We don't have the money to be replacing Spada 2000 (which isn't even that old) with CAMM-ER. Even the older Crotales are being upgraded instead of being phased out.
Its not replacing SPADA, its replacing the missile. The PAF already has a project underway for this and may i add its a very questionable one too. Integrating a Chinese missile into the SPADA's sensors.
Not the case. On other side IAF is relifing old expired Soviet era AAMs and upgrading its SA3s despite having such a large budget and here you want to replace crotales.
CAMM-ER was selected by Spain in 2016, so it was around when PA was shopping
Let me guess DK-10 or something similar?
I think DGDP was originally set up to promote joint-services procurement, offsets, etc, but it wasn't given enough teeth to carry out its work. Even if we accept the fact that our generals make the final decision, they could've still established a joint-services commission to bring the best options forward.
Army does not think strategically, and still believes it can do things better on its own without input from A/F and Navy, even though technologically AF is far more learned..
The irony is that in the 1960s and 1970s, the Army was willing to think big, relatively speaking. E.g., the tri-services basically procured the Allouette III as a joint-order because they all needed the same type of helicopter for SAR. Similarly, the PAF sought the A-7 to build out its CAS capability to better support Army maneuvers. The Army and PAF even got together in the 1980s to study the chance to bring UH-1 Huey production to Pakistan.
Let's hope this isn't the case during actual war planning, if they can't cooperate now, then the likelihood of them smoothly integrating their war-time operations is low too...
You are missing one thing. The nuclear program. The PAF was the lead service for it until the early 2000's and pushed hard for it, while the Army (and the Navy) were fairly skeptical about the whole thing. The PAF spent a lot of effort to integrate nuclear warfighting and draft national warplans for the same. This was all done without the input of the other services. Until 1971 the PAF saw itself essentially as an extension of the Army, with the focus on Army support missions and providing AD.. After the start of the nuclear era, the PAF saw its role as a war winner on its own, leading the other services to accuse it of having delusions of grandnuer.
A lot of misinformation here. PAF never sought the A7. It was offered but not accepted. There was no talk of UH-1 production in Pakistan. Allouette IIIs were assembled at the Army aviation workshop and there was some talk of Hughes 500 in the 70s. None of the things you talk about were derailed by Presslers as they never existed. Just non-facts put together a support an opinion.
