NEW YORK – A leading U.S. newspaper has presented a gloomy picture of India military capabilities and stated that the aerial combat with Pakistan in which it lost a fighter jet has ‘left observers a bit dumbfounded’. The News International reports. Continue reading original article
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
4 March 2019 -- “It was an inauspicious moment for a military the United States is banking on to help keep an expanding China in check,” the New York Times said in a hard-hitting analysis Sunday.
Comparing with Pakistan, the NYT said, India’s loss of a fighter jet last week to a country whose military is about half the size and receives a quarter of the funding was still telling.
“India’s armed forces are in alarming shape,” wrote Maria Abi-Habib, the NYT’s Staff Correspondent in South Asia.
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