Both USA & India are expanding Embassies. I can see more CIA & RAW operatives sneaking around Islamabhad. BAD MOVE by Pakistan.
They seem powerless to say anything has the USA got a free hand ???
This Topic was about the The Americans beginning to TEST the F16 BLOCK70 a brand new AESA equipped F16 IN INDIA..
Some people in their anger and frustration at America,s hard selling of this plane have taken this way off topic.
F16 are in india being show cased to IAF in attempt to win...
Pakistanis are cringing at the thought of one of these fighters being ordered.
SU30MKI X 280 was a nitemare.
But Rafale F18 OR Typhoon x 126
Phew wat lethel firepower
S300 & S400 are very expensive SAM systems. And They are Russian
You have American Paitriot Systems ans some say CHINA has FT2000
But no order has been made. at this stage i believe.
THE JF17 that is going thru IOC at this moment in time cannot handle the matured SU30MKI which has...
Batman.
F22 SU30 F15 RAFALE AND TYPHOON are twin engined for the reasons mentioned above.
F16 is good platform thanks to APG radar and Amraams.
But that means nothing to the poor JF17 pilot who has to fly against 400 su30mki and mmrca
batman.
No body is dreaming Over 100 mki & Phalcon Awacs here Tonite.
You or I indeed can,t change the Geopolitics of a India USA nexus.
F18 SH are coming with AESA TOT and more goodies like C17 Galaxy P8 posedions. JUST LIKE USA ripped nuke treaty for India benefits.
This...
F18 Super hornets and in deed F15 EAGLES are twin engined Fighters.
They carry bigger radars bigger Arms payload and over longer distances.
They also carry more jammers and can survive a direct hit in some cases having 2 engines.
The F16 like the JF17 is single engine and smaller...
JF17 will be a very smart and cost effective way to replace in particular the very old mirage 3/5 airframes. These are over 40 years old.
The dilemma for PAF by 2015 IAF will be fielding 280 su30mki (IAF abt to order 50 more mki) and prehaps another 126 F18SH/RAFALE/TYPHOON class fighters...
Its easy to bl;ame every body else for Pakistans Failures.
The fact is simple since independence in 1947 Pakistan has been struggling for a true sense of direction.
Its wants to make it own trade mark in THE WORLD but has got drawn into a bitter rivalry with its giant neighbour...
Agonostic Muslim Quotes
"At the moment India and Pakistan are pretty equivalent on most socio-economic indicators"
May be but their is a whole chasm of difference in real Industrial power ie
GDP $1.2 TRILLION for India Versis $170 billion Pakistan.
Forex India $270...
Brazil, France in advanced talks on fighter jet deal: Lula
Sun Sep 6, 2:44 PM
PARIS (AFP) - Talks between Brazil and France on a major deal to buy Rafale combat jets are at a "very advanced" stage and headed toward agreement, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Sunday.Made by...
The title is misleading and a fluffy way suggesting that Pakistan should accept the fact that in this South Asian Neighbourhood India is perceived to be a regional power of considerable industrial & military might.
The Western World has accepted that this is China,s and India,s Century...