Selling F-16 Jets To Pakistan Won’t Help Combat Terrorism: Manohar Parrikar

[Paksanity]

The design stage is practically complete. Most of the avionics is also ready in some form or other between India and Israel. The Israelis alone will buy in triple digits.

Israel wants to stop the purchase of more F-35As. Instead of 3 or 4 squadrons of F-35s, they want to split the purchase between 1.5 F-35A squadrons and 2 F-15SE squadrons. And their main 5th gen fighter will be this new aircraft. They plan on buying 100+.

Instead of the planned 75 jets, they have decided to buy only 33 with 17 more as options. They were supposed to order 50 after the first order of 19.

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Come on, you are smart enough to put them all together. Parrikar says India will 'develop' the most advanced fighter in India, an obvious reference to a new fighter jet. The Israelis want to stop buying more F-35s and buy F-15s instead. They need to replace 300+ F-16s. Isn't it obvious what the Israelis are planning?

This new aircraft will be about the same size and weight as the JF-17, but it will have a 120KN engine and the unrefueled range on internal fuel will match the Su-30MKI. It will have the latest Indian and Israeli avionics. And a massive air to air loadout, much more than on the F-35.

@gambit

Take that you crappy yank!

At last US monopoly on airspace technology has ended. A JF-17 size 5th Gen is rolling out from India with loiter / range of Su-30 and hell lot more weapon carriage than F-35. Please accept my advance condolences for mass suicides about to be committed at Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Area-51. Rest will be taken care of North Korean style I'm sure. Now bow before your new King, o pathetic earthlings!

@Desertfalcon They did warn you guys not to p!ss them off. Now you see what they are bringing out in anger! Lol

 

[waz]

Americans will not care about any body so does India. One does it openly bcos it can and other bcos it cannot. This is a risky game, India neither wants to become another pakistan nor wants china to win.

India wants US to put lid on pakistan if it wants to take on china. But US is in no mood to relent, they want to have the cake and eat it too. As usual India is playing waiting game, waiting for others to make mistakes. In short it is a waiting game , everybody is waiting for the other to become bakra.

Time will tell who will win and who got paid back in dollar or yuan.

Agreed.

 

[ziaulislam]

well you are right MP wants pakistan to waste its money (whatever they have ) on F16 and is just coaxing pakistan to go for more ... clever chap

but point is can Pakistan even afford to "buy" F16 let alone F35s

its not about affordability , its about priorities
so Pakistan could afford multibillion-dollar deal in 1980s and early 90s but cannot right now???

defence is no longer a top priority with changing dynamics and nuclear deterrence..

war is unlilkey event in the future..

to put it simple, we are building just metros worth 2 billion dollars this year...
we have
budget of over 40 billion dollars..
Imf assistance is done and over and foreign reserves are well beyond any worrying level....

so yes we can easily pay 1-2 billion dollars 18 f-16s but it isnt a priority

similarly india can easily pay 12-14 billion dollars for128 rafale but it isnt a priority so they can are not even ready to pay for 36 rafales now