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A Coconut For IAF Apache Gunships

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They got their Apaches. We are still looking for signs of our Zulus.

Fooled me once - shame on you, fooled me twice - shame on me! How many times have the Americans fooled Pakistan?

So I wont be making fun of Indians on this occasion.
 
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By giving the Apaches to the Airforce instead of the army, they have committed a strategic blunder and secondly why the hell they painted their Apaches grey. Do they expect them to go into dogfight with our F16s? Attack helicopters have to be integrated with army especially armor. With its history of fratacide, IAF cannot coordinate within itself how the hell will it coordinate with the Army in thick of the battle.
 
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By giving the Apaches to the Airforce instead of the army, they have committed a strategic blunder and secondly why the hell they painted their Apaches grey. Do they expect them to go into dogfight with our F16s? Attack helicopters have to be integrated with army especially armor. With its history of fratacide, IAF cannot coordinate within itself how the hell will it coordinate with the Army in thick of the battle.

You seem quite worried about the well being of Indian military. Anymore suggestions for the Indian force to get its act together?
 
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To be honest these are no real threat to us. Apart from a good radar, it doznt pose any challenge. Good targets for manpads.
 
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They can have the best hardware but it takes years to develop strategy and tactics. In this case their operating model became victim of inter services rivalry. It will be years before they become effective. On the other hand Pakistan has developed very effective gunship tactics both for conventional and non-conventional warfare over the last 30 years. One way or another Pakistan will get new gunship soon American, Turkish or Chinese.
 
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By giving the Apaches to the Airforce instead of the army, they have committed a strategic blunder and secondly why the hell they painted their Apaches grey. Do they expect them to go into dogfight with our F16s? Attack helicopters have to be integrated with army especially armor. With its history of fratacide, IAF cannot coordinate within itself how the hell will it coordinate with the Army in thick of the battle.
That's what I have been wondering as well. Regardless of how well you plan inter-service coordination through tech, process and training, it will always be between two services and hence sub-optimally managed, when you compare it to the scenario where the actual beneficiaries of helos being deployed (the army) control the assets completely.
One of the reasons why the western forces are super combat effective is that their structures allow for a great degree of improvisation at the ground level, a company CO can plan and execute based on his understanding of the situation. Our rigid structures always make it difficult to take the initiative (wait for further instructions while the armchair generals evaluate the situation), especially since no plans ever get executed seamlessly in battle.
 
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