Gulf air forces display new-found confidence

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The few times the RSAF DID face enemy jets it has won every time, while that is too low to make an estimate but it still counts as a 100% success rate, one against Iranian airforce at the highet of its power the other being against Iraq.

Those 2 incidents don't really show the success rate.

The Iranian aircraft was an old F-4 against an F-15, if it was an F-14 it would be a true achievement. Though that would have put the F-14 in a better position at the longer range with it's AIM-54.

In Iraq's incident it was a Mirage F1 with no radar sight of the airspace, they were flying blind with no ground radar communications and with the American E-3 using electronic warfare making it no different than firing a missile on a jet airliner. The Mirages didn't change course either, they were flying stationary pointing out the radars blindness most probably by the American E-3.

hear it from a general, the US destroying the air force infrastructure putting the AF in a blind position.

I don't think ground bombardment is anywhere near how difficult air-air warfare is, the targets are people with no air defences as well. Egypt recently used F-16's to bomb IS targets in Libya as well but as they have had many wars similar articles aren't being written about them. The entire article is pointing out that ( the gulf air forces ) show they know how to use their aircraft, and that's no insult, that's how the media writes it's articles.

 

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it is.. in shaa allah many new things are coming up. there is a lot of changes happening in MOD and the Military Industries Corporation. they brought the CEO of SABIC and a lot of top executives from ARAMCO and saudi TOP BANKS. each person they brought was making millions in his past job and they were among the best. so in shaa allah that only means one thing. things will change completely. specially the way of managing MOD, manufacturing weapons, JV and R&D.

write insha ALLAH in this way. masha ALLAH.

There should be a full fledged (simulated) war between PAF and united GCC airforce with PAF and GCC deploying its premiere assets.

It will give us a pretty good idea where GCC stands (and where PAF stands)...

May be separate.

@al-Hasani its really good for PAF to work with Sri Lanka, BD, Burma and other East Asian countries and left GCC which is not now less Pakistan centric. If they wanted to win a war they should fight on their own.

Moreover, Pak should look towards Japan-Korea-Taiwan and also US-Canada and South America to shift people going to GCC to these countries where they can have much better life than GCC.

 

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GCC wants to invest in Balochistan-Sindh-FATA and KPK more and more. I think Pakistan should allow them to invest in the mineral resources along with infrastructure like Seaports, Airports, Railways and Highways along with City/Urban development.