India has no intention to compete with China: Navy chief

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Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/india-has-no ... 963-3.html
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""The gap between the two is too wide to bridge and is getting wider by the day :| In military terms, both conventional and non-conventional, we neither have the capability nor the intention to match China force for force :oops: :( . These are indeed sobering thoughts and our strategy to deal with China would need to be in consonance with these realities. The economic penalties resulting from military conflict would have grave consequences for both nations. It would therefore be in both our interests to cooperate with reach other in mutually beneficial endeavours and ensure that potential for conflict is minimised" :|
Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sureesh Mehta tells CNN-IBN

New Delhi: Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta on Monday warned that Beijing was likely to be more assertive in its claims on the neighbourhood and called for countering its space and cyber-warfare capabilities.
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"China is in the process of consolidating its comprehensive national power and creating formidable military capabilities. Once that is done, China is likely to be more assertive on its claims, especially in the immediate neighbourhood," Mehta said at the National Maritime Foundation.

"China's known propensity for intervention in space- and cyber-warfare will be major planning considerations in our strategic and operational thinking," :oops: :geek: Mehta said during a lecture on 'National Security Challenges: An Overview'.

Commenting on the widening gaps between China's military might and India, Mehta said it would be foolhardy to compare India and China as equals, considering that Beijing was in the process of "consolidating" its comprehensive national power and creating formidable military capabilities. :oops: :| :(

"It is quite evident that coping with China will certainly be one of our primary challenges in the years ahead. Our trust deficit with China can never be liquidated unless our boundary problems are resolved," the Navy chief said.

India and China, which fought a war in 1962 :cry: , are yet to resolve their 4,500-km-long boundary issues :| . After the war, Beijing seized 36,000 sq km area in Jammu and Kashmir :cry: , while Pakistan unilaterally ceded 5,120 sq km area in Kashmir :x , occupied by it in 1947, to China under a pact in 1963. :x :evil:

 

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-Ofcourse when Reality sank in then Senses Prevailed :oops: :oops: :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol:

 

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:lol: :lol: :lol: Nabeel,,,Ever heard of Fairy tales :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :lol: :D

 

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nabeel bhai,
1. How does this article go against what i have written earlier? :shock: :?:
The Navy Chief is saying that it is not possible to match the Chinese, they are more developed, more advanced and more focused. :|
He is accepting the fact that the Chinese are superior militarily and even in the future will maintain that superiority.
So...instead of matching them, India should maintain a minimum deterance, which is what the nuclear submarine was about. :geek:

2. Yes, it is no longer India-Pakistan, now it is India-China and Af-Pak. 8-)
I have written in the same thread from which you have posted this that we are competing with China, and have been bracketed with them, because of certain similarities...eg. Large populations, developing countries etc.

You can compete with someone without going to war with them... :geek:


PS: And yes, "Hitler" Hamid and "Crazy" Quraishi are pseudo-analysts. :twisted:

 

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-- :lol: :lol: Caught red handed and still Moaning and Groaning 8-) 8-) Anyways Let me do Little Correction why would you even consider writing "Sri" his name suits well when Prefixed by "Delirious Moronic Fascist Bharat verma" the master of Ideology of Obsolete :lol: :lol: :lol: :ugeek:

We all know Well who're Psueudo-analysts and Amateurs and Real Critics :oops: :oops: :oops: :shock: :lol:

 

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Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta has said that India cannot match China in military capability. Former armed forces chiefs and defence analysts agree that Beijing is certainly more powerful, but say India need not be "overly concerned".

"China is more powerful nation but it is not that our capability is what it used to be earlier. We are much more capable now. It is difficult to match force by force," former Indian Air Force chief, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, told IANS.


The same opinion was echoed by former Indian Army chief, General V P Malik, who led the Army during the 1999 Kargil conflict with Pakistan.


"There is a sealing now on the scale of conflict between the two countries as both are nuclear armed nations. So the maximum we would see in terms would be a threshold of a full-fledged war. But there is nothing alarming," Malik said.


"What the Navy chief has projected is that our military asymmetry to China is similar to our asymmetry vis-a-vis our economies. Instead of matching China force by force we should harness technology more innovatively. It is not alarmist at all but a prudent suggestion that money allocated is spent and spent wisely," National Maritime Foundation director Commodore (retd.) C. Uday Bhaskar said.


Terming China one of India's primary challenges, Mehta said at a lecture Monday that "it would be foolhardy to compare India and China as equals".


"Whether in terms of GDP, defence spending or any other economic, social or development parameter, the gap between the two is just too wide to bridge (and getting wider by the day). In military terms, both conventional and non-conventional, we neither have the capability nor the intention to match China, force for force," Mehta told an elite audience at the India Habitat Centre.


Earlier IAF chief Major, who retired on May 31, had said that China was a bigger challenge for India as little was known about its capability.


"What I meant was while it is easy to gauge the intentions of other countries, it is slightly difficult with China because it is a closed society. Moreover quantity does not matter but capability does. We need not be that overly concerned with China. We do not have to put them on such a high pedestal," Major said.


The Chinese armed forces overrun the Indian armed forces in sheer numbers. While India has a 1.3 million strong army, China's is around 2 million.


However, the Chinese air force and navy have been lagging behind in terms of quality platforms and vessels. However, China has increased its defence spending exorbitantly to achieve rapid modernisation of its two forces and lately has flexing muscles to spread its influence in the South Asian and Indian Ocean Regions.


The Chinese air force is at a nascent stage but the infrastructure that it is coming up with in north-eastern region is cause for concern, say Indian military experts.


Caught unawares, the Indian Air Force has also started work to revive its advanced landing grounds and upgrade its existing runways in the north-eastern states and Ladakh region bordering China.


India recently deployed its frontline fighter jets Sukhoi-30 MKI in Tezpur in Assam. Though a symbolic induction has been done, a squadron strength has not been completed yet, according to defence ministry sources.


The Chinese navy, which is currently termed as a 'brown water' navy with limited reach and endurance, does not operate a single aircraft carrier.


The Indian Navy, which operates one aircraft carrier, is already constructing indigenous aircraft carrier and nuclear submarine, compelling China to increase the pace of its efforts to get an aircraft carrier soon

 

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nabeel bhai,
1. INS Arihant is a nuclear ballistic missile submarine, it provides a second strike capability. It is not an offensive weapon, it is not an attack submarine. :geek: :|

2. I am not a defense expert, but from what i have heard, such submarines stay hidden under water and are extremely difficult to locate, and this is the advantage they provide. :geek:
If the submarine is equipped with a say, 3000km range missile, then it doesn't need to be in the South China sea or the Pacific ocean to do its job. :geek:

3. This is not a weapon to establish supremacy, that is done by Aircraft Carriers. This is a weapon of deterrence. 8-)

4. Why was Operation Dwarka also known as Operation Somnath? Can you please tell me...i don't know the reason... ;)

 

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