Pakis are a low bar to surpass.
If you have the mindset to numbers-maxxx like the Indian Navy even if the equipment is not besht in wurld impoort but "good enough" it's enough to have a an unassailable advantage over them.
IN's advatage over PN is so decisive that they have given up on ((( parity ))) with surface fleet and now are trying to subs-maxxx with bheek of Chowmein paijaan
Any disadvantages vis a vis them is because certain genrols are obsessed over very specific gold-plated imports even at the cost of numerical advantages.
Even so these dis-advantages aren't fatal as Op Sindoor has shown, niggas here were dhoti-shivering over their "9 white awacs of ola" and one gets bund-blasted in hangar and another eats the biggest S400 missile in their own airspace, and this is aside from them being showered in
The impetus to build domestic industry and R&D is to get
parity with China atleast numercially in as much whatever they throw at us.
Because we will face an "industrial war" with Chongs in the future, it is inevitable.