We are discussing here on rumours. Rest assured we wont be doing anything to harm the Turks. We cant even imagine it. In 1920s you found us by your side even when the whole world was against you. It was not for gaining any physical benefit, it was just out of our love for the ottomans.
Wait, so our exports to egypt mean we are equipping Sisi to fight you? So were the fleet support vessels that you sold to india meant to distribute flowers to your pakistani brothers?
Your relations with egypt has nothing to do with us. We dont support one brother over the other and we wont...
Brother, no need to flare up, my point was just that the JF-17 is still not mature enough to replace the Mirages in strike role on 1:1 basis. JF-17 can perform the task of Mirages but still not as good as the Mirages themselves. And if the Horus news is true, why would PAF still want to buy used...
This is no irony here. You just cant replace an ol' Hilux pickup with a new Corolla. Both serve their own purposes. One country might be exporting one of them but still importing the other, there stand no contradictions.
US and Europe for instance though producing Boeings and Airbuses...
Lets be honest here, Rafale is no Alien-Flying-Saucer. IAF would ideally want to hurl Meteors on our jets from a distance they deem we cant reply, which again would be assuming that we dont possess PL-15s and even if we dont, they know a 101% that we would retaliate not only to match their tally...
Ever heard of Cost-Benefit ratio? Its all about leveraging existing infrastructure to add numbers at a throw away price.
You know what other designs are from 70s era? Mig-29 (first flight 1977), F-15 (first flight 1972), F-16 (first flight 1974). Infact the C-130 which your AF recently bought...
Interestingly, RC-400 Radar can reportedly fire Russian missiles as well. Which basically means the radar architecture allows non-Nato products to be mated (sort of open-code).
This would be an excellent additional bonus, considering firing Chinese missiles should be possible with slight coding...
I totally agree with @Bilal Khan (Quwa). What the people here dont understand is how the product development process works.
The test flight is carried out only when the prototyping phase is already finished. The successful testing of a product is proceeded by the production phase.
Prototyping...
Look how small we as a country are, and yet we continue playing the superpower games. This path is risky and we have taken blows, so what? we faced it, yet the Nation is standing stronger than before.
It requires courage to side one power over the other, and even more courage to side the other...
I read somewhere that as soon as he realized he is on our territory, we swallowed a piece of paper. Is it true?
If yes, do we know what it was? Must have been something really secret!
Well i might be wrong, but you are most probably sitting behind a MB W-204, to the like of one shown here. Whether a facelift or not, I cant say!
PS: Forgive me Mods for being 'slightly' off topic :no::offtopic: