U clearly have comprehensive issues..
1. I asked if PLAAF have fielded their frontline fighters in any war games with any major air force ?
2. I made it clear that battle proven is not comprehensive metric to measure the worthiness of a fighter.
3. Typhoon/rafales/SU30MKIs have either taken...
China's aircrafts are not battle proven fine... but what about war games ? any joint exercises with any major air force ? Plz don't say PAF now.. seriously.
The article has itself highlighted the temporary inability of PN to match the class of Akula-II for a long time so let's not reiterate it unnecessarily.
IMO, the best thing will be quickly induct the 4 arihant class SSBNs and then work on induction of double hulled ultra-quite SSNs of the class...