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Please take out the HEAVY=RAFALE/J-11 from your list. If PAF needed these aeroplanes, they would have ordered them instead of more F-16, JF-17 and J-10. But they have not ordered them at all, not even a single squadron. Pakistan developing its own technology is more crucial to modernisation of...

Sir MuradK, would you like to disappoint this fellow by posting some tales from your time in the PAF? :lol:

Thanks for that information sir. Surely the current model cannot carry enough weight for armament? Sounds like they will enlarge the Uqab, fit a bigger motor and add a hardpoint under each wing. How hard can it be? Make it stealthy enough to not get detected, strong enough to carry 2-4 PGM...

The way I see it, the only way to avoid significant maintenance/repair/support costs is to procure more second-hand: - A-5 - F-7 - Mirage 3 - F-16 The first two are obsolete and the third needs significant upgrades to compete, therefore also obsolete. The fourth is a good platform, however...

Sweet pictures of the Mirage ROSE glass cockpit. If PAF wants them to be BVR capable, they can simply integrate SD-10 with their Grifo M3 radars. Right now they are probably more useful as trainers for aerial refuelling and strike platforms though, hence the fitting of aerial refuelling probes.

Hint: first, learn some lessons about REALITY. Your brag-mos is nowhere near an air-to-air missile such as Meteor or R-77M1. Only in your dreams can it shoot down a Saab 2000 flying and manoeuvring at 400 mph while being jammed by an Erieye AESA radar. YOU provide proof that it can be used as...

Saiko, so far you have been assuming that the TWR, instantaneous and sustained turn rates of JF-17 are inferior to F-16 and Su-30. I have read a Chinese interview with a Chinese and a Pakistani test pilot translated by some guys on a military forum, the Chinese test pilot who had flown F-16 as...

Sweet pictures, thanks for showing. The gun is a 23mm twin barrel "gast" gun, Russian design. How is it better than the revolver cannon in Mirage and gatling gun in F-16? Mirage's cannon is 30mm with similar rate of fire and F-16's is 20mm with much higher rate of fire. Are you in the air...

Like you said, this is a healthy debate, I must not get hyper, so no. How about you tell me the facts that the author uses to prove flankers are superior to F-18 super hornet and so F-35/F-22 are needed to defeat them (as you know that they are there). Also, I bet you know that USA will never...

Firstly, no it is not a good concept, it is reality as of next year. Secondly, so what if this mki is fitted with bragmos? If InAF launches cruise missiles at Pakistan, PAF can easily retaliate with their own cruise missile launched from Mirage, JF and soon J-10. Where is the logic in your...

I read your other posts and decided that you are not like some of the other people here, so I deleted the parts of my above post that you have already addressed with this: :) Please ignore my previous post except for the statement I left there. I will just reply to this. It seems you are...

Of ~190 F-7, ~60 are newer PG models, they are only about 10 years old so they will stay as front-line fighters for some time longer, until at least 2015. The ~120 F-7P models have had quite a few crashes, so they will start being phased out as soon as they can be replaced by JF I think. A-5...

Why do you believe what those Australians write in those "reports"? They write that crap because they want the Australian government to buy F-35 and F-22 instead of F-18. Why does US Navy buy F-18 Super Hornet if it is no match for Sukhoi flankers?

Notice in this picture there are some antennas sticking out from the top of KJ-200 aka ZDK-03, just in front of the radar array. If they are satellite communication antennas, then wouldn't it suggest that PAF has access to a satellite for communications at least?

Firstly, if it is worth equipping the latest Aspide missiles alongside active homing BVRAAMs, why didn't Italy buy it alongside their AMRAAMs? Secondly, why induct yet another BVRAAM alongside SD-10, AMRAAM and possibly MICA ER? This will use up valuable time as well as money, both of which...

You think J-11B is exactly the same as Su-27 or something? Wrong. It is heavily modified. I have read that not only is the air intake design modified for reduced RCS, but the entire aircraft uses far more composite materials, improvements have also been made to the structure because the original...

You keep saying that JF-17 pilots might have to avoid WVR combat. But do you know that JF is equipped with a Helmet Mounted Sight/Display system that can be used for targeting aircraft with the latest High Off-BoreSight (HOBS) missiles such as A-darter? Surely you also know that JF has an...

Bottom left - possible colour scheme of PAF F-10A: Looks pretty sweet.

Why spend time and money on buying, inducting and training to use a missile that will soon be obsolete, if not already? There are so many better options out there, SD-10 for example will almost certainly be far cheaper as well as more suited to the air-to-air role. :) Rather than integrating...

All those "indigenous" weapons and research programmes, but India is still too scared of little "terrorist state" Pakistan armed only with Chinese "junk". I feel sorry for you kids, it must burn you up pretty bad that even though you outnumber "terrorist state" Pakistan 3:1 you can't do...