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As I had previously concluded, nothing special about VERA and it would be waste of resources to buy it. We should go for advanced ground-based radars from the US and other western countries to really bolster our air defences which are currently quite old and becoming obselete each passing day.

I think what was implied was, Jf-17 is comparable to earlier versions of the F-16 like Block 10, 15 and 20. Of course the Block 52 and 60 are in a different league than the Thunder.

Simply put: Achievement of selfish political goals and amassing of wealth in addition to tightening their grip on power. "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely"!

Thunder, on the contrary, Pakistan would most probably side with the US. Relations between Pakistan and Iran have never been great at all. Iran has always been seen as more closer to India. It has frictions with Pakistan because it has Shia majority while Pakistan has a Sunni one. As far as I...

On the contrary, Pakistan is more interested in enhancing ties with Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka at first. Nepal is way down the list. China, maybe.

Thunder, it is interesting to note that being Pakistanis we both think quite differently (or thats just the feeling I'm getting from your last post). You seem to owe your allegiance to your ethnicity (Punjabi) while I owe my allegiance to Pakistan; my ethnicity comes after that. No offence...

The main point here is that no matter how much India paints Pakistan for nuclear proliferation and accuses Pakistan for using covert activities to get to where it is today in nuclear tech; India, itself has pretty much gotten its nuclear tech that way. And these reports are surfacing now because...

Musharraf shouldn't overstay his welcomed visit to politics like other Generals did. He should take a note from history as the other generals' situation kept worsening the longer they stayed in power. Another good point in the article, Punjab should be divided in to three provincess of...

It wasn't meant to be a personal attack but just a piece of my mind after getting used to much better posts from melb4aust. Anyhow, I do think I should've PMed him that line. My bad at that.

They would be flown to Pakistan for operations if that was the case (meaning if they were urgently needed - but they can't as they are manned by American personnel). That means they cover all that is needed. Infrastructure wouldn't matter much as IF they would come, they'd only come...

Still doesn't negate anything I said earlier on. Everything is going on behind-the-scenes right now. Nothing 'official' has been said or proposed. Pakistan still has to decide which sub it wants but it is clear they prefer the French over Spanish and German. But if this doesn't...

Just to add my two cents to it. A sound For-Ex reserve goes a long way in securing investor confidence in a country. It is in a way also related to show that urgent debts owed by the government could be serviced using the For-Ex reserves in an emergency situation.

Well I dont have Indus Channel subscribed here in North America. Can someone please put it on a tape or cd and then upload it to this website? Will be greatly appreciated.

I don't even have to elaborate on this as the applied italics and bold point out clearly what is going on. Now you see the difference between Deccan Herald 'quoting' Janes Defence and giving 'detailed' info and other newspapers only outlining the story? The others claimed...

Srirangan, please refrain from further sarcastic one-liner remarks and try and 'actually' discuss something. Else your posts risk deletion. Cheers

I don't think I can use more 'simpler' english that I used my friend. NOTHING IS GOING TO BE TAKEN OUT. Would you rather believe THE NEWS or some of the credible military websites and publications out there? An MLU updrage would be done as is 'standard' which means they will...

First of all your post risks deletion if you fail to provide a link/source of that information. I've read this newspiece before on other forums and I would still say it is an unconfirmed report as this is the only story going around about it. Nothing has come up from any credible military...

Where did you get that from? PAF F-16s would receive the standard MLU which means they will be BVR and all other techs go with it. NOTHING will be removed from them; rather added on. If US wanted to provide F-16s without any advanced techs on board, they wouldn't have allowed Block 52s to be...

I will second A. Rahman's comments here. This thread risks closure and possible deletion if sources/links are not provided for such claims. As far as I know, Saudi AWACS aircraft are operated by AMERICAN personnel and there is NO way a 'secret' alliance can work out with AMERICAN...

PAF has 12 or so K-8s in service and I think there's an order for another 24 which was placed under Saadat, though I'm not too sure about this.