ziaulislam
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sir govt is facing a current account financial crisis due to poor export polices(defending rupee unjustly, lack of refunds to exporters, high export taxation, ease of doing business and high co operate taxation)Well this question is not for sake of current events but it is rather to question
1- We had funds for F16 C/D 12-18 planes
2- We opted out
3- Funds should still exist for alternative Purchase
simply it doesnt has fiscal space for any big ticket acquisition currently, especially since it wants to avoid IMF
this and fact that pakistan is also not going to get 3-4 billion dollars US owes to us too
so current account crisis is real, so no big ticket deals
typhoon 40 aircraft will cost 10 billion dollars, anything else will certainly cost above 5 billion dollars, simply put the best bet is used f-16s (new available, used not available) and thunders
solution is that PML N should have done what it did in last 4 months 4 years ago
for the first time i have seen so e small reforms..otherwise it was 4 years of disaster
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so whats realistic?
we all know PML N is goign to win 2018 elections, once that happens the first things its going to do is continue to spending spree, so expect IMF approach
now two things might happen, first IMF is much stricter and forces PMLN for reforms or under USA pressure IMF is much loser like it was before and no reforms happen
in either case maximum foreign flow and current accoutn deficit means that Pakistan will not go for any major big ticket deal..
so we will only see thunders
now J-10 is not an option as fifth gen is just on horizon and thunders in coperate alot of chinese weapon and tech
f-16 is not option as new f-16 is too expensive for the cost(why not add thudners) while used f16s will not be availble unless we have better and stronger relation ship with USA
so by 2025 i dont expect any new plateform ..