How to evaluate India's nuclear weapons and military level?

India is one of our important neighbors, and its huge army and all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment have always been one of the hot topics for military fans. Among them, such as the glorious fighter, Arjun main battle tank and self-built aircraft carrier are all jokes of military fans for a long time. However, how should we objectively evaluate India's nuclear weapons and military level?

First of all, judging from the self-research ability of military industry, we all know that the self-research ability of China military industry is particularly strong. Military enterprises provide our army with a large number of advanced weapons and equipment every year. Almost all tanks and armored vehicles of the Army, guns and ammunition, almost all warships and weapons of the Navy, and most fighters of the Air Force are self-sufficient, and can even be exported overseas, occupying a place in the world military trade market. On the other hand, India is not only the largest importer of weapons in the world, but also its self-research ability is appalling. Arjun tank has been developed for 40 years. According to Zhao Zhong, director of the bureau, when he was 20 years old, he heard that Arjun tank was being developed. Now that he's retired, so is Arjun. He retired when it was developed! Not only Arjun tanks, but also the air force's LCA "Glory" fighter has been developed for 30 years, and has not been mass-produced and put into service so far. It took our army 18 years to develop J- 10. But J- 10 has served more than 400. What is the service number of LCA? The army, like the air force, is no better than the navy. The destroyer dragged on, and the aircraft carrier joked about launching three times, not to mention that the China Navy launches a fleet every year, which is the level of Indian shipbuilding. Just look at its shipbuilding enterprises. Even if there is no large gantry crane, the frigate can be sunk by simple lifting and maintenance in the dock. What is its military strength? We should know that the necessary hardware facilities for military industry are the indicators that can best reflect the ability of self-research. Don't you know that Britain has to import gantry cranes from China to build its own aircraft carrier?

Secondly, it depends on whether the military industry and the entire national defense industry have long-term strategic planning. Let's start with China. Even in relatively difficult times, China has not relaxed its support and investment in the defense industry. During the period when military industry gave way to economic construction, China also maintained its military development team through projects such as Type 99 main battle tank, J- 10 fighter and Type 052 destroyer. Long-term strategic planning has finally come to the development results of various equipment today. Looking at India again, not only is there no long-term national defense strategy and military development plan, but a large number of purchased equipment cannot be integrated. Even the purchased equipment has a lot of corruption problems. The Indian military is ambitious and does not respect the scientific laws of the development of military industry, which directly leads to the low level of Indian military capabilities.

Finally, just look at the level of nuclear weapons. Nearly 20 years have passed since India 1998 conducted a nuclear test. But India has not yet developed hydrogen bombs, only plutonium bombs and uranium bombs, not to mention the miniaturization of nuclear weapons and the new generation of nuclear weapons such as neutron bombs and electromagnetic pulse bombs. Indian ballistic missiles are not only far behind the five nuclear powers such as China, but also inferior to traditional Pakistani rivals in some technologies. India has about 100 nuclear warheads, but most of them are atomic bombs, with limited strategic strike capability. Because there is no "two-bomb combination" test of nuclear bomb and missile, its specific strike capability is still in doubt.

In a word, as a developing country, it is obviously unrealistic for India to develop high-end military industry when its economic system is still not perfect. It is more appropriate to describe India's military industry with the phrase "I want to run without learning to walk". The development of military industry should follow scientific laws and develop step by step, instead of setting various advanced and unrealistic goals for military R&D departments, with consequences like India's.