Why air power was not used in 1962

[abc123xyx]

Keep trolling.

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[Hindustani78]

Not until you are at least capable of making decent rifles.

 

[Dungeness]

76mm Oto-Melara Super Rapid Gun, Imported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTO_Melara_76_mm

 

[Hindustani78]

76mm Oto-Melara Super Rapid Gun, Imported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTO_Melara_76_mm

 

[ranadd]

76mm Oto-Melara Super Rapid Gun, Imported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTO_Melara_76_mm

But an Indian Naval officer is going to give the command to push the fire button on the console. As Chinese folks rightly points out, western products are of higher quality and accuracy. So rest assured it will hit the enemy targets with near zero error.

Poor backward country we are.

Please do check the history of each product on your 52D's. Every-single-freaking product is reverse engineered or once license built and they "make" it now. Not developed or co-developed or made by so and so . A reverse engineered product to this date has never functioned on the same class as the original product. All this invokes pride for you. No issues with that. Yet you point fingers on us?. Why because we paid someone to do it for us? India was not able to build a ship of that caliber 10 years back. Look now. Give us time. Look at your navy. 20 years back it was a group of hish posh. Now all shiny. And you mock us? Shame you cannot buy class&dignity with money.

 

[Hindustani78]

File photo of Indian and Chinese soldiers during the 1962 War.(Archives)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...pal-myanmar/story-nlXqFNgFzyFx0gI1YLg8wM.html

Months after the brief but bloody India-China border war of 1962, American intelligence were worried about the possibility of further strikes by Chinese troops through Tibet, Myanmar and even Nepal and Bhutan.

After a string of skirmishes along the disputed frontier led to a spike in tensions, Chinese troops mounted an offensive in October 1962 and advanced into Ladakh and the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA, now the state of Arunachal Pradesh). A month later, China announced a unilateral truce and withdrew its troops.

By January 1963, wary US intelligence officials began studying the possibility of China “giving the Indians another black eye”, according to declassified documents recently posted on the Central Intelligence Agency’s website.

The CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and United States Intelligence Board conducted several assessments over a period of months, including possible attacks through neighbouring countries. They estimated the Chinese could mobilise a little more than 120,000 troops for such attacks and also assessed the air threat to India.

A DIA document, titled “The Chinese Communist ground threat to India”, drawn up less than six months after the 1962 war, concluded China had the capability to carry out attacks in Ladakh, through border passes between Ladakh and Nepal, across eastern Bhutan and NEFA into Assam.

“It is estimated that the Chinese could support indefinitely operations in Ladakh, Nepal, Bhutan and eastern NEFA,” the document stated.

Among the military objectives of such attacks would be extending Chinese control to the town of Leh, seizing the territorial claim north of Joshimath, the “eventual occupation” of Nepal to forestall Indian intervention and the “effective occupation” of NEFA and the part of Assam north of the Brahmaputra river. The occupation of Assam, the DIA estimated, would require a “strong and permanent lodgement” in the Guwahati area.

Both the CIA and DIA concluded that Chinese advances would be impeded by Beijing’s lack of logistics capabilities and the weather.

A May 1963 top secret memorandum from the CIA and USIB concluded the “government of Burma (now Myanmar) would not resist the movement of Chinese troops” for a possible attack on India and would even “acquiesce” in the use of Burmese transportation facilities and airfields.

Both the CIA and DIA believed a possible Chinese attack through Burma would be mounted through two routes – the Kunming-Dibrugarh road via Ledo and the Kunming-Tezpur road via Mandalay and Imphal.

However, the CIA concluded that China posed only a “limited air threat” to India because of the weakness in “equipment and combat proficiency” of the air force and the lack of adequate bases in the Himalayan region.

Almost a year after the 1962 war, CIA deputy director Ray Cline informed McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to President John F Kennedy, that there were “several reasons to be concerned about the possibility of a Chinese Communist attack on the Sino-Indian border”.

China had about 120,000 troops in Tibet “capable of launching an attack on the scale of last fall with little or no warning” and Beijing “may have a political or psychological urge to demonstrate…their lack of fear of their enemies by giving the Indians another black eye right in front of both the Russians and Americans”, Bundy wrote.

 

[nang2]

We are producing big guns and you are talking about rifles.

The fact that you can make big guns doesn't mean you can make decent rifles. You need to master both. One doesn't necessarily lead to the other.

A reverse engineered product to this date has never functioned on the same class as the original product.

You must not be in the computer industry. Compaq reverse engineered IBM PCs and certainly outclassed the original product.

 

[zip]

If China and India cant coexist peacefully then I am afraid we are making a bad example for generations to come ..

 

[nang2]

If China and India cant coexist peacefully then I am afraid we are making a bad example for generations to come ..

It isn't about whether two countries CAN coexist. It is about whether people in two countries WANT to coexist.

 

[Hindustani78]

If China and India cant coexist peacefully then I am afraid we are making a bad example for generations to come ..

Peace can be achieved , Chinese have to withdraw from Indian territories which it has occupied . All those territories belongs to the Indian nation and are holy lands.

 

[nang2]

Peace can be achieved , Chinese have to withdraw from Indian territories which it has occupied . All those territories belongs to the Indian nation and are holy lands.

Same demand can be made by Chinese. So, it is not about peace. It is about peace only on my term.

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

Peace can be achieved , Chinese have to withdraw from Indian territories which it has occupied . All those territories belongs to the Indian nation and are holy lands.

Same goes for the other side.

Peace can only be achieved when indians cede British Raj-inherited lands lands east of sikkim to the Chinese nation and of which- are mongoloid-populated lands.

 

[Hindustani78]

Same demand can be made by Chinese. So, it is not about peace. It is about peace only on my term.

Chinese are aware what is the reality regarding the Indian territory.

Same goes for the other side.

Peace can only be achieved when indians cede British Raj-inherited lands lands east of sikkim to the Chinese nation and of which- are mongoloid-populated lands.

During the Pala and Sena dynasty period , all the territories were of Indian nation.

Demographics of those territories started to change after 1750. and still that is happening.

 

[nang2]

Chinese are aware what is the reality regarding the Indian territory.
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Chinese are aware. it is India that isn't aware of the reality regarding Chinese territory. otherwise, India would have agreed to use loc as official border, which was China sought for even before 1962.

 

[Hindustani78]

Chinese are aware. it is India that isn't aware of the reality regarding Chinese territory. otherwise, India would have agreed to use loc as official border, which was China sought for even before 1962.

The territories which the chinese are occupying are sacred places of Indian nation.

Brahmaputra and Indus rivers are sacred rivers of Indian nation and are part of ancient Indian civilization.