You know what, Oscar, i fail to understand this money logic of yours.
Remember in the old days, the 80s when Pakistan went to USA shopping for 111 f-16s off the shelf and paying them at list price?
Now Pakistan's economy was no where near today's level. But we are crippled for funds. My question is, that each year since 1980s, PAF budget has increased, not decreased. And every successive year, it increased upon the previous increases budget. (compounding increase) so why are we short of money today? We didn't buy any hi-tech or expensive aircraft from 1990-2006. That is a good 16 years. All we bought was the cheap F-7s and used Mirages. That doesn't cost a lot of money.
So my question is, since our economy is the largest it has ever been in history, we still don't have money to increase our combat jets numbers even with Chinese aircraft (as the word goes, it's cheaper) let alone western tech.
We haven't even fought a war.
So please tell me....where has the money gone?
Because someone really needs to do auditing of PAF/Military's accounts....as they are eating the largest chunk of our budget.