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in 2004-05 PAF came to know about indian MRCA when it was unoffcially announced.
at that time paf decided to see what to do to counter it. so we heard rumours of gripen (cabinent approved it), rafale and even typhoon.
in ned it was decided that 50-60 odd F-16s will do the trick as they are still one of the most advance jets.
however after the earth quack PAF got it sights on j-10 and decided that with improvements in avionics J-10b can potentially be an excellent aircraft.
second what PAF decided in 2007 time that instead of buying European jets, it would be far better to buy avionic packages, which would mean western weapons and avionics with pakistani airframe..
the european avionic would have meant that essentail thunder would be at par to any westeern jets..however this was later dropped due to two reasons
1. money issue but more importantly successful Indian lobby to stop the french
2. the surprising improvement in Chinese avionics, as they had shown exponential growth (not surprsing as they are now working on fifth gen aircraft)
so PAF has already planned long bnefore for this MRCA. it has done so very good.
we will have thunder as our work horse and f-16s/j-10s as strike aircrfts
at that time paf decided to see what to do to counter it. so we heard rumours of gripen (cabinent approved it), rafale and even typhoon.
in ned it was decided that 50-60 odd F-16s will do the trick as they are still one of the most advance jets.
however after the earth quack PAF got it sights on j-10 and decided that with improvements in avionics J-10b can potentially be an excellent aircraft.
second what PAF decided in 2007 time that instead of buying European jets, it would be far better to buy avionic packages, which would mean western weapons and avionics with pakistani airframe..
the european avionic would have meant that essentail thunder would be at par to any westeern jets..however this was later dropped due to two reasons
1. money issue but more importantly successful Indian lobby to stop the french
2. the surprising improvement in Chinese avionics, as they had shown exponential growth (not surprsing as they are now working on fifth gen aircraft)
so PAF has already planned long bnefore for this MRCA. it has done so very good.
we will have thunder as our work horse and f-16s/j-10s as strike aircrfts