Quality of forces is more important then quality. In today's day and age I think India just has to develop capability to give China a bloody nose and hold it's ground for a limited time. The talk about matching China quantitavely if true should be abandoned. We can put that money to much better...
While it is true that in the present economic scenario it does make sense for India & China to go to war with each other there are reports of Chinese nibbling away at the borders taht have to be taken seriously (remember Hindi-Chini bhai bhai). I do not mean to offend any Chinese personally but...
So you think.. that when aircraft carrier is surrounded by a formation of friendly ships..
that a missile cant reach this AC?
Or a damn submarine?(undetected?).
I mean I dont know if india has anti missile systems in their navy..
but if not.. AC could just be dead at first launch.
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