The Indian military's actions in the border areas have been interpreted by the outside world as a targeted action of the "four-way dialogue mechanism" of the United States, Japan, India and Australia, which is intended to contain China in the two strategic directions of the East and the West with the United States, Japan and other countries. In fact, the large number of border military deployments adopted by the Indian military in recent years are not unrelated to this strategy, and they want to take this opportunity of strategic competition among major powers to achieve India's rise. Therefore, whether it is the "forward strategy" of the Indian Army in the border areas or the "eastward strategy" of the Indian Navy in the western Pacific, it is inseparable from India's own attempt to seek a world power.
Since the Indian army encountered a wall at the thirteenth military commander-level meeting, the Indian military activities in the border areas have become more frequent and more offensive, and the entire northern border has deployed an unprecedented 230,000 troops, and it is also equipped with a large number of American-made weapons and equipment, such as the M777A2 howitzer, CH-47F Chinook transport aircraft, in addition to the Israeli "Heron" drone, the French "Rafale" fighter, the South Korean K9 howitzer and the Swiss-made SIG 716 long-range precision shooting rifle.
Although India's comprehensive national strength is far inferior to that of China, and its military strength is not enough to engage in a comprehensive confrontation with China, India is still aggressive in the border issue. The fundamental reason for this is that India firmly believes that the southeast direction is the most important strategic direction for our country at present, and the situation in the Taiwan Strait has a bearing on the great cause of China's reunification, and it is also the main battlefield of the Sino-US strategic game. Therefore, India believes that in the southwest direction of our country, India has a strategic initiative, or a certain military advantage.
From the perspective of the campaign, India has a superficial superiority in troops in the border areas. Because China's positions on the border side are located at high altitudes, which is not conducive to the infrastructure of military facilities, logistical supplies, and the long-term deployment of fighters, while most of the Indian border side is in low altitude areas, it has a considerable advantage in the number of airfields, the number of deployed fighters, and the strength of troops. The plateau area has a great impact on the air force, extreme climate, thin air, rugged terrain will make the performance of the fighter a lot lower, and India's fighters take off from the plain area has a greater advantage. The Sino-Indian border area belongs to the plateau and mountainous terrain, and it is difficult for our army to fully exert its superiority in mobile combat capabilities. It is precisely because of the dual superiority in land and strength that the Indian army will show a positive offensive strategic thinking.
Air Force Strategy
In the air cover of the former enemy area, the Indian army will certainly send its most powerful Rafale fighters in service to seize the air supremacy in the theater, but the number of Rafale fighters that the Indian Air Force can put into combat will not be too large. It is reported that the Indian army currently deploys only 3 "rafales" to the border area, while the Indian army has a total of 29 aircraft. And China has a powerful J-20 fifth-generation fighter, one is due to the adverse impact of China's terrain environment, China will no longer dispatch third- and fourth-generation aircraft whose performance will be limited, and second, China now has a large number of J-20s, even if the southeast strategic direction will contain most of the J-20, but it is still completely fine to dispatch a certain number of J-20s. The J-20 conducts air superiority operations with the "Rafale", and its stealth performance plus the long-range PL-15 air-to-air missile can completely crush the "Rafale" of the Indian Air Force and seize the air supremacy in the theater.
Although the Indian army has more military airfields in the border areas, these airfields are within the range of China's long-range firepower. Because there are many Indian Air Force airfields located more than 100 kilometers away from the front line, such as Licheng Airport and Tispur Airport, these airports are completely under the saturation of China's long-range rocket artillery. Our rocket artillery and tactical missile forces are able to suppress the enemy's deep targets and clear these airfields at a fixed point. For key targets such as airfields or air defense systems located 300 kilometers away, they are within the range of our army's DF-15 and DF-16, so that the scope of the strike is on the Mumbai and Visakhapatnam fronts. Coupled with our army's bomb-6K with a combat radius of thousands of kilometers, it is completely possible to strike at the deep military targets of the Indian army outside the defensive zone.
For the Indian army's heron drone, there is no need to be afraid. This kind of medium and air long flight unmanned aerial vehicles can only play their due performance in low-intensity wars, and in the face of a series of powerful air defense weapons such as fighter jets and air defense systems, only the share of being shot down. Of course, the cost of shooting down the UAV with fighters or missiles is a bit high, our army's non-detectable -7 or non-detectable -8 UAV can shoot down the Heron by installing a radar-infrared dual-mode system with air-to-air missiles, if it is to convert the non-detectable -7 into an anti-UAV fighter, it will have a greater advantage, basically realizing dimensionality reduction strikes, and can also transmit real-time battlefield dynamics and information to the rear command and control center.
Army strategy
In view of the fact that the Indian army has deployed a large number of ground troops in the border area, our ground troops can take flexible defense in the first stage, after all, the Indian army has two or three times the advantage in terms of strength. Although the Indian army is equipped with ground firepower such as the AMERICAN M777A2 and K9 howitzers, our army can completely rely on the range advantage of our artillery system to consume the effective strength of the Indian army. The range of our PCL-181 155mm howitzer and AR-3 300mm rocket launcher are above the weapons and equipment of the Indian army, and the effective killing in the elastic defense stage will directly invalidate India's "man sea" tactics. In the next counterattack, the Type 15 light tank equipped by our army will exert its huge maneuvering advantage, compared with the T-72, which is underpowered by the Indian army on the plateau, the Type 15 light tank can compete with the T-72.
On the southwestern border issue, we have always been negotiating with India from an objective and rational point of view, trying not to further aggravate the problem. We must attach great importance to the deployment of a large number of air and ground forces in the border areas of the Indian army and be prepared to deal with small-scale military conflicts and even local wars. Although the Indian army occupies a certain military advantage in the border area, but this is only temporary, we have deployed a large number of troops in the depth area, once the situation changes, we can quickly increase troops to the border, so the military superiority of the Indian army does not actually exist. Although we also need to invest a lot of troops in the southeast direction, we have the strength and confidence to deal with any threat in the southwest direction, and the two-front war is not impossible!