You do realize your entire fleet is non-stealth? The same for us and our adversaries. So we are not talking about hypothetical scenarios, rather what we face today and over the next decade at least in terms of the threat from the fleet of our non-stealth adversary. This goes for Pakistan and for Turkey alike. As such you have to think short, medium and long term.You can not shoot a fighter from 100km or 150km far away thats a mythology, specially stealth is coming. Undetected sneaking to your enemy is the future, you people live in the past.
Secondly, the issue is not always of being able to shoot down the adversary. We are talking counter air operations and denial of freedom to operate and air superiority here. If we get the first shot off, the adversary is already taking counter-measures, evading our approaching missiles which affects their offensive operations against us. There are a lot of benefits to having this first-shot capability at extended stand-off ranges. Again, I say this based on what we have seen happen in the very recent past in reality and not just some theoretical stuff.
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