The world was used to talking on how the Indian Fulcrums and Flankers shall burn Pakistani F16s and other aircraft out of the sky: They(the MKI flankers) track 08 and fire at 04. We all had to hear so much nonsense about the Bison upgrade..etc etc etc. The online Indian brigade went on total nonsense hypothetical mythology driven scenarios... Then the day of reckoning came... India violated the IB and attacked Pakistani soil and crossed our air space. They brought the best they had (M2K upgraded as same standard as Rafale, and Israel's REK kits). While they had to abort short of release WP due to successful interception PAF, the world again went on and on how PAF had failed and ACM Mujahid should resign. Then, we gave you 27th of February, where our package approached and stayed in Indian Air Space without being challenged, in BROAD DAYLIGHT, and every aircraft they scrambled was given multiple tones and they chose to bugg out. However, some were shot down to demonstrate our current capability and network centricity. So what about the Rafale? Remember that while it's a capable aircraft, PAF will train harder and will ensure that specific developments are made to ensure that Rafale also go the same way as Bison and MKI Flanker, down the drain of Air Combat history in the Subcontinent scenario. As we coined the term 3 decades ago, You are All Rest Assured, PAF is awake.