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We don't want political appointees but the best civilian engineers you can find would also find it difficult to work under the uniformed personnel and under BPS paygrade. We need to create a corporate and contractual management culture. In short, maintain the state ownership and regulation over...

How do you propose to do the bold?

Are we sure that's a tail art? China has recently acquired a habit of covering up parts of military items intended to be presented at ceremonies with big red ribbons and sheets.

I would suggest that PA/HIT abandon the AK-2 and acquire ToT for VT-4MBT & VT-5 light tank (LT/LBT). From what it appears, Pakistan and China are the only two countries experimenting with high plateau tank deployments. VT-5 has been designed for that purpose.

This now seems the likely case. The first prototype of AK-2 was supposed to roll out by the end of 2019. We are entering the end of 2020 & there is no evidence to suggest that even the work on the prototype has begun let alone roll it out for preliminary trials. News in the past couple of years...

I might not have been able to read between the lines or words, but it seems few (or at least one) PAF pilots had been provided access to Rafale as early as the aircraft's flight trials.

Hope to see Rafale in action.

All that you have said is incorrect. ZA Bhutto was pushing Ayub Khan for a nuclear weapons programme since the early 1960s. It didn't work out as the ruling establishment was unable to see the need. It was Bhutto who made the famous statement of "we will eat grass ...", not Zia. This...

In my opinion, it's the other way around. The state-owned military industry in India has essentially hegemonized defence production and is unwilling to concede projects to the private sector. India's state-owned military industry is by and large inefficient, and for them, the military's...

Nope. He said that in 1965 in a statement to Manchester Guardian. http://www.sunday-guardian.com/analysis/well-eat-grass-but-build-the-bomb

It is my belief, that once the Pakistani scientists and engineers successfully reverse-engineered the URENCO's centrifuges that had essentially sharpened their skills. They appear to have since developed more advance centrifuges outside of the original designs.

There is a difference between civilian nuclear programme & military nuclear programme, especially in Pakistan's case. Though it is possible to convert the civilian programme into a military programme, Bhutto sought it more prudent to start the nuclear weapons programme from scratch. Thus, 24th...

Yes to both. Bhutto stated the words in the 1960's. If I am not mistaken, sometime in 1965-1966. He expressed his official intent to develop an a-bomb for Pakistan in January 1972. India tested its n-device in 1974.

If something like Rafale or Typhoons land in Pakistan we would be honking the horns loudly as well. Though I don't think it would be wall-to-wall. Rafale is Modi's pet project, thus all the fanfare.

I mean, yeah, I can argue a little bit ... but only if you want to. But in summary, yes, nukes were the issue. Who actually fanned the issue is a different story.

Deep-seated grudge for what?

We should lease a squadron of JF-17 Block I to Azerbaijan as well.

Congrats, India.

I do not think any sort of codes are "required to fly F-16 with all of its avionics to work fully operational." It would be suicide to buy anything with that stipulation. There may, however, be technical measures in place to ensure that the US-origin fighter aircraft belonging to non-NATO states...

I doubt anyone here, or at least ones who participate here openly, has ever seen the agreement on F-16 beyond State Department's announcement. But what I am sure of is that the agreement does not restrict Pakistan from using the F-16 in any manner or form, be it against India. It is, however...