agreed. i think it was a wrong partition since the very first day. there should have been three countries since 47. defending a country which is far away from the mainland with a huge hostile country is impossible. secondly bangladesh is surrounded from three sides by india and they did naval blockade as well so it was completely surrounded from all sides by india. the only military option was to annex indian assam by cutting of the "chicken neck" but for that large amount of military was required which was not there and chinese help was a must to sustain it for a long time.
That was plan orginally two different countries hence word states in 1940 & acceptance of cabinet mission by PMLN but it was later changed in 1946 due to many reasons (primary bengali leaders wanted unity for their own sake)
I do not think Russians weapons are useless or ineffective by any means. As you see IAF is operating antique aircraft’s even today only because it’s adversaries are not much better.
But after this engagement it is evident that Mig 21 has no role to play in IAF any longer, we can’t always have a mig 21 against mirage 3/5s ..! There will be times when IAFs worst will face PAFs best, in such situations we know who will have the upper hand.
Operational tempo and situations dictate the outcome of an air engagement, see in the gulf war Iraq’s inferior airforce was totally defeated by USAF, but they still managed to down one f-18 with their not so good mig 25.
Does that mean mig 25 is better than f-18s..?? Should USAF throw their f-18 fleet into the sea..! Definitely not.
On the topic..what was india doing for last 10 years PAF got the f16s in 2009..sleeping?
Second sat image anaylsis post balakot by third parties shows clearly what happened denying that has made IAF unprofessional in eyes of neutral observers. Recent release of end stage footage from H4s released by PAF doesnt help IAF either. It surely either a delibrate miss or wrong co ordinates by IAF
Third the fact that IAF had no AWAC coverage, no secure communication, no BVR superiority and no ability to use IFF system are serious short comings that led to mass causualities in the military operations (6 IAF members died)
In all it was serious and complete failure
Just claiming you shot an f16 that too by pinning it on abhi seems a cover up to begin with..PAF claims a su30 kill and has no evidence behind it but atleast they dont claim that an f7 shot down a su30.
In nutshell PER INDIAN AIRFORCE (this isnt me its your own airforce) almost for decade PAF had 5 superior fighter squardons with IAF caught napping...in a war IAF would have lost early stages really badly as F16s with 10 AWECS would have turkey shot all the IAF fighters..
IAF doesnt need 36 rafales it needs 100 and not tomorrow... yesterday
Both su 30 & mirages had radar issues so IAF need to go back to the drawing board to figure out what happened..
Astra isnt the solution if issue was radar lock..
2.4b for mirages down the drain..& now they wont get meteor..what a waste..mica wont cut it for BVR