The South Asian subcontinent is like a goat's face, and the sheep's horn plan is like two sheep's horns stuck in the sheep's face, but these two sheep's horns are upside down and will die. India is a country with a relatively good geopolitical environment, and it is the dominant country in South Asia, and if there is no China in the north, it can be regarded as perfect, and even if it is adjacent to China, it is also sheltered by the roof of the world, and it is difficult for China to come down from the plateau and threaten them for a long time.

However, unlike in the past, China is now prosperous in military power and has various ways to balance the disadvantages of highland and mountain warfare, and the greatest reliance that India can rely on has been lost, and China, which is too strong, has become a nightmare for Indians.

First, China attacked the disputed region of southern Tibet and reclaimed from the Indians a piece of land that had been illegally controlled by India for decades. In addition, in order to support Pakistan, China sent troops from Xinjiang, entered Indian-controlled Ladakh from Asai Keqin, and coordinated with the Pakistani army to attack the Indian army, causing the Indian army to suffer heavy losses and unable to continue to stabilize its defense line in Kashmir.

Especially in the skies over Kashmir, the Indian army has basically lost air supremacy, and when there was only the Pakistani Air Force, the Indian Air Force was able to fight on a par or even have a slight upper hand, but when the Chinese Air Force intervened, the Indian Air Force immediately suffered a serious blow and began to passively avoid war in order to reduce the loss of the Air Force's fighter assets.

China did not send too many fifth-generation fighters to the Kashmir battlefield on the Western Front, basically the fourth-generation fighters such as the J-9 and J-10 of the Air Force, but the scale is quite amazing. On the Western Front, the Chinese Air Force has committed at least 100 fighter jets, as well as a regiment-sized Backfire bomber, ready to go into the battlefield as needed.

The Indian army MiG-29 and F-15 faced opponents at the beginning were Pakistani FC-1 and JF-8 fighters, either fourth-generation light aircraft or third-generation old models, and they were still able to take advantage of a certain amount of advantage in battle. The Indian FC-1 Thunder is still able to compete with the MiG-29, but it is somewhat powerless in the face of the F-15.

However, the situation soon changed after the Chinese joined, and the first round of air battles on the Sino-Indian Western Front broke out over Leh, the capital of the Ladakh region. When two Indian F-15s were chasing a JF-8 fighter of the Pakistani army, they encountered a Chinese J-10 Super Raptor fighter that rushed to support. The Chinese fighter is a flying squadron of four J-10s, which appears to be at ease when dealing with the F-15.

Although the Indian F-15 is a twin-engine heavy fighter, the J-10B also has its own advantages, such as a simplified version of the F-15 that is superior to the Indian army in terms of avionics system, equipped with an active phased array radar, and the traces of the Indian fighter were found at a relatively long distance. At the same time, the J-10B also has a relatively high nose pointing rate, the performance of the instantaneous disk is also better, in the maneuvering operation, the skilled Chinese pilots have played a good role in the advantages of their fighters, in the F-15IN can not capture their own time, they launched missiles, Indian fighters were shot down one after another, almost nothing to fight back.

If you want Chinese pilots to basically maintain high-intensity flight training now, they basically fly 300 hours a year, while the intensity of the Indian army is far less powerful than PLA, that is, about 100 hours, and it can't even reach this number. In terms of systematic training and actual combat exercises, the Indian army is even worse than the PLA.

Therefore, when the Indian military plane meets the Chinese fighter, it is like a jackal meeting a lion, which is completely vulnerable and can be easily torn apart. In the following battles with Chinese fighters on the Western Front, the Indian army lost more fighters, and the MiG-21 fighters that the Indian army was also equipped with were shot down the most, and the fulcrum and F-15 were also damaged to a certain extent. On the Chinese side, a J-9 Shadow Leopard crashed due to a malfunction, but fortunately the pilot was fine, and was subsequently rescued by the arriving Pakistani army.

In fact, in the air combat on the Western Front, the practice is basically those routines of the Chinese Air Force more than ten years ago, through better equipment to achieve the first enemy to find the first enemy to strike, basically outside the line of sight to solve the battle, the Chinese Air Force did not give J-9, J-10 such old fighters to integrate a new generation of Thunderbolt-10, Thunderbolt-13 and Thunderbolt-14 air-to-air missiles, but even the performance of the previous generation of air-to-air missiles such as PL-9 and PL-12 surpasses the current Indian army use R-73, AIM-9 and other things.

