That'd be overkill wouldn't it. Might as well save their 10 day's worth of ammo for PLA mobile air defence radars.
India incursion and Chinese standoff at Dolam, Bhutan
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That'd be overkill wouldn't it. Might as well save their 10 day's worth of ammo for PLA mobile air defence radars.
An excellent opportunity to battle-test the newly operational M-20/DF-12, en-masse, maybe?
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In my opinion, this is a bad move on the part of the Indians. Asking for mediation is a sign of being weak. I guess the Indians just blinked in a staring contest... assuming this is true of course...
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by mistake, I didn't say a MAJOR radar site Today at 7:40 PM
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"primary weapon against a MAJOR radar site is an air-launched anti-radiation missile, as in
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since its context obviously was a MAJOR radar site inside #404 Hendrik_2000, Today at 4:56 PM
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I would assume that these radar sites are also protected by anti-air missiles and other assets. The PLA would not leave their radar sites naked. This is of course assuming the PLA cannot secure air superiority effectively soon enough.
I don't see India annexing Bhutan because of the costs imposed by China.
As for India benefiting the longer the standoff exists, this applies in the short-run. But in the long-run, it reinforces the point that Bhutan has to find a way to become independent of India.
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I agree. India just has too many troops in the Chicken's neck area for a few km of road in Doklam to matter.
India is involved in Doklam because they think that this will force Bhutan to turn away from China and stay with India.
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Poor infrastructure in India doesn't change the fact that large numbers of Indian troops are stationed close to their operating areas, which is an advantage.
Yes, there is poor infrastructure on the Indian side, but that just means any Chinese advance will face those transportation bottlenecks.
And as I've said before, the key thing is air superiority in the area, but that will take some time because Doklam is in range of most of India's airbases whereas China has far fewer airbases in range.
Remember that in the event of a conflict, India will need a large number of troops in Doklam. So they might as well station those troops there.
Also, peacetime troop resupply actually is very cheap if you think about it. It is just trucks spending some more time on the road.
Poor infrastructure in India doesn't change the fact that large numbers of Indian troops are stationed close to their operating areas, which is an advantage.
Yes, there is poor infrastructure on the Indian side, but that just means any Chinese advance will face those transportation bottlenecks.
And as I've said before, the key thing is air superiority in the area, but that will take some time because Doklam is in range of most of India's airbases whereas China has far fewer airbases in range.
Remember that in the event of a conflict, India will need a large number of troops in Doklam. So they might as well station those troops there.
Also, peacetime troop resupply actually is very cheap if you think about it. It is just trucks spending some more time on the road.
India stationing troop on the border is not sign of strength as the Indian believe it
It is more of necessity because of the poor infrastructure on their side. so the necessity to stock up on troop and supply
Being so close to the border it will be the first target either by air or by long range missile. With the advance of cheap air burst and precision munition those troop are very vulnerable
It will be slaughter.
Not to mention it is very expensive to supply those troop.
China built all kind of road parallel to border but set back 200 km and built feeder road to the border to allow for rapid movement of troop and supply. Of course they must be station close to start of the road. They are out of reach of Indian artillery which mostly are tow type and again vulnerable to counter strike. Indian airforce operational readiness are dismal combine with limited supply of part and munition they will be running out of munition in the first week of fighting
In 62 China has long supply road since the only road is form Xinjiang and all supply must come from Xinjiang The road you see here hasn't been built. Now with railroad and highway from Lhasa to China inner province of Gansu. The road is much better layout and built
China also has extensive radar station monitoring the Indian airforce and ground troop. Plenty of forward bases with barrack and support system
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This is indian guy who produce this video so disregard his comment
observes every movement in Siachen. plot suggests More
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Yes but resupplying trucks would still need lots of fuel to go through rough terrain and supplying enough for all those Indian troops stationing there. Question is does India has enough fuel for not only supplying the troops but the all those air support as well? Even in a peace time situation it would still be quite costly as far as fuel is concern.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make.
In peacetime, the cost of extra truck travel time is low compared to the overall cost of sustaining an army units. So it does make sense for Indian army units to stockpile supplies in the area.
Again, the key thing is air superiority. If China has air superiority in the area, no Indian supply trucks will be able to travel on any road.
In terms of resupplying Indian airbases, most of the airbases are deep enough in Indian terriroty that fuel supply isn't an issue.
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