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steel21 said:
It's not hard to send a small contingent of studs to represent the force.

They can't train that hard if IAF is constantly short on smart munitions.

I remember reading about an incident where the Indian pilot wind up bombing his own base while trying to preserve the munition which failed in training. Memory hazy and can't find a link, but it could've been a fuel tank.

You can't train if you don't have the planes. If Indian sortie rates are low, then available airframes for training is low. If they have big flight hours, then it's probably a administrative stats game.
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IAF went a decade without any jet trainers. Inexperienced pilots went from cessnas (or the Indian equivalent), to badly maintained 50 year old MiG 21s.

Maybe the Indian airforce have suddenly improved things in the last 10 decades and buying competent platforms makes them a competent force. But given how everything else goes in Indian society I'm very sceptical.
 
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Do retired Indian military people write scripts for Funny Bollywood movies? Indians love their twitter sources.

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"One outstanding account of bravery and valour is about a young Ghatak commando (name withheld). He despite all odd fought bravely and killed 12 Chinese soldiers, single-handedly. When four Chinese soldiers cornered him, he pushed all four, one by one off the cliff. While pushing them down, he slipped off the cliff. His fall was arrested by a boulder, gravely injuring him. However, the fall and the injuries didn’t deter him. He pulled himself back to the fight and started fighting with the Chinese again. When he got a chance, he snatched a barbed wired stick from a Chinese soldier. Thereafter there was no stopping him. He killed seven more Chinese with their own weapon of treachery. In the melee, the brave heart was stabbed from behind by a cowardly Chinese soldier. The grievously injured Ghatak swung around killing the attacker before making the supreme sacrifice."

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Holy smoke, what a load of burnt cowdung!
 
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Interesting discussion about India-China relationship on Indian media site ThePrint between Prof Kanti Bajpai of the Lew Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow & China scholar at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. At the closing of the discussion Kishore Mahbubani suggested that India chose the losing side during the Cold War, and it may also have chosen the wrong side this time too, i.e., in the competition between the US and China.

I watched quite a few interviews and discussions that Kishore Mahbubani participated with various Indian media, his love-and-hate with India was quite obvious. Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani is well-known to be pro-China, but he is also ethnic Indian. So it's quite interesting to watch the his interactions with Indian media and pundits.


 
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