India Upgrades Military to Match China

[Yeti]

Maoists show off strength, blow up 13 Jharkhand cops - The Times of India

Maoists kill 13 cops. Not unusual news.

Tit for tat

Jan 22, 2012 my article was for today

 

[Sasquatch]

Maoists show off strength, blow up 13 Jharkhand cops - The Times of India

Maoists kill 13 cops. Not unusual news.

Tit for tat

'Maoist movement may end up as a bloody civil war' - Times Of India

 

[tanlixiang28776]

Jan 22, 2012 my article was for today

LOL that's pretty recent.

 

[Yeti]

LOL that's pretty recent.

Russian armed helicopters on the way for them

 

[tanlixiang28776]

Russian armed helicopters on the way for them

What does this have to do with anything?

 

[sweetgrape]

If india upgrade their military by importing weapon, the gap between china and india will be bigger. And if don't improve you weak industry, I don't think india can fill the gap in 30 years. Just see it!! Ten year later, let's see whether india can match for 2010 year's china!!

 

[illusion8]

I think Indian troops will match the chinese once they do the chinese troop snow training thingee with the superman cape and the stupid throw the grenade and jump thingee.

 

[chiranjib]

in terms of current world scenario, it is an unpleasant truth but please bear in mind that modern conflicts are not total wars like ww2 or ww1 where the entire military capability of a nation is tested;in a short sharp exchange i think it will be a stalemate;however if things escalate then watch out;2012 will be true

 

[Android]

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In this Feb. 9, 2009 file photo, an Indian Army T-72 tank rolls into a Landing Craft Mechanized during a joint Army, Navy and Air Force amphibious exercise at the Madhavpur beach, about 475 kilometers (297 miles) west of Ahmadabad, India


India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks as it modernizes its military to match China's.
India and China have had tensions since a 1962 border war, and New Delhi has watched with dismay in recent years as Beijing has increased its influence in the Indian Ocean.
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China has financed the development of ports in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar, and its recent effort to get access in the Seychelles prodded New Delhi to renew its own outreach to the Indian Ocean island state off western India.
With its recent purchases, running into tens of billions of dollars, India is finally working to counter what it sees as aggressive incursions into a region India has long dominated.
"The Indian military is strengthening its forces in preparation to fight a limited conflict along the disputed border, and is working to balance Chinese power projection in the Indian Ocean," James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, told a Senate committee last week.
India has created new infantry mountain divisions and plans to raise a strike corps aimed at countering aggression by China. Their border still has not been set despite 15 rounds of talks, and patrols frequently face off on the ground.
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Analysts say that although the probability of a conflict between the two Asian giants is remote, a short, sharp conflict in the disputed Himalayan heights can't be ruled out.
"Over the last couple of years, the Chinese have been acting more and more aggressively in the political, diplomatic and military arena," said retired Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal, director of the Indian army-funded Centre for Land Warfare Studies in New Delhi.
Indian leaders and defense strategists have fretted as China modernized its forces and extended its military advantage over India. For some in India, countering China is taking precedence even over checking longtime rival Pakistan.
"Of late, there has been a realization (in India) that China is the real danger of the future," Kanwal said.
The drive to modernize Indian forces was long overdue as much of the equipment was obselete Soviet-era weapons, and the orders for fighter jets, naval frigates, helicopters and armaments have made India the world's largest importer of arms. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said India accounted for 9 percent of all the world's weapon imports in 2010, the latest year for which figures were available.
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Last week's order of 126 combat aircraft, won by France's Dassault, followed a bitter battle by global jet manufacturers. The initial cost for the fighter jets is estimated as $11 billion, but on-board weaponry, technology transfers, maintenance, warranties and other costs are expected to almost double the price.
The Indian navy last week took command of a Russian Nerpa nuclear submarine, renamed INS Chakra-II, at the Russian port of Vladivostok, propelling India into an elite group of countries operating underwater nuclear-powered vessels. It joins the United States, France, Russia, Britain and China.
The Chakra-II, on lease for 10 years at a cost of nearly $1 billion, is expected to be inducted into the navy by March. Later this year, India is expected to take delivery of a retrofitted Soviet-built aircraft carrier.
In addition, six Scorpene subs being built in India under license from France in a $5 billion deal are expected to start going into service in 2015, three years behind schedule, said Defense Minister A.K. Antony. Labor problems and difficulties procuring needed technology have hampered the project, he told the Indian Parliament recently. Critics also blame India's sluggish bureaucracy for the delays.
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"India's efforts at modernizing its forces have been very slow," said Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, a defense analyst at the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation.
Some Indian military experts complain that the country is not doing enough to upgrade its forces to the level befitting the regional power it aspires to be.
"It's not only China that is rising. India is on the ascent too, and it's a trend that will continue for some decades," said retired Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak at the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi.
India may be worrying over China's overtures to its neighbors, but New Delhi is reaching out to the Southeast Asian and East Asian countries in Beijing's backyard as well.
India has struck a strategic partnership with Vietnam, including helping Hanoi beef up its defense capabilities. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been actively pursuing a "Look East" policy, engaging the leaders of South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, among others. The policy has resulted in a troupe of high-level visits to India, bolstering trade and economic cooperation.
Nowhere is the contest between China and India more evident than in Myanmar, where both of the energy-seeking Asian giants are caught in a race to gain access to the country's natural gas sources.
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India has regularly conducted defense exercises with countries in the region. It is scheduled to host the navies of 14 Asian countries in maritime exercises later this week; the Chinese and Pakistani navies have not been invited.
And, while India is increasing its defense capabilities, China is doing the same, but faster, making it difficult for India to catch up. The Chinese government's military budget is the second largest in the world after the United States.
India has raised two mountain divisions of soldiers to add to its existing high-altitude troops. Around 36,000 soldiers and officers of the divisions have been posted in the remote northeast, not far from India's Arunachal Pradesh state, which China claims as part of its territory.
A proposal for a mountain strike corps is awaiting clearance by India's Cabinet, and an independent armored brigade for the mountain region also is in the works. India hopes to show it can strike deep beyond its neighbor's borders to serve as a deterrent for any Chinese aggression, Kanwal said.
"India is building up its capability for offensive operations in the mountains with a view to taking the fight into Chinese territory," Kanwal said.

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India Upgrades Military to Match China - TIME

 

[below_freezing]

Q: why is hacking India's electrical grid futile? Are their ITsecurity really that good?
A: no its because Indians are used to load shedding.

 

[illusion8]

self delete

 

[peep]

Bring in the Mountain Strike Corps !!

 

[davidson]

Indian's weapon is a joke 90% are imported, including LCA, Arjun Tank, Missiles

 

[KRAIT]

Q: why is hacking India's electrical grid futile? Are their ITsecurity really that good?
A: no its because Indians are used to load shedding.

Why don't you ask the same question to your best friend country....if you know what i mean

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Indian's weapon is a joke 90% are imported, including LCA, Arjun Tank, Missiles

Chinese weapons are joke too....copy-cat...

 

[davidson]

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Chinese weapons are joke too....copy-cat...

MISSILE, ROCKET, CANNON, GUN all are invented by Chinese

WHo is copy cat? Europeans often claim they are superior based on "their" inventions. But as this Discovery Channel documentary shows, Europeans merely copied many inventions that originated in China.

(E.g Missile, Rocket, Cannon, Gun)



Ancient China did not conquer the world, because they believed in peaceful correlation.