India is outnumbered and outclassed technologically and numbers by at least 2-1 in nearly every category. It would take China very little time to establish air superiority over India in open conflict.
I’ve spent a lifetime dealing with Indian technologists, some of them are brilliant, most of them are very sub par. I have had to clean up countless messes made by them over the years... they are caste culture that won’t tell the truth to those who they view as above them. India does not have a culture, let alone the firepower, to take on the chicoms in open warfare and win.
30 or 40. years ago, a war between these two would have likely boiled down to who could offer up the most cannon fodder... Today, it’s not even a contest, India would be beaten handily.
Amid border dispute with China, defence forces get powers to buy critical weapons, ammunition
The Air Force had emerged as the biggest beneficiary of the powers granted by the government after the Balakot airstrikes as they procured large number of equipment including the Spice-2000 air to the ground stand off missiles, Strum Ataka air to ground missiles along with multiple spares and air to air missiles for its aerial fleet.
The Army has acquired the Israeli Spike anti-tank guided missiles along with the precision-guided Munitions from America.