Why wasting money on Fighter planes when the threat of terrorism&Naxalism is more?

Question

India is wasting money on fighter planes.Why buying all these costly planes when the threat of terrorists and Naxals are high.More than 50% of Indias area is under the hands of naxals.
The military needs more modern equipments like night vision,Bullet proof jackets.See the photos of US army men with there jackets and advanced rifles,Microphones they are well equipped.Yet they are dying in Iraq bcoz the whole country is aganist them.Such equipment levels for Indian soldiers.They will surely do much better.What good is fighter planes aganist
Naxals.We are well equipped to prevent direct confrontation with Pakistan.China will not attempt any such tactics bcoz the old attitudes have changed.Then why wasting money on costly fighters.

Answer 1

Simple economics my friend. "Commissions" payable on fighters are probably astronomically higher than that paid on binoculars and jackets !!! The politicians and bureaucrats have very deep pockets. Do you think they are sincerely interested in solving the Naxalite or any other problem? The main objective is how much and how soon. In the process if anything positive gets achieved they will take the credit, but that is not the primary objective. Never lose sight of the primary objective - its M.O.N.E.Y.

Answer 2

the fact of the matter is the government has a blank check they can write whatever they want on it and the companies that build there planes know this. Not to mention all the testing of aircraft that is necessary to get the plane flying the repeated tries and tries again all cost money as far as research and development and such all a big money waster. Those are the things to consider they are not just paying for 1 plane so to say they are making an investment into the future planes to come and so forth. It is a fairly reasonable price. Not to mention what these fighter planes are made of you have to take that into consideration before looking at it. But i am sure about 25% of the price of a plane is just pure profit for the company building it but when you can only sell so many it increases the price of it.

Answer 3

Investing in defence needs is for the safety and integrity of the country and the latest equipments in the defects act as deterrent for other countries. There are special commandos in the country deal with the menace of naxalism and terrorism. Otherwise entire country would have been in the hands of naxalites and terrorists. To face the menace of the anti social elements, Indian Government is acquiring modern gadgets so that threat may be dealt with effectively. So acquiring fighter planes is not waste of money. It would have its own benefits.

Answer 4

"Naxalite or Naxalism is an informal name given to radical, often violent, revolutionary communist groups that were born out of the Sino-Soviet split in the Indian communist movement. Ideologically they belong to various trends of Maoism. Initially the movement had its epicentre in West Bengal. In recent years, they have spread into less developed areas of rural central and eastern India, such as Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh through the activities of underground groups like the Communist Party of India (Maoist).[1] The CPI(Maoist) and some other Naxal factions are considered terrorists by the Government of India and various state governments in India.[2]" [See source.]

I posted the Naxal definition so everyone could be on the same page with their answers.

The truth is that even though terroism is the cause de guerre now, that does not mean it will stay that way. If/when governments mobilize their forces to attack/defend, more conventional wars will be fought. At which time, fighters will be useful for clearing the skys of enemy threats from bombers and attack aircraft.

Terrorism is useful/appealing when one force is in a significant minority with firepower. But when the aggressor is in the significant majority with firepower, shock and awe, using the conventional weapons of war, works best.

For example, Suddam Hussein was deposed in less than three weeks by conventional war waged by the U.S. Fighter aircraft (like the F115) did a lot of damage to the Iraqi communications and other infrastructures. That worked because the U.S. forces shock and awe tactics simply overwhelmed Saddam's conventional forces.

However, in the ensuing four years, insurgent and Al Quaeda terrorists have managed to thwart recovery and consolidation of Iraq even though they are in a significant minority. Clearly, when terrorists can hide amongst innocents, fighters and other conventional weapons of war are of little value.

If India could be assured its enemies would always be terrorists, it would make no sense to have fighters, attack aircraft, or other heavy firepower weapons. But it can't be assured. Governments that seem friendly can suddenly turn sour and pose a threat. And governments that seem unfriendly, but unlikely to attack, can become outright enemies and launch their military forces. If this were to happen, India and you would be glad it had modern, updated converntional weapons with which to protect the homeland.

Answer 5

they may be needed to some day fly your members of government and their families out of the country.

Answer 6

this world is getting more crazy watch bush,very soon george bush is coming to south india to go to the temple and shave is head coz' he is going under cover.
he is the root cause to this restless world.

Answer 7

if we don't purchase fighter planes, how the ministers will get kick-backs!

Answer 8

What is a naxal?

Answer 9

the whole system........(no only army)is wrong.......we really need a revolution.....shoot politicians.....then can we change....