Question: What improvements or modernization program plus acquisition did the Indian Air Force (IAF) made last year that has placed then ranking #3 Air Force in the world according to Global Air Power Rankings. The reports state that although PLAAF has more aircraft than IAF it lacks superiority. According to their criteria of rankings on the report the organization apparently do the following: WDMMA prepares its report by evaluating many factors like present strenghts & weaknesses of air force. It uses formula to take into account values related to the total fighting strength of the various air services of the narions thus, the military air power of a country is not analysed only based on its total quantity of aircraft but rather on its quality and general mix of inventory.
But this sentence confused and left me dumbfounded:
"It also focuses on LOCAL AERO-INDUSTRY CAPABILITIES, inventory balance (General mix of unity types) and force experience."
I wasn't aware that if a country mostly imports their air craft/fighter planes, fighter bombers, transport planes, E.W. etc..that would equate to bettering a country who's industrial capacity not to mention indigenization is far more mature in comparison to India. Unless someone here can educate me on what I have been missing about the Indian Air Force is this yet another ploy by Western publication to push the Jai Hinds into thinking that they have indeed the better air force than China so that they can be goaded into another border clash? Goodness to gracious man, what the f is wrong with the West. Have they lost any semblance of critical thinking and has totally replaced it with nothing but wishful fantastical purely ideological based thinking?