Not only that, these points have been discussed to death.
Simple fact is JF17 has reached 100 mark with Blk3 in final stages of design finalization before production commences and has good potential for exports, and as for LCA we all know whats going in with it.
Sir, i already said that pic is from some training grounds of punjab area, field exercises. And this is how they wear these nvgs, mostly worn when out on an op or for security cum patroling purposes. Mp5 clearly suggests its not an op area, the guy either doing photo session or is on camp...
Professionals make mistake also. At the height of ops in swa, a bell 412 was returning from miranshah and after stopping at bannu it took off for pesh, bear bannu there is a dam with reservoir, the pilots thought to have fun with a touch and go at the water in the reservoir and result was a...
There is this at j10 production factory:
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/j10/j10_07.jpg
And others have also. Below is F35
http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/6/2/1509267.jpg?v=v40
Agreed, that is why we need multiple systems. In city area we can use Mohafiz kind of vehicles which are local made and maintenance wise would be easy. Same mohafiz vehicle can be used in rural areas where IEDs chances are slim but ambushes with ak47 are high plus Otokar Cobra 1 kind of system...
Waisay sir ji, to great extent i agree with zarvan as if not in whole ops area atleast the most critical areas need such systems or something which can stop 7.62 rounds. A few days back saw video of baloch militants where they ambushed a convoy of FC guys and with just ak47 fire they killed 4 FC...