It is the question whether IAF is a risk. It is riskier for them to start a war and face the results with other weapons like BM, CM or the 160 million Pakistani... Even in case of nuclear they would have to face the result of mutual destruction.
Ceterus Pasibus with fighterjets as the only option. India and Russian planes are always same risk as Pakistan and US planes... Either they fall out of the sky due to bad parts or the boycot starts again... With so many Russian planes they are just slaves for Russia. Every engine of the MKI does return to Russia for major overhaul... Every upgrade does take decades and with every chance they miss o bu something from Russia, France or US the options are pretty clear that these parties will sell to opponent. We have seen angry French faces when it comes to reselling arabian Mirage2000. We have seen how they try to earn cash with upgrading those oldes Mirage 2000h... There is no nation with that old and outdated Mirages 2000. We have seen with France not really intrested in selling Rafale... So the probability that France will sell parts/planes to Pakistan is pretty logic. Even Keymag forum which is pretty much BRF2 is talking about mini rafale when talking about JF17-2.
The chance that Russia will see to Pakistan is increasing. There is no way India can pressure. We could not fly JF17 with Russian engines... Guess what.. We do. Same goed for FC20. Pretty big chance it has Russian parts. We have bought plenty Russian Mil;s and there is a huge chance we will get more.
The USA sells to those where the lobby and politicians work for. The difference is that Pak did get pretty much everything for free and the Indians have to pay... Some Indians say that beggars can't be chosers (Keymag) but the reality is that we need to see whether India will buy US, whether they can learn to handle high tech, whether they will get restrictions... And even then it will take them 5 years to get the numbers and qualified pilots...
China in the mean time will have mastered everything so we will gradually move from JF17 to JF17b, We will move from FC20/J10B to something like JxxP... There is more and more chance we will be able to produce them inhouse. Certainly the oerhauling. What will the Indians have? I think probably if they are lucky the bumbers.
Ceterus Pasibus with fighterjets as the only option. India and Russian planes are always same risk as Pakistan and US planes... Either they fall out of the sky due to bad parts or the boycot starts again... With so many Russian planes they are just slaves for Russia. Every engine of the MKI does return to Russia for major overhaul... Every upgrade does take decades and with every chance they miss o bu something from Russia, France or US the options are pretty clear that these parties will sell to opponent. We have seen angry French faces when it comes to reselling arabian Mirage2000. We have seen how they try to earn cash with upgrading those oldes Mirage 2000h... There is no nation with that old and outdated Mirages 2000. We have seen with France not really intrested in selling Rafale... So the probability that France will sell parts/planes to Pakistan is pretty logic. Even Keymag forum which is pretty much BRF2 is talking about mini rafale when talking about JF17-2.
The chance that Russia will see to Pakistan is increasing. There is no way India can pressure. We could not fly JF17 with Russian engines... Guess what.. We do. Same goed for FC20. Pretty big chance it has Russian parts. We have bought plenty Russian Mil;s and there is a huge chance we will get more.
The USA sells to those where the lobby and politicians work for. The difference is that Pak did get pretty much everything for free and the Indians have to pay... Some Indians say that beggars can't be chosers (Keymag) but the reality is that we need to see whether India will buy US, whether they can learn to handle high tech, whether they will get restrictions... And even then it will take them 5 years to get the numbers and qualified pilots...
China in the mean time will have mastered everything so we will gradually move from JF17 to JF17b, We will move from FC20/J10B to something like JxxP... There is more and more chance we will be able to produce them inhouse. Certainly the oerhauling. What will the Indians have? I think probably if they are lucky the bumbers.