Chengdu J-10 Multirole Fighter Air Craft News & Discussions

LKJ86 · Nov 9, 2019

Umar Nazir said:
F35 need 3 days for 2nd flight where as F16 can fly 3 times in one day. So F16 is not going any where

F-35 just needs some time to be mature.
And the cost of F-35 is close to the latest version of F-16, but F-16 is meaningless to F-35.

Beast · Nov 9, 2019

Umar Nazir said:
More power full engine, speed and range and soon F16 will have AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM).

No point. PAF will not have the such potent missile from US. Given both F-16 and Rafale. I will take Rafale to have a higher survival chances against High G BVRAAM.

Umar Nazir · Nov 9, 2019

LKJ86 said:
F-35 just needs some time to be mature.
And the cost of F-35 is close to the latest version of F-16, but F-16 is meaningless to F-35.

maintenance and flying cost for F16 is too much low as compare to F35. Stealth technology is the only advantage which F35 have, but in coming years, Powerful radars will be invented which can track F35 as well.

Beast said:
No point. PAF will not have the such potent missile from US. Given both F-16 and Rafale. I will take Rafale to have a higher survival chances against High G BVRAAM.

yup as far as PAF concern, USA will not sell even block 70 to Pakistan.

LKJ86 · Nov 9, 2019

Umar Nazir said:
maintenance and flying cost for F16 is too much low as compare to F35.

It is quite normal to every new fighter.

Umar Nazir said:
Stealth technology is the only advantage which F35 have, but in coming years, Powerful radars will be invented which can track F35 as well

But it would be a worse news to non-stealth fighters.

Besides, 5th-generation fighters are not just stealth fighters.

LKJ86 · Nov 9, 2019

Haris Ali2140 said:
This time cold war will be different as China has the leesons of the soviet.

USA wants to maintain a technological edge to China, and China doesn't want to be USA's puppy, like Japan.
So, there are no other choices.

Fsjal · Nov 9, 2019

Umar Nazir said:
maintenance and flying cost for F16 is too much low as compare to F35. Stealth technology is the only advantage which F35 have, but in coming years, Powerful radars will be invented which can track F35 as well.

Stealth tech isn't the only advantage stealth fighters like F-35 and J-20 have. Stealth fighters also feature advanced sensor fusion capability and powerful electronic warfare, not to mention very high maneuverability.

Upgraded 4.5 gen. fighter jets such as the J-10C, as well as F-16V, J-16 and F-15 Advanced Eagle, will stick around for a couple decades, however realistically they wouldn't remain up to 2070. In fact, an aircraft like J-10C would most likely be out service, or at least out of frontline duty, by somewhere around the 2040s-2050s.

Han Patriot · Nov 10, 2019

LKJ86 said:
USA wants to maintain a technological edge to China, and China doesn't want to be USA's puppy, like Japan.
So, there are no other choices.

Exactly, the last 2 real sovereignty and independent nation on earth is Russia and China. The rest ate either too weak or American puppies.