BRO Taimi,
Your counter claims regard the Media reports on AVM Rao's negation on ordering FC-20 were read thus rational of forming jokes in your mind was understood. But that portion aside, could you please tell why wait for F-Solas for 4 YRS without DFRM and AESA were prefferd than taking deliveries of off the shelf J-10As right away? While MKIs numbers were rising monthly and PAK-FA as well as MRCAs were taking shapes at IND, what rational could be behind such delaying brain-fart? And while Indians tested missiles reguraly, why did you guys need to boast the ability of yester year? I can go on with many more whys but the above citation along with giving IND central Asian link, killing its enemies in PAK soil seem part of the joke to start a day for you, brother?
F-16s are a battle tested, very much liked, with maintenance infrastructure & experience available platform to PAF. While J-10A lacks these things so far, and the major issue in J-10As are the Russian Engine, which would have been difficult to acquire as you know yourself how hard was for us to get it, with Indian opposition to it. RD-93 isn't that much of a super class engine, so the Russians even with Indian opposition gave it, but if it had come to the AL-31 series engine, the Russians won't have given it as J-10 would have been a serious adversary. So the major reason was engine and the early stage of the Chinese avionics.
Pak-Fa & MRCA or MMRCA are all still in the pipeline, and the FC-20s & JF-17s and hopefully a future Chinese Stealth are all the platforms that would be inducted to counter these Indian aircraft.
If you look at history, India always has enjoyed a superiority in quality and quantity both. They are bigger nation and we can't compete at 1:1.
And as for Missile tests and other stuff, well if you hadn't noticed for last 2 years we have been going under severe internal conflict crises, and in this chaos, doing such tests makes no sense as people & soldiers are getting martyred on daily basis, so such chest thumping is of no use.
India is our main adversary, and we have all the missiles and other stuff to counter it. If we have a 2500KM missile, no need for now to go to a 3000KM missile as no enemy is there at 3000KM mark. We need to cover India, which we have, now we need to get other capabilities to increase our conventional strength and defeat the taliban menace.
So Bangladesh may have submitted to Indian pressure, but we haven't. Let us first deal with this internal issue, then we will see about the other things mentioned by you.
And don't you worry, all the defence organizations are doing their work and making new things and perfecting older ones, no need to panic.
And IAF superiority would also be countered with. We are a cash strafed country thanks to our oligarchs, so we will take some time to counter the threat. Be assured, we aren't sleeping.
And yeah FC-20s deal is still on and you will see them inducted on time, God forbid if something else not happens.
Thanks for your concern.
