I don't query what you say but why are SAAB (and others I think) spending money pitching their wares, then?
They are that desparate.
That's a bad comparison. A majority of China's airpower is focused on taiwan not india. 56 F-35 will be a superior force than 40 J-35 Pakistan will supposedly buy and the few J-20's located in Tibet.
If we're talking a LSCO with China with 500 J-20 then everything would be shot down in weeks; be it all our antiques or 250 Su-30MkIs that we've kept upgrading continuously to Super Ultra Pro Max standard or whatever numbers of AMCA we'll theoretically produce in next 15 years. It's not a fact of how advanced J-20 is or the usual BS of F-35's kill switch or Su-57 being a cheaper...it's has more to do with the budget, infrastructure and first mover's advantage of China.
I am not considering Pakistanis having 5th gen for upcoming 5-8 years for various reasons. But I don't agree with China being focused on Taiwan. Its a tiny country can't last for 6 month if all out war broke out with all the help from Muricans which is questionable.
not really, With super sukhoi and AMCA combo they will have the capacity to communicate with every asset that we deploy. A fight with system of systems (what saurav jha mentioned @DDR)
There were reports that US asked India to join NATO last year but we declined for obvious reasons.. But my point was if we have to choose between F-35 and NATO. The later is more convinient and cheaper option.
I mentioned Super Sukhois as a sarcasm, not a fact
People already in NATO are thinking of leaving it and making their own security alliance and you want us to think about it? Without NATO we might face a battering defeat in the hands of China but with the current USA led NATO we'd get torn into West and East India like Germany.
We don't have SEAD component, we rather have "a component" of SEAD.
Again, we've excellent jamming pods in the form of DRDO's ASPJs but that's not a dedicated EW system; just one component of it.
China is preparing for a war against the Americans, a vast majority of their air assets are positioned towards the east, far away from India. There is not enough infrastructure near the border to support large air operations from China. Chinese jet's have to takeoff with less payload as well due to higher elevation of Tibetan plateau. We've only seen very small number of J20 in tibet. Fear mongering Chinese airpower in numbers doesn't make sense when logistically it would be near impossible for China to actually field that many fighters near India.
www.middleeastmonitor.com
China has 21 tankers right are now.
not decade 5 years. Its not like F35 will be delivered tommarrow.
You mean that Chinese made third rate Stealth fighters will shoot down the F-35 within a week……. Dream on.
