I would be very worried about any Russian machinery. Their whole economy is suffering and thus most equipment made there are going through contraption.
The "high altitude terrain" are also mountainous and you can ask the Soviets and Americans about that in Afghanistan. It just helps build more tunnels and offers better protection from missiles.
And in the 1990 Gulf War, the US rather used accurate strikes against chosen Iraqi military...
So, the article basically says that by good governance of water, Pakistan can efficiently improve its water resource. And all of those can be done without Israel.
It's mostly MBZ and MBS' fear of Islamic democracy against their tyranny. That's why both UAE and Saudi Arabia were happy with Russian intervention in Syria, overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood and help a dictator rise to power in Libya once again and finance him massively to get an a$$ whooping by...
It's "supposed to" but it won't. There's a reason American's have F-22 and F-35 needs constant refuelling due to shorter range and more so for carrier based ones.
It is but that doesn't mean it's on par with Rafale. Pakistan is using a cheap 4th generation jet to replace the outdated 3rd generation jets. Rafale itself can be considered as 4.5 gen.
But normally you would also need a troop carrier to take the soldiers in the vehicle that needed to be recovered. So an APC can act as both a troop carrier and a armed support vehicle.
Does PL-15 have an AESA based integrated system? Otherwise it's quite easy to jam the signal between two different mediums. JF-17 also has a single engine which is quite under-powered and the RD-33 and its variants have quite a lot of problems.
The JF-17 isn't something that is cutting edge but...