F-35 is a failure in its intended role. A single platform was called to do too much tasks which it cannot match lost to a F-16 in dogfight doesn't have the energy to maneuver, wing are small for its weight, loses it stealth when loaded for combat whats the point of such an expensive jet. Instead...
mirage has the all weather capablity even when it didn't had the ROSE upgrade. It was designed as an all weather high altitude interceptor it lacks the fly by wire controls and agilty as compared to jf-17 and f-16 but who needs to be agile when you are a bomb truck instead of fighter and have...
People keep on saying that 1 wss written off but did anyone has a proof to back up his statement secondly there wss no smoke seen after terrorist attack that an aircraft is on fire. Only small puffs here and there.
F-100-PW-220E produces thrust of max 23,770. F-16A/B Block 15s have a lighter airframe and 220E gives it enough power to have thrust to weight ratio 1.0. 229EEP are of different breed they produce well over 29k lbs thrust for F-16C/D as they have much heavier airframe.
The point is India never celebrated 6th Sept in 49 year why now only it is to show their intentions that they want war and they will get it at their own soil inshallah.
Both Pakistan and India failed in their main objective but Pakistan on the other hand achieved it secondary objective to defend it self while India performed it miserably IAF got mutilated in the air and on the ground by a much less but much better trained force of highly skilled and...
All PAF F-16s are wquipped with APG-68V9 radars which are mechanically scanned arrays no AESA for Paf F-16s as of yet but Paf should consider the radar upgrade in the coming 5 years to SABR AESA just as Singapore and Taiwan has done.