whats the use?
by kalyan ram on Jul 29, 2007 05:10 PM Permalink | Hide replies

whats the use of launching spy satellites to keep an tab on missile launches in our neighbourhood when our politicians and public dont have stomach to fight pakistan?...india focusses on balanced development of weapons, while pakistan identified india's weaknesses and developing rapidly in the key areas of weapons......for example india has large number of frigate and fighter ships, pakistan on the other bought the most modern subamrines and sea launching missiles to counter this threat....while india still contemplating of buying submarines.......even the US defence experts suspect that pakistan probably has more nuclear weapons than india....it outscores india in nuclear front tooo....and coming to missiles less said the better, every pakistan is launching newwer versions of missiles and sharpening their fire power, while india hesitating to improve their missiles and testing fearing international blacklash...and western defence analysts agree that pakistan has more modern air power and fighter aircrafts than india although india has large fleet of air crafts, they are MIG s bought in 1964 and are in expiry state and every month one MIG crash is a routine and imagine our aircrafts in a real battle.....

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RE:whats the use?
by kalyan ram on Jul 29, 2007 05:15 PM Permalink
and coming to our indian army , although indian army maintains 2:1 ratio vis pakistan....the indian army bases situated far and wide across the country and are slow in reaction to an immediate battle.....an indian defence analyst agrees that to prepare for a battle and move all necessary forces indian army atleast needs ONE MONTH....while pakistan although in small size can actually move quickly its army brigades along the battlefront than indian army

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RE:whats the use?
by vijay aralikatti on Jul 29, 2007 06:45 PM Permalink
In today's world, a full scale war between any two "sensible countries" will not happen. The situation in the world has changed a lot in the past 2 decades. All erstwhile enemies in Europe (and other parts of world) have become allies so much that they have common currencies too! It will be stupid to think about war with Pak or China. Our Armed forces are quite capable and the most important thing they have to maintain is being as technologically advanced as the advanced countries. Kalyan Ram you need to be think a little logical than writing all these stuffs.

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RE:whats the use?
by kalyan ram on Jul 29, 2007 07:19 PM Permalink
hey! check out the rediff archives in which one claerly states that US defence anaysts suspecting that pakistani nuclear weaapons are more than indian nuclear weapons.......about others you can check them in any western defence journal........iam only pointing out the loopholes in indis's defence preparedness so that they can be better prepared.....

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RE:RE:whats the use?
by kalyan ram on Jul 29, 2007 07:24 PM Permalink
if you see all the wars with pakistan right from 1947 to kargil.....you can see that pakistani army initially had upper hand......indian army was slow to react and lacks surprise element which is very crucial in wars.....and sino-indian war indian army was consistently inconsistent against maruading chinese army and had left north east ......aftre occupying north east the chinese surprisingly withdrew from north east but held its gains in ladakh.....otherwise we wont be having north east now.......

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RE:whats the use?
by Varun Shekhar on Jul 29, 2007 09:39 PM Permalink
That comment by the very sly American analyst was likely a ploy to get Indians to reveal more about their weapons and missiles. Indians have doen a pretty good job, on the whole, of keeping nuclear and missile information away from the prying eyes of Western/American interlopers. Pakistan being ahead just doesn't make sense, when you consider that India can build 220 MW and now 500 MW reactors on its own; can develop esoteric facilities like cyclotrons and synchrotrons and tokamaks, can test at low power a thermonuclear device. India also recently successfully tested Agni-3, which has a minimun range of 3000km.

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RE:whats the use?
by Rama Ganesh on Aug 16, 2007 04:08 PM Permalink
You are right, Varun. Most Paki missiles are bought off the shelf from Korea and they are mostly stolen property !!!! In contrast, the indian missiles are largely indeginous. Knowing as we do the quality of the Korean technology, it is anybody's guess how effective these missiles would be during real war time. However, I also agree that the concept of full-scale war has now been reduced to naught. With both countries armed with atomic weapons, only a mad-general in pakistan can trigger a nuclear war, which is unlikely. But the Indian atomic program is far superior, and I don't think we need to take the reports originating in the western media about the possible pakistani superiority seriously. The size of Pakistan should by itself act as a deterrent for the launching of a nuclear attack. One thermo-nuclear device would be enough to wipe out the whole of pakistan and the after effects would be catastrophic, both for Pakistan and India, and for the whole world. Only someone absolutely insane could think of the possibility of a India-Pak nuclear conflict.

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