One thing i understood post op sindoor is the quality of discussion here is seriously low and downright ridiculous.
Imagine thinking any air defence is going to have a 100% hit rate against BM and hypersonic missiles. If you actually read the news by Israels own estimate they expected around 600 dead on the first night itself with close to a 1000 missiles being launched on day one. Technically damages and civilian casualties are war games beforehand.
Most militaries and countries around the word factor in civilian casualties as part and parcel of a wider conflict. Are people genuinely so stupid to think a saturated BM attack on Amritsar or Haryana would have no hits. Our AD mostly dealt with drones and 2-3 missiles along with aircraft and performed way beyond expectations but even with an integrated network a saturated BM attack would have definitely caused damages in Indian cities too.
I hope people here don’t shit themselves when Chinese missiles eventually end up hitting our posts and structures because these are expected in a conflict.
It is hubris to think Indian AD is in any way better than what Israel currently has. Also, not accounted in this assessment is that US directly defends them with THAAD and USN SM-3 SM-6. We only faced a couple of Fateh 2 and CM400, Fateh 2 was definitely intercepted over Sirsa but we don't know if CM400 was intercepted. Based on comments by ex IAF chief & Vishnu Som, CM400 missed S400 as it was relocated but some of them weren't intercepted.
Even with Counter UAS, we use AD guns and in large number like L70 but at the same time we lack something like Iron Dome system.
Re taking hits, good thing is India has geography and size on it's side, remember during first 7-10 day of Ukraine war Russia had launched more than 1000 Iskander and cruise missiles but Ukraine persevered, fought back and turned the tables.
I think during conflicts in India even such as Op Sindoor, Twitter and social media should be shut down. There should be a dedicated app for Government emergency broadcast messages. News channels during such days would only rely on an Integrated MOD and Armed Forces PR dept for conflict related information. Phones and SMS work as normal, day to day activities should go on unless they are under threat, the dedicated app based on phone location can notify people accordingly. Everything in India is politicized, I remember during Op Sindoor, it were mostly the same accounts that kept banging on for Deescalate earlier were later trending Indira Gandhi and asking why stopped fighting after ceasefire.
Pakistan current stocks also doesn't compare, they only had 60 CM400 before Operation Sindoor. Their ballistic missile inventory is also limited, less than 200.
PLA RF is a completely different story. One can assume that they can use 30-60% of their conventional arsenal against India in an actual full scale war. Rest will be kept in reserve for US and Japan contingencies.
