{"id":210054,"date":"2022-10-10T20:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=210054"},"modified":"2022-10-10T20:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:07:50","slug":"is-iaf-ready-for-future-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/is-iaf-ready-for-future-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Is IAF ready for future wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cIs IAF ready for future wars\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong>on <strong>10th October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- security<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Challenges for security forces<\/p>\n<p><strong>News- <\/strong>The article shows the strengths and weaknesses of IAF. It shows the requirement of IAF in the context of hybrid wars.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What message does the recent use of the Air Force against China and Pakistan, convey?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It shows the determination of IAF to take action. It also conveys the willingness of political executives to take calculated risks.<\/p>\n<p>It also brought into focus several faultlines in IAF working in changing scenarios of war.<\/p>\n<p>One of the lessons learnt was in dealing with the after-effects of a strike. Lack of numbers, capability gap in long-range air to air missiles and other structural deficiencies in IAF defence networks and sensors resulted in suboptimal response.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is needed to strengthen the Air Force in the context of hybrid war?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There should be accelerated induction of mid-range indigenous platforms with sensors and weapons.<\/p>\n<p>There should be need-based and transparent import of <strong>high-end offensive capabilities<\/strong>. It must be linked with technology transfer for the next generation aerial system.<\/p>\n<p>Space domain should be treated at par with the land and maritime domain. The Air Force should get adequate representation at apex structures of national security.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force should move away from its rigid position. It should contribute to <strong>jointness, synergy and integration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are lessons from the use of air power in recent conflicts?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>In recent conflicts the use of air power was a determining factor to decide the outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Limited use of air power by India during Balakot strikes proved beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>Sustained use of airpower against ISIS ensured its defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Russian use of air power against Ukraine shows its limitations. It was not well coordinated, and without proper strategy. Poor training and lack of precision-guided weapons impacted its effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cIs IAF ready for future wars\u201d published in The Times of Indiaon 10th October 2022. Syllabus: GS3- security Relevance&#8211; Challenges for security forces News- The article shows the strengths and weaknesses of IAF. It shows the requirement of IAF in the context of hybrid wars. What message&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/is-iaf-ready-for-future-wars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is IAF ready for future wars?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-210054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702730097},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}