Old Airman
Banned
If anything, India's switch to American hardware will decrease it's conventional capabilities. Soviet weapon systems had been designed to be operated and maintanted by barely literate soldiery and high-school grad officers. American equipment requires grunts to be high school grads (with very advanced specialized courses on the top of that) and university-educated officers. It is a common knowledge that any 3rd world country operating both American and Soviet weapon systems is consistently able to maintain higher percent of Soviet gear in working order. Pakistan is no exceptions. Why should India be?We came to the conclusion that there might not be a need for the nuclear option, as India's conventional arms would be pretty well above Pakistan's.