After India announced its accession to NATO, India asked NATO allies for help, hoping that US military or fighters from other NATO countries could come to India to assist the Indian army in resisting the Chinese Air Force. Naturally, the Americans agreed and began to prepare for the transfer of fighter planes to India to participate in the war, but many NATO countries reacted very coldly to this and did not intend to get involved in this dispute.

The US military plans to use the airports of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries in the Middle East to urgently dispatch a large number of F-15 and F-16 fighters from Europe to India, but it is obvious that China will inevitably react to this after learning of this plan, and the conflict that breaks out outside India is likely to continue to increase the intensity and scale of the war.

In addition, the US military also plans to let US aircraft carriers come to the Arabian Sea and take off fighters at sea to support the Indian army, but there are also certain operational difficulties in this. First of all, a US aircraft carrier is blocked in the Persian Gulf, and if you want to get out, you must have to deal with China's aircraft carrier battle group. And even if they arrive in the Arabian Sea, the planes taking off may be intercepted by Pakistani or Chinese fighters at any time, and it is still a question whether they can reach Kashmir.

Although India has relied on NATO, it knows that it is better to seek others than to seek itself at some critical moments, and the Indian military has learned from the pain and is determined to strengthen the research and development of its own aviation equipment, and the LCA Glorious Fighter, which has been developed since 1983, has not been built well under the operation of the Indians. Indians hope that LCA can do this for a while, and hope that LCA can do that for a while, their minds are constantly changing, and when designing, many indicators are unrealistic, coupled with the slow and leisurely attitude of Indians, the plane has not yet been built, and it may have changed policies, enterprises and industry systems, and finally had to be reversed.

The Indians were unable to produce all the components of the LCA themselves, so they naturally turned to the United States and other European countries and Israel, although progress was still slow. After the outbreak of the Flag Burning War, the Indians realized the huge gap with the Chinese Air Force and knew that if they wanted to resist the Chinese, they had to get more newer and better fighters.

It is rare that this time the Indian Ministry of Defense has not exaggerated and blown the sky, LCA glorious re-planning, LCA positioning has been clear, is a fourth-generation light fighter, can be better than Pakistan's Thunder, can also be China's J-9, J-10 to have a fight.

India was able to obtain many weapon subsystems from the United States, including the F404 engine, and then invited European and American experts to assist, and finally was able to completely complete the plan for the Tejas fighter and put it into trial production. In fact, there is a joke in this process, because the Indian led the project, either there was some safety incident, or the person in charge embezzled funds, and its management ability was quite insecure. Under the threat of war, the Indians had to use foreign experts as project leaders, which made the LCA project completely different.

However, this matter is far from quenching the thirst of the near, China and India are at war, and even if India wants to create an LCA record, it is not something that can be completed in a while. And because another Indian domestic weapon performed really poorly at the exhibition, the development of LCA has also attracted attention and doubts.

On the other hand, India's main arms supplier is Russia, from fighter jets to tanks, all kinds of weapons and equipment, including the cooperative research and development of weapons, India is counting on Russia to start supplying India with a large number of weapons only around 2010, when the United States needs to win over India in order to rebalance the Asia-Pacific region.

In this plane, Russia has been hit hard, and the United States urgently needs India to balance China, so it has spared no effort to support India. Not only did the United States provide India with the M1A1 main battle tank at a relatively low price, but it also opened up some technology to India and assisted India in completing the development of their "domestically produced" Arjun tank.

The launch of the Arjun tank is actually about the same year as the LCA, and the other plane has not been completely completed for 30 years, which reflects the comic spirit and strange spirit of the Indians. However, even if the Indians are funny, they still have to try to strengthen their own strength in the face of the threat of a strong neighbor in the north. The Arjun tank was born out of this sense of crisis, India did not set too high standards for the Arjun tank, and specially added the realistic and non-Indian conditions to be able to produce it in large quantities, which finally contributed to the successful completion of the Arjun Mk1 and the delivery of the troops for use.

However, this realistic version of Arjun, although the price has dropped, but the combat effectiveness is not complimentary. Although India aimed at the third generation of tanks, after the advent of Arjun, it was at the level of the T-72 tank. The German-made 1200 horsepower engine, composite armor from Israel, and 120mm tank smoothbore guns from the United States, these things are not the top, and the Arjun is also a practical tank after integration, but compared with China's Type 99, VT-1A, VT-4 and other main battle tanks, it is really a big gap.

The Indian Army's First Armored Division in Kashmir is equipped with some of these precious domestic tanks, because many parts are produced abroad, and India has not been able to increase its own production capacity, so the production speed of Arjun main battle tanks can not be raised, although it has been finalized for a short time, but the Indian Army's equipment is still not more than 100 vehicles.