Tejas with Kaveri engine, down from current 4ton. But that is still good enough to fight. India intends to completely stop Tejas MK1 and go for MWF in future with Indigenous 110kN engine. So, India doesn't want to spend extra time fitting Kaveri when the program is anyway nearing and end after 123 plane production
India doesn't get any high end technology from USA. Only important item India gets from USA is F404 and now Kaveri is complete and hence even that threat is minimal. Moreover, India gets some technology transfer from S400. Indian NSA has told that India doesn't buy any imported arms without technology transfer. So, the deal is not simply purchase of some toys
That goes out for both the warring nations. Both of the nations could be ready to wage war within moments.
Do you not remember the time when Lahore was attacked in the middle of the night? Did you not see when the Indians were fully "ready & prepared" and the defenders of Lahore were taken by surprise yet they succeeded in the defence?
The point is, that for both the nations, circumstances for war could be created out of thin air even if none of them is prepared, if Allah has destined the two nations to fight again.
There is a difference between operational preparedness and preparedness to invade and for war of attrition. Both countries are prepared in proportion to each other's preparation in terms of quantity. But India won't go for full preparation and risk panicking middle east and hence risk oil supply and global economy.
There is nothing to gloat about India not being prepared for war or nothing yo be ashamed of. The situation today is mainly dependent on oil trade and hence one has to tread with caution. Oil is concentrated disproportionately in Arabs area and hence some restraint will be shown out of respect for the oil, not respect for the people