I’m curious what specific area of military has Pakistan helped Iran with?
Other than Khan whoring his nuclear technology to any state that would buy it (personal financial gain motives), Pakistan as a government has not assisted Iran military projects.
And I wouldn’t brag that you bought some F-16’s which any country with friendly relations with US can do. That’s not accomplishment simply a transaction. With that logic one can most of the PG Arab countries have better air forces than Pakistan in terms of newer block aircraft.
JF-17 was a tech transfer from China, which China would never do that with Iran neither would Russia. Iran attempted in the past, but got backstabbed.
One thing you need to realize is world powers don’t help other hegemonic powers especially if they compete in the same spheres of influence. So as much as China and Russia may be anti US, they still don’t want to help Iran get stronger because they will indirectly compete against each other.
Pakistan on the other hand has zero geopolitical power projection beyond its borders (unless you count Afghanistan which is a mess) and is content with battling India to the end of time. So gladly China will support this as India is its rival as well and it doesn’t have to worry about Pakistan competing against it.
Russia/China/Iran will never be “allies”. Much like sharks at the end of the day they want to feed themselves not each other.
a quality post in a useless insecure "hahaha Pakistan has better air force (and nukkeeez) then Iran" troll thread.
There is the full stickied air force thread if one needs info, and Irans lack of a modern air force is well documented and acknowledged.
though its of kind of laughable when people say crap like "Iran wouldn't last 2days - 2 months against US "!
while Iran has survived 40 years of everything the US has had to throw at it.
- coup attempt
-8 years of supporting Irans invasion, arming the invading force, supporting the invading force, , and allowing the use of WMDs against Iran by the invading force. in addition to satellite info, and UN and media cover.
-followed by increasing levels of economic warfare that's almost a declation of war in itself.
-massive investment into "soft" regime change attacks against IRan.
just about anything you can imagine. there are few countries on earth that would last a month being cut off just from swift. imagine in addition to that, getting all your transactions blocked, all your productive cash cow industries targeted and shut down.
in euro countries, Australia, Canada, any rich nation like japan, s. korea et.cetc. and especially Pakistan, and just about 95%+ of earth would collapse in days to weeks with those type of sanctions. so it laughable when they say "Iran cant last 2 days".