'PLA Air Force Is Being Built For Strategic Coercion,' Say Former IAF Officers 

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More shiny than #Xi face

They know everything man

They know more than these people brother, use some of your brain.

February 27'19,when Pakistan Air Foece, (PAF), aircrafts intruded into India, jammed radars & communication system of Indian Air Force, (IAF),shot down a MIG-21 & SU-30,without a potent challege & with complete impunity bombing around key Indian military installations, in broad daylight, exposed how weak, unprofessional,untrained ,lacking in skills & air war expertise, IAF is ! IAF is in no position to take on PLA air force & will be thoroughly trounced by the Chinese. !

@Bruce Gilder This would make sense. Sending fleets of bombers in is obsolete I believe because of missile technology. They have lasers with capabilities we really know nothing about because they don't want to show their hand. Man's genius for self-destruction knows no bounds.

Bombers are used only when there's a dominance of enemy airspace. Otherwise a bomber is just like a good target for any small aircraft for shot practice

OK

Thats deliberate for ensuring we always remain a weak easily exploitable place

Its “panel” not “penal”

No staline... said it..in ww2

Not true brother quality must be some how at par you can't fight 5 fighter get with 100 transport aircraft

@Apoorv Chauhan Mig 21s will win, Of course Quantity matters. I know it. . Damn we're 29 squardons and even Pak is 22.

It's stalin

Should watch Security Scan then. They are like this everyweek.

Definitely Security scan ki to baat hi alag h

Russia No.2 with some 3000 aircrafts. USA No. 1 with some 10,000 aircrafts including 5th gen fighters.. . That is what happens when you have money and your public don't hate the rich people unlike India where we continuously bash AMBANI.

Their navy has more aircrafts than most air forces. On its own , it's the 2nd largest air force

Sensible comment

Listen to Abhijit Mitra iyer you will get the answer. No interaction with outside world. A sophisticated buerocrasy with no broad outlook. No private participation in R&D and production.

They need to keep up the morale of the army when they are in service but when they are retired they can speak to their mind

No war doctrine No strategy No will power to spend on R &D Shying away from privatisation Inability to think out of box Lack of understanding the imp of air power & defecient leadership / management Misplaced ideas and dirty cocktails of Russian Israeli western platforms Lack of funds .... the only solution is either join the US league like Japan, S korea, Taiwan We simply dont have the funds to match the chinese with a falling economy.

yep well said

1st point i highly doubt it. We are not japan with the border tension like this any kind of airspace violation could be end up in a disaster for the chinese

Akki Rotti Sorry. Ever heard of limitations of PLAAF in ladakh? All these years, whiners said, we don't have enough fighters. Now they are whining there is no bombers. Why do we need strategic bombers for? Is going to bomb beijing?. How effective that junk H6 bombers can be without getting shot by IAF? Can they shoot and scoot in a full blown conventional war? No way Moreover, squadron numbers would improve significantly in next 5 to 10 yrs (even more than 42). Why these retired experts not discussing about usage of mig 19s and mig 21s by PLAAF? I am sure they are going to whine about Mig21 bisons for sure. Are they pitching in for more Russian junk like bombers? Frist comment itself exposed these fellows bitching and whining about Tejas. Don't they know that Tejas production is being ramped up significantly by HAL by setting up a second plant ? I can guarantee that they don't have any clue on the number of surface to surface and cruise missiles India has in its arsenal either.

@@indianmilitary you cannot rely on effectiveness or ineffectiveness of their bombers or jets. The fact is most of our jets are of Russian origin and the chinese have reverse engineered and employed 1000s of Russians to develop their aerospace sector. They also have large numbers and can therefore saturate our airspace. We dont have an effective air defence system. They have s 400 already operational. Lets be honest, air chiefs and officials cannot do much if the Govts dont sanction funds. They were forced to work with cheaper and easy to accquire Russian jets and tech becz Russians gave it to us at very easy terms and conditions. Chinese jets may not be high tech. But we too lag behind. Therefore, the only solution now is to firmly allign with the US and shun our good for nothing non allignment policy. We would have surpassed Japan, S korea and Taiwn had we joined the US in 1960s. The very fact that B2 bombers were placed shows that US is serious about Indo pacific and India's security. The chinese deployed DF 21s along Lac. The western jets (Rafale) deployment forced the chinese to deploy 2 J 20s and 5 H6 bombers along lac. Joining the US, buying readymade in use jets in bulk at once or leasing the US jets asap will send a message across. We should also join the F 35 ecosystem immediately. Chinese are actually testing our relationship with the US with the incursions.