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All things considered, JH-7 wouldn't be a bad option. It isn't a fighter, but if we look at the JF-17 as the interceptor and tactical attack fighter, the JH-7 can be our standoff weapon truck. It could probably carry Ra'ad too.

Nasr is atomic artillery, but the Army can also load them up with conventional HE warheads too.

For some hardware acquisitions, there ought to be an effort to secure offsets to help the private sector. For example, if we continue acquiring Western avionics for the JF-17, maybe have those Western companies invest in creating Pakistani firms to undertake some of the production work? Or if...

There are, but not as big as the publicly owned ones.

Yea - but when it comes to drones, we have been closer to CASC (e.g. CH-3/A).

I'm not well connected with people in the Army, but if I had to guess, I think there's recognition among some of the value of embracing the AR-15, and then developing it up into something like the MKEK MPT-76. Remember, the AR-15 is a very common and widely embraced platform, you're not going to...

It looks cool ... look, it even has a little brother (SOM-J for internal bays). But if anything, it could be inspiration for what a Ra'ad II (for JF-17) could look like (whilst retaining the nuclear capacity and range of the Ra'ad)...

It's sehri time soon ... but I will eat popcorn. Every reply from here on is going to be interesting, very interesting. Every Pakistani, Indian, Saudi, Emirati, Qatari, Turk, pet, pet's pet, is going to have an opinion about what you just wrote :D

14 years in terms of Pakistan is not very long if you think about it... The Super-7 was offered to the PAF by CAC in 1995, it was signed in 1999, and the first operational squadron was live in 2010. It is an interesting idea. It's basically a lightweight missile powered by a turbojet. I'm not...

The development challenge will be a smaller and lighter ALCM that retains the range and room for a nuclear warhead. I agree with a subtle point made by @Oscar and @Bilal Khan 777 - there's no point in SOM. No matter what, we have to look at the SOM from the perspective of Turkey's defence...

Well. The airborne stand-off range nuclear deterrent has to live on beyond the Mirage. Worst case scenario, we at least know the idea to develop a lighter and smaller ALCM exists, it is just a matter of time if and when it materializes. Best case scenario, we'd get the new ALCM as well as a new...

He's a defence analyst/professional who runs PakDef. He is fairly well connected and is often asked to give commentary by Defense News. Him and Usman Shabbir are reliable sources.

Most likely the admin and operations budget. Over the fiscal year we'd see the armed forces award contracts to PAC, HIT, KSEW, POF, etc.

@Arsalan I still think the CZ BREN 2 would make a good fit, especially if we can bundle in a Meopta optics plant in Pakistan.

You can directly ping him on PakDef - their forum or their Twitter.

So we give Scotland Yard MQM, the Italian mafia Ishaq Dar's Dubai property, and Germany the keys to someone's Swiss account (we'll throw in a Holocaust denier or two as well). We can buy EF Typhoon with ease.

They got a line of credit from France, which likely only came because it's all but an open secret that Egypt is getting Gulf aid. If not aid, then at least a shadow guarantor.

I can only go by what I know for sure. We see the Turks show off the full gamut of what they can do by literally integrating a LACM from home onto the F-17 and F-4, and then I learn we can't deploy Ra'ad from JF-17, but rather, our Mirages.That is demoralizing to me because I deeply believed it...

You're basically talking about wanting a JAGM like system. At its core, you're looking at a standard laser-guided air-to-ground missile (e.g. Hellfire, Mokopa, Mizraak), but for fire/forget, you'd need an IIR or - in Brimstone's case - active mmW homing. The active mmW homing is tightly held by...

We can always leverage those UK or Dubai properties and Swiss accounts. That's our hidden oil reserve.