DFI Lite

While many disagree but only way to hold against China's PLAAF, PLAGF, PLARF, is creation of India's Integrated Rocket Force with Brahmos, Pralay and AGNI-P, PLARF already deployed DF-11,15,16 & 21 since 90s against India and specially IAF >> 🇮🇳⚔️🇨🇳 PLARF would act as China's primary weapon to enforce its "System Destruction Warfare" doctrine against the IAF, it's aims to exploit structural vulnerabilities by achieving functional immunity through standoff ranges and executing a highly calculated, multi-tiered suppression profile against the IAF. In a high-intensity, opening-day offensive targeting the Indian Air Force (IAF) alone, defense analysts and wargames project that the PLA could launch an estimated 250 to 500 conventional precision missiles within the first 24 hours. Phase 0 : The Standoff Range Matrix PLARF's "Immunity" The PLARF achieves immunity from the IAF by positioning its primary conventional launch bases deep within the Chinese mainland such as Delingha, Korla, Xining, and Kunming, situated 600 to 1,500+ kilometers away from the Line of Actual Control. Phase 1: IAF C4ISR Decapitation Before targeting single aircraft, the PLARF will launch ballistic and hypersonic missiles to destroy the infrastructure that allows the IAF to see and communicate, would target the IAF's Eastern Air Command in Shillong and forward air defense radar nodes stationed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), this prevents the IAF from coordinating multi-squadron responses or properly tracking incoming Chinese assets. Phase 2: Trap the IAF Heavily coordinated salvos of ballistic missiles equipped with runway-penetrating sub munitions would rain down on vital frontline bases like Hasimara, Tezpur, Chabua, Leh, and Ambala, cratered runways and destroyed taxiways trap India's premium fighters on the ground. Phase 3: Logistics Depletion Sustained salvos of cruise missiles would target bulk Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricant (POL) storage, specialized missile assembly depots, and the repair/maintenance facilities adjacent to IAF airbases, Ground support equipment, specialized maintenance crews, and fuel infrastructure are far harder to replace during a war than concrete. By destroying these, the PLARF aims to critically reduce the IAF's "sortie generation rate"—meaning even if a runway is patched up, the planes lack the fuel or weapons to fly repeated missions.