ACE OF THE AIR
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Historically Pakistan has been inducting Western equipment... How ever during that time many Pakistani pilots were sent to various friendly countries where they flew Russian and other aircraft that were not in the PAF inventory. This gave both the manufacturer and the pilot enough know how on what tactics can be employed and the pilots knew what is the threat perception.I think if we can manage to get F-16 and J-10 B and SU-35 let say 100 each than we can use JF-17 and F-16 and J-10 B as defending Pakistan and SU-35 can be used for massive attack inside enemy territory.
Now going back to the question of having more F-16's...
What I know at the moment there are no F-16's available that can be bought mlu'ed and if new block 52's are bought they would be delivered some where around 2018-2020 or later... By this time there will be enough old F-16's available for sale so what should be done in the time they are not available.
There were 2 options given to Pakistan one was to get the F-15's that are available but up-gradation would bring them to
the same time as 2018.
Second option was to get the F-18's from Australia but those are also not available till 2018. They also require setup of infrastructure which costs money.
Now by adding J-10's or J-15/16's Pakistan would be putting all her resources in the hands of China which might not work out bad... China and Egypt is purchasing Su-35's so PAF is going to fly them...Russia is now considering it is not a bad idea to sell these to Pakistan directly because they would know the aircraft in-out but they are not going to tell how to develop it further.
If Pakistan gets Su-35 aircraft they also get the engine which could be added to the JF-17's or J-10's and J-31's giving commonality.