Oct. 01 (China Military News cited from indianexpress.com) — A year after China paraded its military might to mark 60 years of Communist rule, an internal study by South Block shows that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is way ahead of India in terms of strategic missiles, artillery, development of indigenous military hardware and acquisition. This comparison study has been shared with the UPA government at the highest levels.
China’s defence budget, pegged at $77.5 billion, is more than twice that of India’s $32-billion but its 2009 military parade has set off alarm bells in Delhi given the shortcomings in indigenous production capability and gaps in acquisition of military hardware — for a few years now, the Defence Ministry has not been able to spend the allocated capital for modernisation of the armed forces.
This is what the internal study found:
The PLA has a clear lead over the Indian Army in terms of infantry weapons, armoured personnel carriers (APCs) and artillery guns.
The Army has no answer to the Chinese QBZ-97 Type 97-2 5.8/5.56 mm anti-riot gun, the AK-74 modified QBZ-95 Type 95 automatic rifle, the M-16 NATO rifle modification Type 95B carbine.
The 9 mm Indian Army sub-machine gun (SMG) is considered inferior to the Chinese Type 5 sound-dampener 9 mm SMG, a modified version of the German Heckler & Koch MP 5 SMG. The original HK MP-5 is used by the Special Protection Group in India.
The Indian 5.56 mm INSAS is considered superior to the Chinese 7.62 mm (Type 85) assault rifles but the PLA QBZ-95 automatic rifle is better than the Indian 7.62 mm standard issue rifle.
That’s great! All the comparisions sounds likes a little boys who wants to have everything better than his neighbor. This is the different between a boy and a man. The day the unstable boy get a real weapon is the time when the man have to kick him hard in the butt and tell him that these things could hirt or even parralize the boy simself.
as a military expert, i find this article very interesting in terms of military weaponary knowledge.
politically, i agree with kiemhao
“The Indian T-90 is superior to the Chinese ZTZ-96 A MBT in terms of firepower and accuracy.”
How do you know that? Did you happen to design both tanks or operate both tanks? I don’t think so.
This a childish pissing contest.
J-10 is much beter than those old MIG’s!
this all r bullshit…there will b no war…chinese companies will made not that happen..nobody strikes its own market….these all r political propaganda show of to sell more weapons and make money…as china also depends on private US arms company….check it out,,,,
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I doubt it. The military relationship between China and the us is almost nil. There is practically nothing american in the Chinese military.