You have limited resources yes, but you are fielding a very strong military and a lot of behind the scenes R&D...
if people think this whole infrastructure survives on your stated Defence Budget then that's not correct...
Defence and Civil tech are two different things and Pakistan has been expanding her Defence R&D infrastructure for decades...
China has been perfecting the tech to match certain parameters and fit on certain platforms...
That's not struggling, that's getting closer to perfecting a tech which...
With Chinese and Russian interests so heavily invested in Pakistan. It will be impossible for these countries to not take active anti destabilization measures in and around Pakistan.
If Pakistan was fighting RAW, Mossad, and CIA all alone in the past....those times are long over ...
If you really think the official defence budget stated by your Govt is the real military budget Pakistan survives on, then you are seriously mis informed ...
The real Pakistani budget is probably 6 - 7x more than the stated budget and more than half of that goes into behind the scenes R&D and...
Finally what the Soviets couldn't achieve by an armed interference in Afghanistan, has been achieved by better strategic play by Putin.
This will affect the whole ex Soviet block and not just Russia.
I hope Ukraine can benefit from this some how...
There has been a lot of tech know how sharing going on behind the curtains for Ukrainian Engines and there is a group of observers for testing the performance in various Pakistani terrains as well.
However if Pakistan keeps getting closer to Russia, that might be a problem with the new UA regime.
even I can see from the first picture itself without having to translate Mandarin that its an AESA radar...
I don't know why some people want to question it specially those who go with titles like consultant...
I apologize for mixing dari speakers with Hazaras only
49% dari speakers or Farsi :)
I was a regular visitor for a long time....just recently felt the need to comment in a indian hate thread which was beyond logic and hence became an active participant
And yes I'm a student of defense related...
I'm not Pakistani but your country does need change from the current corrupt system
If you protect them then I can only feel hypocrisy coming out of you and I can only feel sorry for people like you regardless of whichever nation they live in...
49% of Afghanis are Hazara and they speak Farsi
Same Hazara who were the Northern Alliance and pro india...andf currently almost the entire establishment in Afghanistan is based around Hazaras because Pashtun tend to be pro Taliban usually.
That's your fire door neighbor...you should know more ...
US can pay all they want but the security R&D infrastructure has always remained out of reach for US or even the Pakistani elite subject to US influence.
And the major threats for Pakistan will emerge from Europe and Americas if not already. The more they cozy up to China and Russia the more...