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People tend to overreact to big headline news. Is the Rafale a superb aircraft? Ofcourse. But is it going to significantly skew the relative balance further against the PAF? I doubt it. That isn't necessarily a good thing, since the current standing of PAF relative to IAF is nothing to feel safe about. Were the Indians to declare war today, we have little in the way of assets to prevent IAF superiority. Compared to a depleted f-16 force (due to ongoing MLUs) and jf-17s induction (in relation to training and tactics) still in its infancy, we stand no real chance against the current IAF force of Mirage 2000s, Su-30mkis, and Mig-29s.
Pakistan's goal maybe to fight any future wars on the defensive, but our history has shown otherwise, ambitious leaders have sacrificed many Pakistani lives in wars that we started. Even if we are to assume a defensive stance, we lack not only quantity, but also quality...similarly, in times of peace, we have a huge crisis in terms of all basic utilities...were a war to break out, how are we going to fuel these massive forces? Pakistan also has very little depth, east to west; in short, being on the defensive provides us with very little of the advantages that are usually built into such scenarios.
If the idea is to fight India, then the result today is the same as it was 10 years ago and will remain the same going forward: we have no chance of a positive result. Maybe the "headline" nature of this news may force the relevant people to realize this and back us out of our aggressive stance towards India gracefully.
Pakistan's goal maybe to fight any future wars on the defensive, but our history has shown otherwise, ambitious leaders have sacrificed many Pakistani lives in wars that we started. Even if we are to assume a defensive stance, we lack not only quantity, but also quality...similarly, in times of peace, we have a huge crisis in terms of all basic utilities...were a war to break out, how are we going to fuel these massive forces? Pakistan also has very little depth, east to west; in short, being on the defensive provides us with very little of the advantages that are usually built into such scenarios.
If the idea is to fight India, then the result today is the same as it was 10 years ago and will remain the same going forward: we have no chance of a positive result. Maybe the "headline" nature of this news may force the relevant people to realize this and back us out of our aggressive stance towards India gracefully.