Basel
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@hellfire while your points are valid they are moot. The PAF will certainly use cruise missiles in any conflict (conventional unless faced with mortal threat). It is why they were developed. Their use may or may not trigger a nuclear response from India (which has a no first use policy). If India assumes that all missiles (and i mean non-ballistic in this case) will have nuke tips and it miscalculates and crosses the nuclear threshold first then it is going to cause the nuclear war, not pakistan and it will deal with the International fallout. Yes millions will die on all sides and could start a nuclear holocaust. That ambiguity is the entire point of Pakistans non-declarence of no first use. It must fit into India's calculus if they will mistakenly be the ones that cross the threshold. This is precisely why even a low scaled conflict and the risk of IAF strikes against Pakistan is so dangerous and as a result unlikely. The risk of mistake and nuclear conflagration is too high for both sides. It is all that has prevented war in the last 18 years. It is also the reason PAFs development of conventoonal strike is so important. Believe it or not, if India understands Pakistan is statisfied with a conventional deterent, it lowers the risk of nuclear war, but for that to work PAF must have a competent conventional strike deterent and Flankers (and JH-7B IF FLANKERS ARE UNAVAILABLE) alomg with small numbers of H-6K are so valuable.
As for India's ability to monitor Pakistan this we already know, but with PAFs larger number of AWACS and their ability to see deep into indian territory, Pakistan will also know about a strike long before it reaches Pakistan. Additionally IAF does not have the means to take out the H-6K from inside india if it sits deep in Pakistan. But H-6K does have the ability with Babur to hit radar and FOBs of IAF from deep inside Pakistan. Will it cripple IAF... No but woll limit its ability to perform actions in Pakistani airspace to a great degree if their strike packages need to return to airbases much further off.
I don't know why people on PDF continue bringing H-6K & JH-7 family into discussion when PN & PAF have rejected them, India can hit those birds with ease and due to there limitations PN & PAF are not interested.
PAF is currently struggling to fill the numbers of 4th gen fighter jets to replace extremely aging fighter fleet. PAF & PN will go for J-11 or similar jet (if available/possible) due to multi role capabilities, if not possible then standoff munitions & more advance submarines are their way to go for now.
In any future conflict with India PAF will work with PA and both will use there assets for combined deep strikes against priority targets using long range weapons (now even PN is slowly coming in this picture).
I thought PAF rejected Jh-7b based on it's old design, engine and payload.
If Chinese redesign it to be 4 or 4.5 generation fighter/bomber than there is a possibility that PAF might consider it.
may be this kind of design.........
You are right about rejection, I had discussed it with PN people and they said that China it self is working for future replacement of JH-7 series with new aircraft and there are many projects under progress in China which are not public and those are on radar of Pakistan.