India's economy growth rate and foreign reserves are vital to pak.
If they these two indicator grow at much faster pace than of ours; than f35C is coming to India
and all this will happen in 5 to 8 years.
but dont be sad, its all not that gloom & doom cause china is here too!!!!!
why replacement is not possible for PAF even if it gets decent budget:
very simple, training methodology and war experience with this aircraft is of paramount importnace for PAF
JFT B III ... considering PAF can get them in numbers which will fight along Block 52 and MLUs with PL 15 missiles. I dont see any problems with that. But S 400 is a problem that has to be dealt with by balancing act of purchasing chinese S 300 version or better version
Rafale is a good system and Pakistan are lucky they will never have one. It is nightmare to maintain in terms of cost and upgrades, we need 70 to 80 JFT III to counter their 2 squadrons in subcontinent only game changer will be F-35 but given its cost it is not coming in this part of world...
dunno much abt data links im speaking more abt practicality if we need american weapons for a system than that system is taking away our independence and eventually we will do what they ask of us, not a good position!
nothing better than J 10 for 4.5 gen class considering politics of the region.
J10 C is even better than f 16 70 because we will need US weapons along with that plane
in Pic 1 and 2, birds are practising tactics against radar signatures, i think.
PGs are clustering and JFTs are de clustering but hard to tell without knowing full details!
combat ready scenarios and tactics waiting for next indian move unless india purchases f35 it is not a great lead for india even with such a large budget!
with mirages PAF birds on the attack with SEAD mission and PLAAF with SAM and airbase defence
and when PLAAF attacks it is against JFTS and PGs
purely judging by the combination of planes
you guys are missing the point, usually tests are done to verify new system or new sub system although it is an old system it may part of new process or it may have certain new systems. hence the test!
PAF very accomplished organization in terms of war experience.
Even Israel dont go to war until they get qualitative edge but this animal knows how to fight i tell u even with lesser qualitative edge
thanks for our Chinese friends for broadening our skill set.
first shoot capability that is dependent upon tactics and fusion of hardware, software with pilot training
different from based purely on hardware.
How can India think of destroying PAF even country like USA dint even think of going all out against Iraq in deset storm. Even if all the rafaels...
we dont need to fight India unless forced to do so.
we need to improve our systems, sub systems and processes.
without them we cant fight any war with any body let alone india.