To be Fair PAF will have a great BVR weapon with 18 f16/52 + 44 MLU to 44 of their F16.
66 BVR AMRAAM equipped F16 will double the fire power of PAF overnite. Add chinease Awacs and theres your first line of defense..
Your second line is 170 WVR F7PG with your sam systems which will provide the battle over your home land.
Thats useful deterrance but stil no way can PAF take air war to indian Skies. You don,t have the punch/ firepower in the PAF to be a offensive air force....
IAF is being built to be a offensive force multipler both in South Asia skies and the indian Ocean.
That means long range MRCA. refuling planes and AWACS.... ON IL76 LONG RANGE russian carriers.
People keep saying PAF training yet your pilots do not have any exposure to BVR combat,, refuelling over long range missions,, or training with western air forces. OR NOT TO SAME LEVEL HAS THEIR IAF counterparts
PAF doctrine until recently has been set in a 1970-80s time warp. ie WVR combat &homeland defence.
Only now is PAF awakening to BVR. AWACS and refellers playing catch up to IAF who have a much bigger $$$ budget to play with..
PAF was beter equipped and trained in my opinion in 65 & 71. prehaps even until the late 80s. But has your rel;ationship with usa cooled so did your technology and with it the modern training.
INDIA has had the edge in tech,, doctrine,, exposure to overseas training for at least 10 years...
YOU CAN SEE THIS IN THE EQUIPMENT that IAF has inducted or on order as we speak.
IAF training amd methods are not inferior in any way shape or form
To some extent I agree with you but not fully
Had we received F-16Cs or MLU carried out earlier, things had been quite well in favour of PAF
BUT as it didnt happen so no doubt that IAF has an edge when it comes to BVR technology
..While PAF pilots extensively train in simulated anti-BVR scenarios, there is no alternate to the real thing
..Its a shortcoming that every one with heavy shoulders is well aware of and they are trying their best to catch up with all that was lost in preceding years
.Have a look at the future PAF projects and it will answer some of your questions
You also mentioned something about overseas training, well just to put record straight, PAF had been conducting exercises with USAF/USN since 70s up untill few years back
Heard about exercises Inspired Alerts... heres a proof!!!
USAF also visited Pakistan for another exercise in 2006 at Jacobabad..Other than USA, we had multiple exercises in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and UAE at their home turf in last few years
Before 65 war, IAF clearly had a numerical superiority and nobody could predict that how PAF will take such a huge force or how it will be able to sustain the air operations in face of being so outnumbered
Whatever happened, whole world witnessed
.While 71 was a political disaster, however PAF again managed to put a good show as per her doctrine
If the two countries go to war today, PAF will be on
mainly defensive with limited offensive
.However, in next one to two years, as MLU has already started and with planned package on JF-17, IAF will lose the advantage that she has at the moment
.When two BVR fighters will meet, it will again be down to better training and tactics
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