Indian newspaper The Tribune goes with the material, to the initiated, India intends to confront the "Chinese and Pakistani threats". reported, that the Indian Air Force are going participation of military exercises over the Himalayas. In the course of a recent exercise, the main aim was overlapping supply channel simulated enemy troops on the outskirts of the Indian border. In this edition of The Tribune immediately reveal all the cards of the General Staff of India, instead of the word "conditional" using the term "Chinese".
Indian Defense Ministry has decided to revive the concept of the two fronts. We are talking about the situation, in which the Indian military leadership "sees" an attack on India as a part of China, and on the part of Pakistan, And at the same time. Here we must recall, that recently these three countries (in addition to Russia and some other countries) It consists of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), however MO India rhetoric is, that the partners in the military nor the PRC, nor Pakistan is still not considered.
The Indian Defense Ministry noted, that currently has approximately the PRC 2,1 thousand. combat aircraft among which the fifth-generation fighter. Vice-marshal BBC India Manmohan Singh Bahadur otmeçaet, manages to determine that while J-20 in air, but India may have problems, if the Chinese begin to make these planes in large quantities and used as a major threat to air. Recall, that not so long ago came from India reports, Su-30 Indian Air Force spotted a Chinese Fighter "invisibility".
The following is a comparison of the number of fourth generation aircraft in the Indian Air Force and Air China. According to the estimates of the Indian Ministry of Defense, India such 240, and China - 600. A plus, once again reminded of the problem with FGFA - a joint Russian-Indian aircraft project 5th generation. In New Delhi find, that they "lost too much time" on cooperation, which "has not led to the creation of a full-fledged fighter of new generation".
Indian Air Force exercises were not only over the Himalayas from Chinese border, but also in other parts of the country. So, It was carried out bombing (and missile firing) for landfills in the district of Ladakh (as part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir) - near the Pakistan border. noted, that in addition to aerial maneuvers of the Su-30 aircraft were involved in intelligence. It worked out the possibility of the clock strikes against ground targets with multiple rotation squadrons.
The military command believe India, that the maneuvers were carried out successfully, but at this time we revealed the following problem: in the case of actual combat in the north-east and north-west of the country, new means of aviation, that in the bulk – Russian Su-30, may not be enough.
