I would love to see few statistics or numbers to back up all this.
A lot of stuff you wrote here is simply subjective. Robust, agile, best of the best, heavily tested???? These are subjective terms if not proven through some comparative studies.
I tend to agree here and it also indicates that PAF has adopted the philosophy of PLAAF for induciton newer units. PLAAF adopted new jets with small tweaks here and there by manufacturers ... It reduces the overhead of upgrading the entire fleet later on which costs more both operationally and...
IMHO, the Best step can be an announcement of a joint Sino-Pak-Turkish gunship project. No need to do anything fancy. Simply use either pick a Chinese system and integrate some Turkish sub-systems (even 1 or 2 would make it a collaboration), or pick T-129 and see if some Chinese engine can work...
Last i checked US Air chief is looking for a clean sheet F-16 replacement less advanced than F-35. So be clammed, the world is not moving to autonomous fighters before the third or fourth quarter of this century. For now there is a winter season going on in global AI development.
Source: F-16...
Anyone still looking for F-16s must listen to the interview given by Lockheed Martin India's head. They are engaged with TATA and other Indian businesses at strategic level including ToT. For PAF, era of F-16 is over. Baiden administration is going to pressurize Pakistan on Afghanistan and there...
I think picture quality is the main culprit here. If we can zoom, flair dispenser is also not visible in PAF Clip which otherwise are there just below the low visible marking of PLAAF.
How about PAF getting small numbers of Chinese or Russian flankers and include them in CCS. Then we can pitch them against F-16s. As both planes will be flown by equally well trained pilots, such a contest in training regime will give us more netural outcome about performance of platforms...
This song decipher the tag line that is written in PAF's official logo. That Persian phrase has been described. Not everything is action oriented. There are work of art with more subtle and deeper meanings which cannot be shown through jets dropping bombs. Grow Up!