I'd agree that MKIs are needed but the use of MKIs without air superiority would be attritional. They're too big and will get shot down if you don't have air superiority. There's a reason why we send M2Ks even today even though those things are ancient at this point.

Why is every Western "South Asian Studies Professor" banging some Pakistani chick? Did Pakis take Mao pill and compromise Western Academia?

A thousand JD Vances across Western administration now

S-400 are meant for shooting down AWACS, tankers and fighters. You don't waste an S-400 barrage for a bunch of loitering munitions and drones lmao.

Good to see revivalists like that, although I'd love to see people trying to revive medieval and Gupta era armor.

Some of these vids from billibilli are crazy. Used to be popular around 2017-2019 "Communist Donald Trump.mp4"

Considering that Astra Mk3 is under development with a range of 350 km, PL-15E wreckage isn't that technologically a great find but yes, it will give us a true idea of what it's range is. I've a feeling Chinese downplay their specs especially with what they give to Pakistan.

Indus Water Treaty is unfair as fuck to India if you actually read the terms. Indus-Jhelum-Chenab has a throughput of 161 billion m³ which Pakistan has full rights. Ravi-Beas-Sutlej merely is 36 billion m³.

Four PL-15s have been found so far in Indian territory.

Indian Ordnance Factories still produce these post-WW2 Swedish flak guns. Attaching it to a computer, visual sensors and a bunch of motors makes a decent drone swarm hunter. Can probably put a few of these near all high value areas.

Incredible things are happening.

Th extension is till 2028. We're quite a few years from a full scale war. In the meantime I hope they begin acquiring assets.

I don't want to say this right now but the last 11 years were spent in doing the bare minimum when it came to defence. Pointless to discuss it now but we really could've been a little more frugal on welfare and freebies and put money in R&D and MIC. There's still time.

The era of flak guns is back. Except this time they're computer guided. You could make tens of thousands of these pretty quickly, and load them up with 40 x 365 mm ammo, and place them near strategic locations that could expect a drone swarm.

This is why I believe GOI should greenlight PMCs. Not every provocation can be responded to by the state considering the state holds nukes and any response from the state is seen by international commentators as a lead up to nuclear war. Resurrect the East India Company.