Mav3rick
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Hi, you know what in the end They still are 2 steps-miles ahead of us you can never match them in air superiority that is what they aim at to have complete air superiority-air dominance. AMRAAMs will do the Job but to their limits IF the Air War stretches long we will run out of them and many of F-16s.
You mean we will run out of 500 AIM-120C & 750 SD-10 in a war? Besides, you are again missing the point. In case of war, IAF will face not only PAF but also AWACS/SAM Assets etc. PAF will only be required to defend Pakistani Airspace, whereas IAF would be expected to dominate it......advantage will be on our side.
Please forget FC-20, there is no credible information on when it would be delivered and how many of them here certainly is no plans for 100+ FC-20s PAF is severely restricted due to funds either deliberately or factually. There is also not much information on IF PAF/Army has long range SAMs and we know we have habit to keep our eyes-ears shut and heads down when we screw up so the silence point to screw up not to conspiracy that "oh we have a surprise". IF PAF wanted to surprise hindustan it would have pressured China into procuring atleast J-10As in good numbers that should have been the baseline along with F-16s in early 2000's...
There was no urgency to procure J-10's as IAF does not operate any asset that we currently cannot handle. Their acquisition of MMRCA pushed PAF to look for J-10s in the first place and well, rest assure that PAF will be operating J-10's before IAF operates Rafael. P.S. FD-2000+ has been in operation for the past 2 years.
But all the best to JF-17/J-10 programs I would wish it to be on par or with marginal difference-distance behind BLK 52-60. Though it is J-10 related thread just one last thing the later Blocks III-IV have to be on par-equal to F-16s Block 52-60 in design parameters and technologies to compete with neighbor having mass produced for a reason..., PAF may try but not rely-depend on alternative solution that is FC-20 but take JFT one step ahead as Japanese did to F-2 in cooperation with US.
F-16 Blk 52+ to Blk 60 are 'current generation' Jets so comparing JF-17 to such an established performer at this stage is quite unfair. Give it 5-10 years and you will have something that will outperform all existing F-16's even Blk 60.