Hydropneumatic Tanks

Comparison of the respective weapon systems in the arsenals makes little sense in the India-Pakistan context. Pakistan has always had technologically superior weapons because of its access to western arms bazaars particularly the US for being a lackey in the anti-communist phalanx.Being a member of the Baghdad Pact, later called the Central Treaty Organization along with Iran under Shah Reza Pehlavi, it got the latest tanks and aircraft in return for bases from where the US launched reconnaissance aircraft to spy on the former Soviet Union till a U-2 spy-plane flown by Gary Powers was shot down near Moscow. But it has never won a war against India.Even in Jammu and Kashmir in 1948 when it had a head-start with the Pakistan Army-led tribal mujahids knocking at the gates of Srinagar, the arrival of the Indian Army just at the nick of time saw the conspiracy rolled backwards and only the strategic blunder by India for depending on the UN for a fair settlement allowed Pakistan a locus standi that is based only on India’s error rather than any great military acumen on the part of Pakistan.