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i agree. india cannot much china gun to gun. however, i think we are doing a fairly good job of keeping the qualitative edge, which can be seen in the sophistication of the weapon systems in the indian fighters and warships. Although this comes at a price, ie imported from other countries, i think we are benefitting from TOT which china lacks due to copyright infrigment issues.
About Global Fire power, what i meant to say was that, indian military was rather puny in 1962 so if Global Fire power did exist, it would have been ranked 14. Moreover i wouldnt underestimate us if i were you. we did after all fight the germans, italians and japanese across 4 continents in WW2
That great Indian Army (“British” being colloquial, not official) fought and defeated first-rate, first-world enemies: Germans in North Africa and Italy; the Imperial Japanese in southeast Asia. Stripped of Commonwealth camouflage, the Indian Army of 1945 was, in its own right, a veteran combat outfit with global experience.
Restitching the Subcontinent | The Weekly Standard
It's debatable if India has a qualitative edge against us with your indigenous weapons even with Western weapons. however Embargo's ended up strengthen us in making our own weapon right now our pace is good and by 2015-2020 we are planning to rely on our self.
the same can be said for our Military we have improved during that time while fighting the Japanese and their collaborators through a bloody war where they had an advantage. no one underestimated you in 1962 in fact we overestimated you 'China did not expect India to give up so easily in 1962' - Times Of India