My assessment is that
Either: the current high intensity CAP missions have put the spare parts for the Mirage Vs under pressure and they need more spare parts.
Or: After the recent stand-off the PAF has decided that the process for replacing the Mirage Vs is too slow and they need to...
Very misinformed article. He says just 2 squadrons of F-35's can destroy entire PAF and IAF combined. Research is contrary to that. 24 F-35s cant even carry enough missiles to destroy 1/4th of just PAF.
The whole thing was based on false assumptions. GDP of West and East Pakistan were equal.
The issue of language is especially interesting. Why is Urdu considered a West Pakistani language? At partition, only about 5% of West Pakistanis spoke Urdu as a native language. If it was about east vs...
It is kind of funny that India decided to attack for the suicide bomber which was a local Kashmiri but no retaliation for PAF airstrikes which targeted a military Brigade HQ, a battalion HQ and Supply Depots, and India accepts all this was an act of war. So India did have a choice, to stay quite...
Because it crashed within minutes of take-off. Also a helicopter can cover 100km in about 17 minutes. Secondly, an air alert all over India was issued after PAF airstrikes, so makes no sense for a helicopter to be airborne unless it was on an important mission.