India's military strength ranks fourth in the world. Is it worthy of the name?

Although India's military strength ranks fourth in the world, it is not worthy of the name. You know, many military rankings are just firepower rankings. His ranking is mainly based on paper-based combat power, but for actual combat, this ranking is not convincing and cannot be reflected by this truth.

After all, India is a populous country with a population of 65.438+0.3 billion, so it has an army of more than 65.438+0.3 million, ranking fourth in the world in terms of scale. In addition, India maintains the throne of "the world's number one arms buyer" all the year round, and buy buy buys advanced weapons from the United States, Russia, Europe and other countries. Therefore, the Indian army can form an army with considerable paper strength.

Indian Apache helicopter gunship

In terms of the navy, all three countries have aircraft carriers. However, France is a 40,000-ton ejection aircraft carrier, and the carrier-based aircraft is a 3.5-generation rafale fighter; Britain already has two 60,000-ton ski-jump aircraft carriers, and the carrier aircraft is a new generation of F-35B. For the time being, India has only one 40,000-ton ski-jump aircraft carrier, carrying the third-generation MIG 29K. According to the calculation of our navy, under the same tonnage, the comprehensive combat capability of catapult aircraft carrier is four times that of ski-jump aircraft carrier. If the performance of carrier-based aircraft is half a generation to one generation, the combat capability gap of Indian aircraft carriers will be relatively large.

In terms of submarines, France has six "Ruby" class nuclear submarines; Britain has four Trafalgar-class nuclear submarines and three avant-garde nuclear submarines. India has the Russian nuclear submarine "Cheetah" and 10 conventional submarines (Kilo class, squid class, type 209, etc. If there is a problem of low attendance rate of British nuclear submarines at present, India's performance is not so good: during the conflict between India and Pakistan a few days ago, a newly commissioned "squid" class in India tried to demonstrate, but Pakistan forced it out of the water. In this regard, France's performance is still good. In the exercise with the American aircraft carrier battle group, the record of sinking many ships was obtained. Obviously, in terms of submarines, Britain and France have stronger ocean-going combat capabilities.

The Indian "chakra" attacked the nuclear submarine ("Cheetah")

In terms of destroyers, the performance of the three countries in terms of scale and performance is not very good (the British Type 45 destroyer is better), so it is difficult to have comparative interest. Generally speaking, France has an advantage in the navy.

Although India is now a well-deserved hegemon in South Asia militarily. But in South Asia, except Pakistan, the military strength of other small countries is negligible. But if we want to compare with international countries, India is still far behind. After all, the level of India's defense industry is incomparable even compared with Japan, Germany and South Korea.