India should just make up with America, buy their weapons and prepare their military for ending Pakistan within this century or next.

Pakistan doesn't have Russian tanks. They were using some old US tanks and Chinese-developed tanks.

Yes, this is basic knowledge.

Why? Russia is willing to give full TOT to India, plus make them partners in their military industry while the US has slapped sanctions on India in the past, plus has traditionally supported Pakistan who India, has taken care of anyway without US equipment.

 

They could have done better though I will admit this is mostly because they didn't have the stamina to push further into P-stan when the numbers finally started to swing things heavily into their favor.

I agree the US has mostly taken the other side in this conflict, but Pakistan has suffered US sanctions too. I believe that if India could improve their relationship with the US (perhaps by passing the NPA and supporting US policies in Asia in order to contain China in their own interest) they would find the US begin to prefer them over the muslim, Chinese ally of Pakistan.

One of Pakistan's strengths have been American equipment. I realize Russian equipment is good, but American equipment has a long record of higher quality. If India could become a major client of the US military industry it might be possibly to leverage that to limit supplies to Pakistan, or even allowing for it to become politically possible for the Indian navy and air force to run interference or even blockade the Pakistani coast and dominate its airspace.

 

 

In the short run I agree with you, Russia is a better partner. But India needs to think long-term, and American weapons will continue to be better than Russian ones for a long time. That alone should be sufficient reason. Russia might support India against China, but it has supported Pakistan too.

If signing the NPA involves giving up their nukes, it would be an impossibly hard sell for India. Losing their nuclear deterrent in the face of a nuclear Pakistan is a non-starter.

 

That said, India has been improving relations with the US, witness the nuclear tech transfer agreement currently working its way through Congress. 

In the past Indian-Pakistani wars Pakistani weapons have come out superior except for that time when Pakistan did not have the technological expertise to use them in '71...link target="_blank">link

The funny thing about the bed rep the T72 has from Iraq is that Saddam's T72's were not even "real" T72's. He had a few copies of the export version of the first T72 varient. All the other "T-72's" that he had were clones of these export models. What must be remembered is that these tanks had much thinner and lower quality then the Soviet Issue tanks, as well as not as advanced fire control systems etc.

 

They are barely related to the T72's running around eastern Europe and Russia at the moment.

Doesn't India put French Fire control systems in their T-90s?

 I sure would hate to be the guy in charge of logistics for India's miliary establishment.

 

 However that being said and if I was buying new tank for the India's armed forces I would think I would go for the Merkava IV if the weight issue was not too restrictive.