NEW DELHI – India’s military strength got exposed once again when the NewYork Times reported that its forces cannot last for more than ten days incase of intense warfare.
NYT revealed that Indian armed forces are in alarming shape at the moment,and if intense warfare breaks out tomorrow, India can supply ammunition toits troops for only ten days.
It has been told that 68 percent of the army’s equipment is so old, it isofficially considered “vintage.”
“Our troops lack modern equipment, but they have to conduct 21st-centurymilitary operations,” said Gaurav Gogoi, Indian lawmaker and member of theParliamentary Standing Committee on Defense.
The New York Times reported that the United States banks on Indian militaryto help keep an expanding China in check, and it was an inauspicious momentwhen an Indian Air Force pilot ended up as a prisoner of Pakistan afterlosing a dogfight with a warplane of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF).
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“The pilot made it home in one piece, however bruised and shaken, but theplane, an aging Soviet-era MiG-21, was less lucky.”
“The aerial clash, the first by the South Asian rivals in nearly fivedecades, was a rare test for the Indian military — and it left observers abit dumbfounded. While the challenges faced by the India’s armed forces areno secret, its loss of a plane last week to a country whose military isabout half the size and receives a quarter of the funding was stilltelling.”
