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Good Day Friends.
India has ability to launch nukes from land and air; soon it will have INS Arihant operational followed by 4 more SSBNs.
However India does not have Strategic Bomber/ Long Range Standoff Launcher like US, Russai and China do. (and UK did.)
My question is, does India need strategic bomber fleet of 10-15 aircrafts?
After induction of P-8 Is we can retire all Tu-142s and rearm them with Nirbhay and Nirbhay 2 ALCMs
Other option is buying Tu-22 M3 from Russia. They are some reports which confirm that India wanted to lease backfires which guaranteed supply of spares but Russia insisted on selling.
We can go for that deal again.
@sancho > am I right about the the proposed sale of backfire?
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