Flashback- PAF evaluating Mirage 2000

[Readerdefence]

My friends on this forum always reluctant to accept that defeat or should I say retreat from Kargil
Has nothing to do with paf as airforce wasn't involved fully from the day one beside that
Musharaff has reservations to involve airforce to be blown out a full scale war
Basically it was a commando style infiltration and hold the position for long for some
Technical come out

 

[CriticalThought]

-16 CAPs could not have been flown all day long as spares support was limited under the prevailing US sanctions. Random CAPs were resorted to, with a noticeable drop in border violations only as long as the F-16s were on station. There were a few cases of F-16s and Mirage-2000s locking their adversaries with the on-board radars but caution usually prevailed and no close encounters took place. After one week of CAPs, the F-16 maintenance personnel indicated that war reserve spares were being eaten into and that the activity had to be ‘rationalised’, a euphemism for discontinuing it altogether. That an impending war occupied the Air Staff’s minds was evident in the decision by the DCAS (Ops) for F-16 CAPs to be discontinued, unless IAF activity became unbearably provocative or threatening.

Those not aware of the gravity of the F-16 operability problem under sanctions have complained of the PAF’s lack of cooperation. Suffice it to say that if the PAF had been included in the initial planning, this anomaly (along with many others) would have emerged as a mitigating factor against the Kargil adventure. It is another matter that the Army high command did not envisage operations ever coming to such a pass. Now, it was almost as if the PAF was to blame for the Kargil venture spiralling out of control.

You are cherry picking those paragraphs, and even then, you are confirming what I have stated earlier. It was a disaster of planning. If your COAS thinks the airforce will never need to be involved, and then you find your soldiers wondering why enemy aircraft are flying overhead, the COAS should be fired. How does this reflect badly on PAF who was under sanctions at the time and had to do with whatever budget it could scrape by?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/09/pakistans-air-force-learned-about-the-bin-laden-raid-on-tv/

I rely more on serving/retired PAF personnel than news stories.

The vacuum that has been created by American embargo in 1965 in Pakistan –was immediately filled by French supply. In military cooperation, Navy and Air Force are the most beneficiaries of the French supplies. Mirages, submarines, mines hunters and helicopters are the significant symbols of cooperation. France proved to be an outlet for Pakistan to achieve and strengthen those areas of its security, which will ignore due to American global political priorities. American always wished to create a mercenary army within South Asia, which they could use for the regional objectives. Until 9/11, Pakistan resisted this use.9 Under the pretext of WOT, they succeeded to get their objective – the army which they failed to use against communism directly will become their tool – against its own people.

http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/studies/PDF-FILES/Artical-3_v14_no2_13.pdf

This is 2017 not 1965. As I said earlier, once America puts you under sanctions, all Western nations comply. Iran is a recent example. North Korea is an ongoing example.

 

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If your COAS thinks the airforce will never need to be involved, and then you find your soldiers wondering why enemy aircraft are flying overhead, the COAS should be fired. How does this reflect badly on PAF who was under sanctions at the time and had to do with whatever budget it could scrape by?

Because we choose F16 and ditch Mirage 2000

I rely more on serving/retired PAF personnel than news stories.

Rather than relying facts are PAF was as sleep as any one else ,stop believing conspiracy theories

This is 2017 not 1965. As I said earlier, once America puts you under sanctions, all Western nations comply. Iran is a recent example. North Korea is an ongoing example.

Again conviction rather than facts ,you can visit the complete article shared

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/france-and-pakistan-story-of-an-unwritten-alliance.491446/