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He's not an elected politician, he can't go around defining new policy without it being a policy of the government.

The pictures with infantry in combat shirts, they're from Jordan, and we sent our LCBs to Jordan >> they're LCB. That said, I think the combat shirt will make its way to the regular infantry, especially since many of our soldiers already prefer wearing t-shirts in combat. The camouflaged combat...

I thought it was a civil use order as well, but Alan Warnes said they were bought in lieu of S-70s for the PAF. The implication is that it is the PAF that is actually acquiring the AW-139s. A secondary point, we ought to consider standardization to some extent. The AW-139 seems like a decent...

In time, those mafias will deal with more hopers and dreamers.

It's an issue of scale. We took took the weight of the JF-17 because it was pivotal to maintaining our basic modernization needs, and there really was no other route (except perhaps buying off-the-shelf from China). With helicopters, it isn't as urgent; the Mi-17/171 parts probably come cheap...

PAA (and ideally PAF and PN) ought to try and reduce maintenance and logistical channels; stick to the AW139 (and its variants) and build up the fleet, and later, push for local MRO and some spare parts manufacturing.

Honestly I'd try taking the 1500hp Ukrainian 6TD-3, putting into the VT-4, then incorporating some Altay elements (e.g. armour technology, active protection, etc) to the VT-4. We'd have something similar to the K2 Black Panther.

Pakistan would try to get TAI to implement the actual upgrade. The kits and components are bought from the US (e.g. MLU), but the work to upgrade the F-16 is done in Turkey.

TAI is saying that the PAF is in talks to upgrade 74 F-16A/Bs: the existing PAF fleet plus another 14 from Jordan. The implementation cost is expected to be $100m, but the PAF itself has yet to define the upgrade. In other words, it is in talks with the U.S. At the mininum it'd be SLEP, but V...

Yep. Moreover, we can scale a tank engine for at least 2-3 decades (especially if we keep improving it).