OPERATION SINDOOR
ECONOMIC LOSSES OF
PAKISTAN
SARASIJ
MAJUMDER
It will be difficult for Pakistan to come
out of the loss it suffered in this 4-day KINETIC WAR, fought only in the airspace, involving Fighter Jets, Missiles, and DRONES as attacking weapons.
Pakistan claims that J-10C jets, equipped
with PL-15 missiles, were used in combat, and that they downed multiple Indian
Rafale and other fighter jets. GOI has not accepted any loss of Fighter
Jet. No image of Rafael lost is available.
GOI is not declaring the HITS it inflicted
upon Pakistan.
Even then, I have pieced together the
information and provided a picture.
A. The expenses due to direct losses of HARDWARE
may be divided into the following items: -
1.0 Fighter Jets: -- May be 10 Numbers.
4-F16 as a combat loss. 2 Nos. Mirage 2000 and 4 Nos. F16, possibly due to the hit
it received when parked on the Air Bases. However, this figure could be more. Pakistan's retired Air Marshal Masood Akhtar publicly
admitted on camera that the country's vital Airborne Warning and Control System
(AWACS) aircraft sustained damage during India's recent precision strikes under
Operation Sindoor. The total cost of this loss may be USD 400MM, considering depreciated values.
2.0 Missiles: -- Pakistan has fired at
least 400 missiles, including 2 Shaheen-3, and at least a few P-15. On the conservative (Less side), the total expenses on this account could be USD 375
MM. Many Pakistani missiles didn’t explode. On 8th May, they fired
about 300 Missiles. But later the number came down.
3.0 DRONES: -- Pakistan, most likely,
fired about 600 DRONES, mostly made by TURKEY, and 400 Nos. were Asisguard
Songers. The total cost on account of this may be $ 50 MM.
4.0 Air Défense System: - India has
destroyed two HQ-9 systems (equivalent to S-300), other types of air Défense systems
and RADARS. I will place the total cost on account of these at about USD $400MM.
B. INFRASTRUCTURE: --
The items are 9 Terror Camps, 26 Bunkers
at Borders, and 11 Air Bases having buildings, tunnels, runways, Launchpads,
bunkers, heavy foundations and Hangers are the main components destroyed, or
suffered damage.
I have worked out seeing the damaged
images, and available information on dimensions. I know some structural details
of these components. Also—cost data are available in internet. Accordingly—it
works out to $300/- as a damage loss.
C. Operating Cost: -- Pakistan must have
kept systems in Alert, and Operational mode at least from 21/04/2025, or a few
days before.
It may be still operational. It is about
Average $15.0MM per day. For one month, as of now—it works out to $450MM.
I have ignored the additional expenses for
enhancement of Military at BORDER.
REBUILDING: -
Building a new air base with an integrated
air Défense system can cost anywhere from $300 million to billions,
depending on the size, features, and technological complexity of the air
Défense system.
Assuming an average of $150 million/damaged Base
for Rebuilding, Upgrading, and modernising, it may cost about $1.65 Billion!
Hence, the final number is as below:
1.0 Cost
of War, including Asset loss, and operational Cost:-$1,975MM, or $2.0 Billion.
This could be more.
2.0 Rebuilding,
Repair, including Asset Replacement:- $ 1.65 Billion.
3.0 40
Nos.J-35 Pakistan contracted to buy from China: $2.5 Billion, considering 50%
Discount.
4.0 I
assume that the maintenance cost of the Nuclear armament storage and system all complete, is borne by the USA. Otherwise, that is about $2.0 billion per year for about 150 no’s
Nuclear warheads, carrier, mating system, testing, etc., all complete.
REFERENCES: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpot2OJ_yyE&t=29s
28.0 Number You tubes and Publications were reviewed to
write this BLOG. If anybody is interested, the list will be supplied in a personal ID.
Not posted here as it will be too big.
Disclaimer:- This BLOG is posted for “Information &
Education” purposes only.
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