Your whole riposte is a red herring.
As if "making" a cruise missile automatically makes pakistan capable of developing turbofans.
Turbofans are a whole another beast, more countries can make nukes than turbofans.
Pakistan is yet to even R&D a small turbofan forget about a fighter aircraft sized powerplant.
As for Nirbhay, who told you it's going to be canceled? We tested a new indigenous turbofan engine for the same in this year alone.
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Nirbhay's initial failures are completely normal, that's how cruise missile R&D works.
If you look at Tomahawk tests before induction; they took almost a decade and had 30 something failures before they deemed it induction worthy.
Hell, the newer tactical Tomahawk immediately post the Block IIIs(being developed around 2002-2005)which are more similar to Nirbhay with its GPS guidance and other advanced avionics, had similar failures with 3 straight failures in a row in its initial testing alone.
While pakistan suddenly claims it has conducted successful tests of Babur supposedly based on the Tomahawk which itself was going through failures during the same time period, and inducted the Babur after a few tests.
Yeah right, the market leaders and pioneers of cruise missile tech take decades and after countless failures are able to induct their LACM, whereas pakistanis allegedly reverse engineer the same system(Tomahawk, btw occasionally fails even now post induction) and induct theirs after a handful of tests and zero failures?
I have said this before here in pdf, cruise missiles are entirely very complicated systems that are virtually autonomous planes almost as close to RPA's as to actual missiles; and to say that pak achieved something at a fraction of the cost, time and testing numbers than what it took the US, then your are just fooling yourself.
At best pakistan integrates while a 3rd party does most of the work, hence no development of Babur ever took place in pakistan and in all probability "Babur" is a downgraded version of either the chinese YJ-18 or the CJ-10.
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