Mani2020
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Let me put it another way..stealth fighter is going to be a game changer. It will make any 4th gen airforce obsolete if inducted early enough. Pakistan shud focus on j 31 as dedicated air superiority fighter and forget about inducting another 4th gen aircraft if this can be percured in a reasonable time..
I dont know bilal khan what are u talking about and your whole post is very detached from reality...
That is an exaggeration of the fact. Had it been the case USA would have replaced all its 4 or 4. 5 generation aircrafts with f22. There are various things that need to be considered. first is the budget which in case of paf becomes more significant. Second is the technology being used, an aircraft tagged as 5th generation on paper doesn't make it so, it has to prove its worth... similarly as some 4th generation aircrafts were better than their counterparts while other were duds same is the case with 5th generation... third is the number inducted... you can't expect paf with 50 f31 making Indian 300 su30 and 100 odd mirages and mig 29s obsolete. Fourth is the fact that being 5th generation aircraft doesn't make it something invisible which can go and beat the shit out of enemy any day any time. Fifth is the fact that either you are offender or defender. Besides with awacs, net centric environment and good SAMs no airforce with some 5th generation aircrafts can make other airfore with good 4 or 4. 5 generation aircrafts obsolete.
You always have to maintain a high- lo combo especially when you are a dead economy like ours... even keeping that sometimes is a hectic task... we by no means have so much funds that we can go all out with a 5th generation aircraft to make our adversary look like a dodo... everything we do is mostly a reaction to what our adversary do... we can't afford to be the initiaters because we know the other party has full pockets and they can throw back it at us with double magnitude and impact