After one of the most serious flare-ups in violence India and Pakistan have witnessed in years, the state of their rival armed forces is again grabbing headlines.
India and Pakistan have once again threatened to descend into war after a recent exchange of hostilities across their mutually-disputed border, leading the state of their rival armed forces to capture international attention.
His Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, however, has been notably silent amid the recent crisis, saying only that"India will fight, live, work and win as one" at a press conference that made no mention of negotiations to cool down the heated feud. Neither nation was a signatory to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and both were among the most recent nations to test their weapons of mass destruction, followed only by North Korea. India and Pakistan both have methods of delivering strategic strikes by land and air, but the former was part of an even more exclusive club, being one of only four powers to have a nuclear submarine capable of launching nuclear-capable missiles up to 435 miles away.
In the air, India could mobilize 814 combat aircraft, nearly twice that of Pakistan, which had 425. India also had a much larger fleet, including an aircraft carrier, 16 submarines, 14 destroyers, 13 frigates, 106 patrol and coastal combatant vessels, and 75 combat-capable aircraft. Pakistan, which has much less access to the sea, commanded nine frigates, eight submarines, 17 patrol and coastal vessels, and eight combat-capable aircraft.
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