Also, the fighters each country fly aren't what I would've expected. They both have a bunch of French stuff. Pakistan has a lot of Chinese stuff and a decent amount of American fighters. The Chinese jets are the more advanced. India has a lot of Russian stuff, but the French jets are more advanced.
So, in the event of maximum escalation the alliances would be:
- The US would side with India who doesn't fly any US stuff (and be fighting against US made jets).
- The French would side with India (and be fighting against French made jets).
- Russia would side with India and be fighting alongside traditional adversaries in the US and French and in opposition to its ally in China.
- China would side with Pakistan and be supporting US and French made fighters and fighting against its ally in Russia.
- I don't know about munitions, supplies etc stockpiled, but it seems like that could be a big problem for Pakistan since they wouldn't be getting anything else from the US or France...so they'd be losing support to about half of their entire air force.
But what if it escalated beyond a regional conflict? Those alliances seem like they would get quite a shakeup. Russia would have to abandon India to align with China, right? Then India loses support for about half it its air fleet. Seems like these two countries have not properly thought past the first part of this little dust up. If they let things go too far, they both get the shit end of the stick.