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Stop polluting the thread. You don’t know the first thing about drones or tanks. It makes the thread a chore to read for people who are actually here for useful information.

Not even sure why such misinformation is being tolerated, regardless of the members background.

Haider is the future of Al-Khalid. It’s a better Al-Khalid 2 than HIT could ever make. It makes no financial or logistical sense to work on AK-2. HIT will learn a lot more from the localization and indigenization of Haider than it would have from AK-2, which FYI there was very little actual...

Argentina has less of a say in this matter than people think. I’d argue US is the biggest decider here of what they get, followed by The Brits and Argentinians. So far we’re just assuming US is gonna go with whatever Britain demands, we’re forgetting that they could decide that China is a bigger...

3rd Gen for Gunner, 2nd for commander AFAIK. Any thermals is better than no thermals. Most tanks don’t have CITVs at all. And just because it’s 2nd Gen doesn’t mean it’s bad or worst than third generation, Abrams uses a 2nd Gen thermal (or did so until very recently) which was better than most...

Argentine Defense budget announced yesterday. It’s been increased significantly to nearly 6 billion. Now they definitely have the money for a new fighter acquisition. As I said before, still literally anyones game between F-16 and JF-17. Other options much less likely but not out of the running...

Yes, independent thermal sights. 2nd Gen.

And who do you think revealed all this information :) AK-1 production is stopping at 120. 100 AK-1 orders canceled for VT4s. Does not mean work on improving it is stopping.

Who says work on the AK has stopped :)

The army seems to disagree. Only pros. Larger caliber = larger size = longe range.

Discord. Significantly lower. Only the First 176 are 4.88 million a piece. ToT, local production and assembly is being done for a reason. Varies greatly with what ammo is being used. Can’t just be a single number like that. I’ve explained enough times why people who think drones make tanks...

52 Calibre confirmed.

The Armor numbers of AK aren’t public with or without ERA, let alone FY4. And thankfully it will stay that way. One thing I can tell you is that AK and AK-1 have identical armor.

They’re only feasible if HIT can fit the Chinese powertrain into the AK-1. Remains to be seen if they can accomplish that. If not they might go for the ERA with the Ukrainian engine, but that sounds like a bad idea given how underpowered it is.

Makes sense if you look at it this way; All the older ones are foreign purchases that weren’t produced in Pakistan (at least not in any large number. E.g out of the nearly 300 acquired, only 20 Type 85s were produced in Pakistan at the end of the 90s). But with the AK and the AZ it was local...

Nor is it visible in export orders, flight ops/CAPS and in the list of Competent Fighter platforms. 12000$ per hour to fly for an LCA that you’re already paying over 50 mil a piece for. And you wonder why nobody wants to buy it. I’ve talked about Tejas in length before and how I don’t think...

Probably because we don’t have any for it or if we do they haven’t been used.

According to my Argentinian Friends. MiG-35 and Tejas are “very much not” in the running for the tender. The only two options are the F-16 and the JF-17. The F-16 honestly makes far more logistical and political sense for Argentina. Logistical because their current A4F use a bunch of components...

The F35 is better than the F22 in most ways. The AMCA is a pipe dream as of right now. If and when it flies in post 2030, if it’s still not better than an F22 from 3 decades ago, then AMCA has failed already. But before that, why don’t we wait for Tejas to actually fly first before we get...

They don’t have the money. They have a rather small defense budget. Flankers risk CAASTA. Chinese Flanker series isn’t offered for export. Leaves behind J-10C (back to the money problem). Might be so they don’t attract too much attention from the Brits this early?