Philip the Arab
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IMO best thing for PAF is to try to upgrade all aircraft to Block 70/72 or UAE Block 60 variant which I think could be done considering UAE paid for 3 billion R&D and development. 76 F-16Vs or F-16 Block 60s would significantly increase Pakistan's air forces ability combined with JF-17 Block III. Typhoon will be a huge economic burden to Pakistan because you have to add supply lines and servicing techniques.
In a perfect world Pakistan would increasing ties with GCC nations as much as it can and trying to form an alliance with them that mandates attacking any aggressor that attacks any of the nations in the group. If Pakistan could secure this they would have to defend GCC against Iran but have GCC to fall back on if conflict with India arises.
Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain alone have pretty big air forces for their sizes and would help Pakistan's defense strategy a lot even without KSA/UAE.
Kuwait has 56 new 4+ gen fighters coming in as well as 28 older F/A-18s (EFT and F/A-18 Super Hornets)
Qatar has 86 new 4+ gen fighters coming in (EFT, Rafale, F-15QA)
Bahrain has 39 new upgraded and new built 4+ gen aircraft (F-16V)
In a perfect world Pakistan would increasing ties with GCC nations as much as it can and trying to form an alliance with them that mandates attacking any aggressor that attacks any of the nations in the group. If Pakistan could secure this they would have to defend GCC against Iran but have GCC to fall back on if conflict with India arises.
Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain alone have pretty big air forces for their sizes and would help Pakistan's defense strategy a lot even without KSA/UAE.
Kuwait has 56 new 4+ gen fighters coming in as well as 28 older F/A-18s (EFT and F/A-18 Super Hornets)
Qatar has 86 new 4+ gen fighters coming in (EFT, Rafale, F-15QA)
Bahrain has 39 new upgraded and new built 4+ gen aircraft (F-16V)