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ArjunMK1
06-30-2005, 12:34 PM
During 65 war Pakistan was ahead of india in alost all respect , technologically, logistically, internationally and on average soldier standard .
Pakistan had patton tanks and sabre jets , which at that time were best fighting machines.
PN had subs, one leased from US and other two purchased from France, IN at that time had no subs and no ASW tech.
Pakistan had better radar installations which were built by the British before independence and further enhanced by the Americans.
Military airports like Sargodha, Karachi were at striking distance and were better equipped than the Indian counterparts . In Karachi PN had its base and IN had its base at Bombay far from western war zone, so PN had a real advantage and it could have surrounded western coast and bottled IN.
And lastly according to the British taboloids each Pakistani soldier was equal to three of its Indian counterpart .

But having all these advantages Pakistan failed to achieve a decisive victory , instead it became a stalemate .
I want relevant discussion forom you .

yasser
06-30-2005, 12:40 PM
During 65 war Pakistan was ahead of india in alost all respect , technologically, logistically, internationally and on average soldier standard .
Pakistan had patton tanks and sabre jets , which at that time were best fighting machines.
PN had subs, one leased from US and other two purchased from France, IN at that time had no subs and no ASW tech.
Pakistan had better radar installations which were built by the British before independence and further enhanced by the Americans.
Military airports like Sargodha, Karachi were at striking distance and were better equipped than the Indian counterparts . In Karachi PN had its base and IN had its base at Bombay far from western war zone, so PN had a real advantage and it could have surrounded western coast and bottled IN.
And lastly according to the British taboloids each Pakistani soldier was equal to three of its Indian counterpart .

But having all these advantages Pakistan failed to achieve a decisive victory , instead it became a stalemate .
I want relevant discussion forom you .

this has been discussed, what you "want" from us is irrelevant. Search the site, but generally you will find that it was our politicians that held us back in 1965, that and teh fact that the US slapped an embargoe on us (all of Indias weapons being British/French, this did not effect them).

Usman Shabbir
06-30-2005, 01:02 PM
During 65 war Pakistan was ahead of india in alost all respect , technologically, logistically, internationally and on average soldier standard .
Pakistan had patton tanks and sabre jets , which at that time were best fighting machines.
PN had subs, one leased from US and other two purchased from France, IN at that time had no subs and no ASW tech.

Topic already discussed before - kindly search the forum before opening new threads.

PS. Also do some research on the contents of your post. For example PN only had one submarine (PNMS/M Ghazi) during the 65 war and as far PAF having Sabres - IAF also had Hunters, which were more capable compared to Sabres.