Time frame is contingent on the type of warfare that India wants to impose. Whether she will throw in full force or hold some back as Reserves and cover its Chinese flank. 72 hours is not enough for IAF to implement Air Supremacy, you might be confusing IAF with the USAF. in this scenario. IAF lacks the effective punch and hammer to knock out PAF in a 72 hours timeframe, PAF has enough Assets in its disposal to go head to head against the IAF for at least 2 weeks. A realistic timeframe would be 2-3 weeks to seriously degrade PAF's fighting capabilities, but than again that is a red line for Pakistan.
Well, don't know about what you are blabbering about Pakistan assets.
But allow me to answer your question.
Paf certainly doesn't have any assets which won't allow IAF to capture air supremacy.
Pakistan has 70 f16 and some jf 17.
Well I don't know but everyone here thinks that all the jfs will go to air force and will be stationed to service paf, but they are not, one or two squadrans will ho to PN in case of war but that is not the case with IN.
Pakistan has 70 f16.but all will not be operational ready so take at least 4p to 50 be ready for war which will be against Indias 120 to 140 sukhis
So unless you have superman I don't think that they can stop su with such a small fleat.
Now I have totally taken out MIG29UPG which are no1 in might series with BVR and made by keeping f15 in minds by soviets let alone hunting f16.
Now then I will turn to mirage 2000 upgraded which also carry BVR capabilities after upgradation and new avionics and EW suites, now coming to one more upgradation we forget one aircraft in India and Pakistan scenario which is jaguar, after upgradation with new engines, EW, new radar and extra payload carrying capability it will be world class aircraft, but all of these are out of scenario, so even though these are out of scenario I am yet to find out how PAF will deny them the air superiority.
A very valid argument in my opinion from
@MastanKhan . For a blockade to be be effective, IN needs to effectively implement a blockade for at least a month to cause serious consequences for Pakistan. Pakistan has more than enough reserves to withstand 2 to 3 days of blockade. But overall, i doubt it if IN can effectively implement a blockade against Pakistan because it will need lots of ships and spread them out thinly to implement a blockade, and will be under constant threat of harassment from PN's ASM which are very effective. Second, does India has the will to board and seize a Chinese or American Flagged Merchant Vessel. I highly doubt it.
Second, i fail to see how IN will effectively neutralize PN in 2 to 3 days. You would have a point if both the Navies slug it out in the Open Seas in which case the IN will clobber PN within a matter of hours. But within its own waters, PN has very impressive Area Deniability Capabilities. A tactic largely mimicking PLAN's strategy of dealing with USN in the South China Sea. IN will loose far more ships in this quest than it will sink.
First of aPakistan lacks area deniability capabilities. The term area deniability Is a big word and it needs a good surface fleet. Which you lack by a large margin.
Let me tell you IN doesn't need to send its well recognized ships it just has to send its OPVs equipped with Bramhos to PN f22p along with 4 scorpenes, 2 corvettes and a shivalik class or Kolkata class destroyer, also to ho with them 2 P8I. The first line will consist of OPV with Ashm that too whose antitode can't be seen in any surface ship of world so let alone Pakistan fleet(well first you should have fleet). That can take care of f22ps if your submarines engage the OPVs then it is good for our two corvettes and a destroyer if not then it is good for our OPV to engage the f22ps in numbers.
Actually we are missing a game changer here which India has acquired.
Nope, not nuclear SSBN but ACTAS, well it is a sonar but so much powerful which decide the fate of underwater vessels, before India had humsa ng which can only detect the submarines in waters which are not salty but after addition of ACTAS, IN has gathered good defensive and tracking system. ACTAS are force multipliers. Actually when the plans of PN buying submarine was going on I always wanted the PN to go for submarines and thats what they did. Because Indian Navy strenght lied in its Underwater capabilities and ASW. Because India was preparing its ASW warfare in Jeeping China in mind and their submarines so IN has a good ASW capabilities.
If you compare Kolkata class destroyers with type 52 you will find that Kolkata passes good in marks in ASW and type 52 in AAW. Indians corvettes were primarily made for ASW roles. Now with addition of ACTAS IN has good antidote for your submarines prepared.
At last we are missing upgraded KILOs of India which have cruise missiles capability which pakistan doesn't have.
A blockade can only be set up when the opposition navy is neutralised so after neutralizing your navy IN will blockade your country for n number of months if it wants. At last I don't want to count the deceased and wounds of op trident and op python.
Pakistani's on average are more worried about putting food on their tables and making sure their kids get a good education. India is the last thing on their minds.
But isn't he saying that "every Pakistan wakes by reciting jihad and want to conquer India" like stuff.
Conventional Superiority is there, but not to the degree that India will dominate the battlefield. This is not WW2 that Massed Forces will be fighting against each other, more like Armoured Formations in smaller numbers will be duelling each other. For now and in a short conflict, PA's Armoured Formations can go head to head against IA's Armoured Formations, there is nothing that India has in its Combined Armed Formations that can dominate the day for India. India lacks the hammer to defeat either PA outright in the battlefield. India certainly had that hammer and a very impressive one. Smerch was a complete game changer in my opinion, it allowed the IA to smash any PA's Armoured Formations from stand off ranges without the risk of counter batteries. This threat has been nullified as PA now fields A-100, which exposes the Smerch to counter fire. It is only attrition that will defeat Pakistan, not a battle.
Actually if we go in armoury than India and Pakistan have equal technology. But where Pakistan fails is the numbers game. Its all about numbers game. India has tanks in numbers above 2500+ and are going for more upgraded one.
The T72 are going upgradation.
Well if we talk about BMP2 then they are in 1250+ are going upgradation with night vision and, ATGM, and other features, improved automation too.
Also the bigger question is the disparity in number of armed forces.
1.3+ million personnels against 0.6 million personnel's.