Took too long to get assembled.
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Took too long to get assembled.
At this point defense industries of S Korea, Turkey are ahead of India. Quite shocking if you see the actual output:hubris ratio.
It was a massive mistake for China IMO to not press ahead in 1962 and pull back after winning the fight. China needs to either resolve all outstanding border issues with India and neutralize the threat politically or if India continues to play dirty, then, China needs to up the ante, there are several factions all over India who desire independence.
Supply lines back then wouldn't support any longer campaign, or even long term occupation for that matter. 1962 war also occurred mostly during the window of opportunity during the Cuban Missile Crisis while US and USSR was too busy. Had it gone on any longer it would have attracted attention from them and complicate things.
Same argument can be made for the RPG-7 today. Only, it's vastly cheaper than the Carl Gustav. No Indian-made Carl Gustav is gonna be that cheap. Its still a Saab product.
It was not a massive mistake to not press ahead. China in 1962 could not afford to supply a garrison force to defend it's gains in such inhospitable terrain. The infrastructure and economy at that time wouldn't have been sufficient for the task. Plus a long war with India is not what China desires in 1962. There are more pressing issues at that time.
But now in 2022, China has the infrastructure, technology, manpower, and economy to hold it's gains. It has been demonstrated since 2020. China was able to decisively retake and keep most of its territories in Aksai Chin. The PLA was able to advance over a broad front within days, and then sustain a garrison presence ever since. It astounded the Indians. It was also an indirect stern warning to India. Anymore monkey tricks, and India could permanently lose control over their claimed disputed territories.
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To which specific territories are you referring? China has withdrawn from all the 2020 standoff points as a result of mutual disengagement, with buffer zones also extending into the Chinese side of the lac.
I'll state my point. Aksai Chin and South Tibet were Chinese territories since the Qing dynasty. It could possibly even go all the way back to the Yuan dynasty. There was no nation or empire called 'India' back then when China owned those lands. Indian claims today are based entirely on the false claims of the British Raj. If it wasn't for the British Raj, India wouldn't even be in control of the 7 sisters states in the Northeast. Those states actually were taken away from the old Burmese Empire by the British Raj. So, the modern nation state of India is practically a construct of British colonial legacy.
Today, China holds almost all of its territories in Aksai Chin save for some buffer zone. It's the Indians who were ones who had to withdraw further from most of the defacto border to form a buffer zone for China. This has been debated and pointed out in hundreds of pages in the Ladakh Standoff thread. No need debate about this topic anymore.
You'll never agree with this for sure. So, let's agree to disagree.
Has India finally gotten its big arms export deal?
Even Public Radio Armenian is saying something about this:
Really?
For real?
Even Public Radio Armenian is saying something about this:
So the Armenian side has not said anything official yet. This news apparently only came from the Indian media. So we shall see if this is really happening, or if this is another one of those 'Tejas deal' news.
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Maybe, although there are many retired jets parked for decades in the that actually look fresher than this brand new Indian helicopter.