At the end of last year, Russia delivered the first S400 air defense system to India, and this air defense system will be deployed in the border area in the near future, and after obtaining this system, India instantly felt that it was much safer, without having to face China's stealth fighters and drones without the slightest counterattack, and began to jump up at the border again, constantly conducting some military exercises, and deploying a new batch of weapons.
And the new year began, the 15th of this month is the Indian Army's "Army Day", in order to commemorate their own day, India released a promotional video called "Indian Army 2022" on this day, in this propaganda film they showed a variety of weapons of the Indian Army, including India's first modern main battle tank "Arjun" main battle tank, as well as their own development of the "Pinaka" rocket launcher, "Akash" medium-range air defense missile that took decades to develop, And his own recent arrival of the SIG-716 assault rifle. In addition to showing its "strong strength" in domestic weapons, India also showed its achievements in the field of artificial intelligence and drones.
This promotional film does not seem to have any special meaning on the surface, but if you look closely, you will find that India's promotional video is specifically aimed at the mainland, because the weapons and equipment in this promotional film happen to be the mainland's area of expertise, especially the mainland's VT series main battle tanks, Rainbow Pterodactyl series drones are very popular products in the international market in recent years, and in terms of artificial intelligence, the mainland is in the world's leading position. Even the United States says that the mainland's artificial intelligence technology has surpassed the United States too much.
In addition to the several weapons on display, the trailer also shows a large number of weapons deployed at the Sino-Indian border, and India also wants to achieve absolute control over the Sino-Indian border through this force deterrence. In the Sino-Indian border, especially the so-called "Ladakh" area, this area is the most intense place of conflict between China and India, both sides have deployed a large number of military forces here, India has even purchased from the United States 3 "Apache" and MiG-29 deployed in this area, it can be said that it took a huge amount of thought, after all, the famous "Apache" helicopter is not something that anyone can buy, and India actually deployed in a small border area after buying it, it is conceivable that India attaches great importance to it.
Of these new weapons on the border, the most notable is the K-9 self-propelled howitzer, which was developed by South Korea, which became the second country in the world to be equipped with a 52-caliber 155 mm self-propelled howitzer after acquiring this howitzer. This howitzer is equipped with a howitzer not only has a large caliber, range and reaction capability have reached an advanced level, the firepower is 3 times that of the American M109A2 self-propelled howitzer, using the liquid gas suspension device of the K1 tank, which has a very strong maneuverability, the maximum speed on the road can reach 67 kilometers per hour, the weight reaches 47 tons, and the range can reach 42 kilometers when firing shells.
Under India's money tactics, india and South Korea reached an agreement in April 2017 to purchase a batch of K-9 self-propelled howitzers, in which South Korea will provide India with 100 such howitzers. India will give $646 million to South Korea, of which 100 howitzers, 10 of which are produced by South Korea, the next 90 are assembled by India, so this howitzer can barely be called a "domestic howitzer", and in 2019, the Indian Army successfully received the first batch of "domestic" K-9 self-propelled guns and deployed them in the Indian Army's Western Command, and in 2021, according to South Korean reports, In order to deal with the threat posed by China to India at the border, India decided to deploy 3 K-9 self-propelled howitzers at the border.
However, it is not easy to say whether India's show muscles will become a joke at that time, because for example, India's "Arjun" main battle tank, from the beginning of the 70 years of the last century, it took 30 years to develop it, setting a record for the world tank research and development time, and in 2015, because of a large number of problems, most of the MK1 models were discontinued; as for the K-9 self-propelled howitzer that blew into the sky, it was a big joke in the "Yanping Island Gun Battle". 3 of the 6 cannons are faulty and cannot be used, and the remaining 3 are not able to hit the target, coupled with the military level of the Indian army itself, I only hope that these cannons will not be all unusable at that time.
As for India's idea of relying on rockets to deter the mainland, I'm afraid don't think too much, this is simply playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong, to know that the mainland's rockets are recognized as the world's first, you buy other people's products to deal with the mainland, I'm afraid it's not enough to see.