Do you still remember the May 7 India-Pakistan air battle that broke out in the first half of the year?

For this air battle, when the international community believes that the Pakistani Air Force has gained an advantage in flying a Chinese fighter J-10CE, India still adopted a "victory narrative" and once celebrated the so-called "victory" at home.

What is even more surprising is that the Indian people naturally accepted the victory promoted by the government. Some people even used this to diverge their thinking and assumed that China and India started a war, and then pointed out that "even China cannot defeat India."

【India celebrates the so-called "victory"】

And there are Indian netizens who went directly to the foreign version of Zhihu "Quora" to discuss the issue of "If China and India start war again, India can defeat China" to post strange conclusions:

"Once the war breaks out, China may be killed by (India) within a week."

Why do Indian netizens think so?

In a nutshell, he "sees" a so-called "China's great weakness".

【Related questions on "Quora"】

【Answer given by Indian netizens】

Indian netizens talk about "Chinese weaknesses"

This so-called "China's great weakness" is summed up in four words - "Geography is very poor."

Indian netizens said that if war breaks out again between China and India, the battlefield is likely to be in the Himalayas.

The Himalayas are very desolate and have a high altitude, and it is very difficult to carry out infrastructure construction.

This means that as long as India blows up the Sino-Indian border first, China will have key bridges and all-weather channels on the side of China, and block the mountain passes from preventing China from repairing the bridge passages, even if the PLA has many armored vehicles and tanks, it will not be able to effectively advance the front line.

Not only that, the high altitude of the Himalayas also restricted the performance of the Chinese Air Force.

【Chinese Air Force】

Because high altitude means thin oxygen, aircraft using jet engines keep flying here will generate more fuel consumption, requiring more logistical supplies.

But China's bridges and passages will be blown up by India in advance, and China will not be repaired in the short term. The Chinese Air Force will not get enough logistics supplies and it will be difficult to exert its strength.

This is on land, and then Indian netizens also analyzed that at sea, he believed that China is still "poor geography".

Because The Strait of Malacca is under India's control.

【Geographical location of the Strait of Malacca】

If the People's Liberation Army seeks the Indian Navy from here, it will be ambushed by the Indian Navy and face serious losses.

To sum up, Indian netizens came to the conclusion that "China will be defeated by India in one week."

What is the actual situation?

Objectively speaking, there is something right in this analysis by Indian netizens, that is, the geographical environment of the Sino-Indian border is really poor, but he only said this correctly.

After all, China has overcome this so-called "weakness", for a long time.

【People's Liberation Army stationed in the plateau area】

Let's say one by one:

Indian netizens said that infrastructure construction in the Himalaya region is difficult, and China cannot recover in the short term after key bridges and channels are bombed. This not only underestimates the air defense construction on China's border, but also underestimates China's infrastructure capabilities.

The People's Liberation Army attaches great importance to air defense construction in the Tibet Plateau area. For example, as early as 2022, a brigade of the Tibet Military Region organized a live-fire drill for multiple air defense weapons in the Himalayas at an altitude of 4,600 meters, fully verified the performance of domestic air defense weapons in high-altitude areas.

The air defense nets woven by various advanced air defense weapons are almost impossible for India to carry out air strikes.

[A brigade of the Tibet Military Region organized live-fire drills for multiple air defense weapons in a training ground with an altitude of 4,600 meters]

Even if you succeed once, China will have absolute infrastructure strength to quickly restore it. After all, China's infrastructure is able to shelve the "world's longest cross-sea bridge" on the sea, build the "world's tallest bridge" in the mountains, and build a large hydropower station in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River. .

And Indian netizens said that the PLA's logistics supplies will not be able to keep up, which is even more outrageous.

The logistics support of the PLA's Plateau Border Defense Force is very sound. It has a special oxygen supply room, a portable oxygen supply device specially prepared to use for border guards when patrolling the border, and field feeding equipment that can ensure hot food anytime and anywhere, making it impossible for the PLA to eat hot pot in the plateau area. As for warm and windproof military uniforms, sleeping bags, tents, etc., it is all available.

[People's plateau border guards can eat hot pot]

It is much better than the Indian army on the opposite side.You should know that the Indian army on the opposite side has been exposed to the situation of eating pig feed and being frozen to death more than once.

References:

【1】"If a conflict breaks out between China and India and triggers a full-scale war, can the Indians defeat the Chinese? 》 Quora

【2】《Live ammunition drill for multi-type air defense weapons, weave tight and dense aerospace firepower network》 China Military Network[2022.8.5.]

【3】《China Radio International "Military Literature Window"丨The wind and snow border, unforgettable hotpot meal》 China Radio International Military[2020.12.20.]