If money and geopolitics is not a constraint, everybody would have bought f22 and reapers
Bro please do some googling 😀
Type 003 will be operationally deployable somewhere in 2029 or 2030 as most of its systems are new including EMALS
All these capabilities will be operational only after type 003 becomes operationally deployable.. now you can calculate how many years we are talking about
China does not have any carrier borne AWACS as of now. they are developing KJ-600 which will operate in their Type 003 carrier, many years from now -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2020/08/29/first-image-of-chinas-new-carrier-based-aew-plane/?sh=45ad009b7723
Chinese J15 operates below...
China does not have a carrier based AWACS, their carrier borne fighters from the ski jump carrier can't operate with more than 40% of the payloads and their battle group will be constantly monitored by Indian Navy.
At best, their fighters will be providing point defense over the battle group...
and where would they fight the Indian Navy? definitely not in SCS, but somewhere in Indian Ocean region right?
forget about the Indian Navy, but Indian land based assets will be more than enough to take care of this Chinese firepower, where they will not have any replenishment ports for...
agree, not in normal circumstance, but we are talking about hypothetical war between China and US and the possibilities in that context
dude, where did the Indian AF refence come from ?
By simplification of the same logic a sqrdn of F16 or F15 will be enough for the US to finish off the...
Hitting few terrorist camps with standoff weapons is very different from mounting a preemptive counter force strike. Nobody in today's world will get away with this kind of decisions. either governments know that very well.
In all possibility, both India & Pakistan will fight conventionally...
The point I am making is - the biggest deterrent for either china or US is their respective abilities to hit each other back. in that context, US still have much superior ability to punish china away from its home coast lines. China has done tremendously well to build up a great Navy, but what...
In my understanding, Pakistan does not face any risk of a nuclear preventive strike from India. India will never take that risk of killing its global standing, nor do it needs to do that given its conventional military superiority.
However Pakistan definitely faces the risk of a Nuclear...
Painful truth for some here. The only way enemies of china will stop it is by developing capabilities to punish china the same way..
Hypothetically, China with its 300 nuclear warheads can destroy every urban population centers in North America, but US with its 5000 warheads can destroy every...