Lt Gen H S Panag PVSM, AVSM (R) served in the Indian Army for 40 years. He was GOC in C Northern Command and Central Command. Post retirement, he was Member of Armed Forces Tribunal.
General offr good to know the olive guys are realising the centrality of air power in 21st century.
However, while the thoughts expressed by you are logical but I differ with your reluctance to be critical with the imported idea of theatre command.
With no out of area contingency plans in place or desired the limited resources of IAF can not do justice to any such ideas.
I fail to understand why you can’t call out this army generals fetish for what it was thought to be i.e. under command resources and mathematical fetish of resource allocation in proportion of head count .
Still can’t agree with you more for sense of urgency required to equip IAF with contemporary weapon platforms.
No doubt IAF needs a transformation. However as one air-force pilot explained, fighter jets are increasingly becoming replaced by drones, missiles, etc. There are only two 5G fighters available for India to buy, SU-57 and F-35, but neither is up to the standard IAF needs. Also the so called 5th fighter jets are captured by Indian radars, hence Rafales and SU-30 MKIs are sufficient. India needs to have more missiles and drones, more space capabilities and get engines faster with all servicing capabilities in India itself and increase its capacity to build Tejas Mk2. Also AMCA must be upgraded to 6G.
Socialism addicted India can afford to but only one 1G fighter jet. Itna paisa mein itnaich milega. If comrade Kejriwal becomes the prime minister, India will not but even that 1G fighter jet also.
General offr good to know the olive guys are realising the centrality of air power in 21st century.
However, while the thoughts expressed by you are logical but I differ with your reluctance to be critical with the imported idea of theatre command.
With no out of area contingency plans in place or desired the limited resources of IAF can not do justice to any such ideas.
I fail to understand why you can’t call out this army generals fetish for what it was thought to be i.e. under command resources and mathematical fetish of resource allocation in proportion of head count .
Still can’t agree with you more for sense of urgency required to equip IAF with contemporary weapon platforms.
No doubt IAF needs a transformation. However as one air-force pilot explained, fighter jets are increasingly becoming replaced by drones, missiles, etc. There are only two 5G fighters available for India to buy, SU-57 and F-35, but neither is up to the standard IAF needs. Also the so called 5th fighter jets are captured by Indian radars, hence Rafales and SU-30 MKIs are sufficient. India needs to have more missiles and drones, more space capabilities and get engines faster with all servicing capabilities in India itself and increase its capacity to build Tejas Mk2. Also AMCA must be upgraded to 6G.
Socialism addicted India can afford to but only one 1G fighter jet. Itna paisa mein itnaich milega. If comrade Kejriwal becomes the prime minister, India will not but even that 1G fighter jet also.