Sir i have been reading that f16 is the best option because we have all the infrastructure and training support for the f16 so it will be lie plug and play.I want to ask you how long will it take to fully operate j10 c if we ever induct it ?
Hi,
Even though we have a training staff for the F16's---it depends on what pakistan would be getting---BLK52---V---or BLK61.
If it is aesa---it will take some time to integrate is as well---because now you are playing with different rules because you are in a different world as far as information coming to you is concerned.
Those saying that the J10C is like 50 % of the F16---then in reality the JF17 would be somewhere 40% of the F16's.
Getting new aircrafts and maintaining and managing the existing ones are judged on different pleateaus---. The U S may refuse the sale of the F16's but may not refuse the upkeep---that would be going too far and it won't happen.
Even used and re-furbished one could make it thru.
As for the mirage 2k's and rafale---pakistan should have looked at what kind of service they had gotten out of the mirage 3/5's. It is supposedly the only country that is operating the mirage 3/5.
Buying Rafales in 2003-04 would have been a Coupe de Grace one more time and it would have rectified the mistake of getting the F16's in the 80's.
Indians would not buy american aircraft---and there would be nothing in the market to compete with the rafale.
And instead of going for the 72 F16's at that time---32 Rafales would have done the job very nicely---. Our delays---we don't even have the 72 F16---the new ones---till now.
And indeed the final decision making must be taken away from PAF for buying an aircraft---they need to have aircraft A--B picked up---and let the state make the decision---what is more feasible and readily available.
Just like in the case of the chinese awacs and swedish ones----. Mushy made a great decision to reduce the numbers of swedish aircraft and got the chinese instead.
It would take around 5 years to integrate the J10C---. So---now is the perfect time to switch gears and head in a different direction----. The opponent is getting a new aircraft---it will take him time to integrate.
And we can have deliveries of the J10C on a fastrak. Maybe in 2 years time---we can over a sqdrn delivered.