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Opinionated - How India can "checkmate" China in a week if war breaks out

Yes you read that right. You are surprised?

China has a big weakness nobody seems to be talking about. Before we talk about that let us do a small military comparision.

Who would win in a war between India and China? Why? - Quora

As you can see China is superior to India in almost every category except tanks and artillery. But in this scenario China is attacking India. India only has to defend itself. Now we can talk about China's biggest weakness:

Geography

We are going to divide the war into land, sea and air theatres. We start with discussing a land war between Indian army and PLA. No need to mention manpower because its the same.

Land warfare- India vs China

The fact that China has 35000 armoured vehicles and India only 12000 does not mean anything considering the geograpgy. The border is spread out 100s of kilometers of rocky, inhospitable, monstrously huge himalayas with narrow bases.

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The first thing we can do is to destroy bridges, turn all weather roads to ashes and block strategic mountain passes. When this done China has no hope of advancing.

Air warfare- India vs China

Fanboys will be talking about superior chinese quantity and quality, but what about logistics? Take a look:

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PLAAF only has 5 large airbases in Tibet and 2 in Xinjiang. Meanwhile we have 20 bases with flight range of the LAC. The majority of the 3000 PLAAF aircraft are on the eastern side. 3500 km away from where the action will be happening.

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This would mean mid-air refueling. It would longer time to respond to Indian attack. Should I also mention that we would be able to track them before they reach war theater?

There is yet another logistic problem. Cargo weight....

Indian airbases with the exception of a few are the on the plains.

The airbases in Tibet are at an altitude of 4000m above sea level.

The lower air density at such high altitudes hampers jet engines and limits the amount of Weapons and fuel military aircraft can carry while still being able to take off.

Meteorological conditions across the Tibetan Plateau, moreover, are unpredictable, making it difficult to plan high-intensity air campaigns.

In short, the PLAAF cannot hope to run a Sustained air campaign.

Sea warfare- India vs China

This one is very interesting. China has the largest navy in the world. We are massively outclasses in both quantity and quality. Look at the submarine ratio or destroyer ratio.

But again the poor chinese have a geography problem.

We are talking about the choke point in strait of malacca


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If the Chinese navy entered the Indian ocean region with the goal of engaging the Indian navy, they would have to come through this strait. The channel is very narrow. Only 2 km at its narrowest point. It would be difficult for the Chinese to send naval assets since Indian navy is going to guard the entrance via Indira port.

What do fighter jets, tanks and warship run on? Oil.... 80% of China's oil is imported through the straict of malacca. A naval blockade would bring a oil crisis in China.

This is why i said that China can be checkmated in a week by India.

CCP can push all they want, but they will meet strong resistance and retaliation from the Indian Army, Airforce and Navy.

And then they will learn their lesson.

Jai Hind!
Oh dear...what a genius analysis..no one could possibly think of that or counter it.
Super duper power India
 
3D printing speeds up production of missiles, China Daily

Let's say that your Barak-8 has 100% success on countering China missile. But then, how many Barak-8 that India can launch to counter Chinese's mass production cruise missiles that are made by their new 3D printing tech? Maybe India will spend all their money and Barak-8 even before China spend half of their Cruise Missile stock. Even if they have, they can replenish their cruise missiles in a time of weeks rather than months, unlike traditional missile making process.
thanks to its dual-pulse solid rocket motor(developed by DRDO) whose second “pulse” fires as the missile approaches its target. This ensures that the missile isn’t just coasting in the final stages, giving it more than one chance at a fast, maneuvering target.

The missile’s most important feature may be its active seeker. Instead of forcing its ship or land-based radar to “paint”/illuminate its target at all times, the Barak 8 can be left alone once it is close to its target. This is an excellent approach for dealing with saturation attacks using ship radars, which can track many targets but illuminate just a few. It’s also very useful for land-based systems, which will survive longer against enemy anti-radar missiles (ARMs) if they can turn themselves on and off to confuse enemy seekers, without worrying that they will lose all of their effectiveness.

That kind of performance vaults the Barak 8 past widespread options like the RIM-162 ESSM, or entries like VL-MICA on land. Though the Barak-8 may compete globally with those systems, a better comparison would be naval missiles like Raytheon’s SM-2 Block IIIA and MBDA’s Aster-15, or land-based options like the Patriot. The Barak 8’s active seeker would even give it a performance advantage over the SM-2, and corresponds more closely to the SM-6 currently in development.

