The last major war that we fought was in 1971, so between then and 2025, there has been at least two quantum jumps in technology - battlefield transparency and networking, and the range of sensors and weapons. So Operation Sindoor was itself a learning lesson for the armed forces," Admiral Prakash said.
"... We struck, our intelligence was good, we struck deep into enemy territory, the precision of our weapons was excellent, we hit targets that we wanted to, the coordination between the three services was as required... So when the next round comes I am sure all the lessons learned from this phase of [Operation] Sindoor will be applied,"
"I think one of the important lessons for us was as to how, so far we used to say that look China would assist Pakistan during operations, during a conflict, etc. But I think this time it came out loud and clear that it is more like they are conjoined," General Pande
The Admiral also brought out two or three key issues. One is increased battlefield transparency through better sensors, better networking, and having longer-range weapons, whether surface-to-air or air-to-ground and so on. So like I said, the list can be endless, but primarily these are three or four factors which we think we should have been much stronger at that time and we should bid for better equipment and better hardware in future," Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari said.
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My take, Better supply chain, better maintenance of war equipment, simulation of test cases of what can go wrong and back up plan is must.