Irfan Baloch
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Wont that affect your military relations with United states, Pakistan does receive lion's share through Foreign Military Assistance, Excess Defense Articles and Coalition Support Fund. Would pakistani brass be willing to sacrifice AIM 9x, AIM sidewinders, Spares for Blk52's, Cobra upgrades, arty hardware, ground radars, naval equipment etc. for selling a few aircraft's to Iran.
very true
but you are touching on the very small aspect of the expected reaction. the real loss will be much bigger and deeper
Iran is totally off limits when it comes to military sales or anything civilian / commercial that has duel purpose. we tend to forget that our foreign exports mainly consist of Europe and America we just cant afford to loose that and whats more our Arab brothers would hate it even more.
I am a little bit aware of the law in this matter, not only that PAC will get black listed from direct interaction with western companies but even the intermediaries will also stop trading with us.
until the unthinkable happens and the Iranian regime changes its stance and comes out of the time bubble of the late 70s. Iran is a no go area for any country that is dependent on the west be it exports, technology, training, military etc. I think apart from China or Russia India is the only country that can show the finger to the rest of the world when it comes to looking after its own interests but then again, the opportunity cost is too high if it goes for Iran because America is much better choice for now.