The naval Barak-8 reportedly maintains its principle of using compact launchers and systems. Its ancillary capabilities will always depend on the radar and combat system aboard its ship.

One wild card is the Barak’s potential use in a point defense role against ballistic missiles, a role that can be played by some of its more advanced competitors on land or sea. This capability is implied in the land-based system’s name, but hasn’t been discussed publicly, or validated in publicly announced tests
 
Or will the BJP fanboys run away when the CPC members come down?
That is for you to judge. Who have stood around and fought? Who have spent all their time on social media instead? When did any political supporter fight?

Buddy the comment was copied from my earlier comment
PLAGIARISM!

You quoted yourself!!

P O L I C E !


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Impressed!

Were you one of these women?

sometime its hard to decide patwaris are more stupid or pajeets
Guard the soda, chacha, and leave these tough decisions to others.
 
Stop reading after reading the words “except tanks and artillery” even though China operates more advanced items of both e.g. Type99A and in greater numbers.
 
Stop reading after reading the words “except tanks and artillery” even though China operates more advanced items of both e.g. Type99A and in greater numbers.
Heavy weight Type 99A main battle tank is not very effective in eastern Ladakh due to lack of oxygen and hilly terrain



Stop reading after reading the words “except tanks and artillery” even though China operates more advanced items of both e.g. Type99A and in greater numbers.



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DRDO developed ATAGS has successfully completed all User trials at Pokharan.
 
Heavy weight Type 99A main battle tank is not very effective in eastern Ladakh due to lack of oxygen and hilly terrain







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DRDO developed ATAGS has successfully completed all User trials at Pokharan.

Dude they have the Type 15 for high altitude.
Also China makes an array of impressive artillery and has been doing it for many years. That's in high numbers as well.
 
Heavy weight Type 99A main battle tank is not very effective in eastern Ladakh due to lack of oxygen and hilly terrain







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DRDO developed ATAGS has successfully completed all User trials at Pokharan.
It would be better for your case to present a scenario by either using both Chinese and Indian sources to compare the relative strength(s) OR using only established impartial third party sources. No offence but quoting mostly Indian sources seems like patting yourself on the back.
 
Type 99A tanks are not efficient? I saw that months ago, China did send some 99A tanks right in front of the Indian border line. Did anyone see that those 99A tanks were not moving well? In comparison, I read a piece of news saying that the Russian tanks, even the T-90's were the real not efficient vehicles on high land area since they were not designed to be used in high altitude area. BTW, China has type 15 light weight tanks, how about India? Got some Korean made light weight tanks yet?
 
I basically 2 main advantages of China over India. That is long range subsonic missiles in big numbers and MBRL with higher range. In rest of the cases, India has upper edgd. India has steep dive Brahmos to hit any damn target located just othr side of mountains. Indian aircrafts can csrry more payload and operate 8n Himalaya with an ease. Chinese supply chain can easily be cut off eith India's precision sttike weapons. India has procurred highly advace and specic weapons from scross the world including Israeli Spice 2000, French hammer , India's own SAAW, American Excalibur. To bring down China on its knèe should not be difficult.
 
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I basically 2 msin advantages of China over Indis. That is long rang rage subsonic missiles in big numbers and MBRL eith higher range. In rest of the cases, India has upper edgd. India has steep dive Brahmos to hit any damn target located just othr side of mountains. Indian aircrafts can csrry more payload and operate 8n Himalaya with an ease. Chinese supply chain can easily be cut off eith India's precision sttike weapons. India has procurred highly advace and specic weapons from scross the world including Israeli Spice 2000, French hammer , India's own SAAW, American Excalibur. To bring down China on its knèe should not be difficult.
having 5 different countries of origin for weapons is an ADVANTAGE? Ok.

I mean we can talk all day but the reality is that Indians even here are highly reliant on everything going right and nobody making any changes, while Chinese already thought of multiple alternatives that Indians simply don't have an answer to.

Even now, not a single Indian can answer a very simple question: let's just say that India can magically block Malacca. what stops Chinese state owned importers from simply paying extra for the tankers to travel west?

If they can't answer even this simple problem then their entire strategy falls apart.
 
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