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Good news for india since it'll help in future development of more advanced variants.But if we consider the present scenario paf's f16s are being equipped with aim 120D bvr aams.How are we gonna counter that threat since our r77s are older and less advanced than latest aim120d ?Astra in present state seems even inferior to r77.
PAF getting AIM-120C5 not D.
IAF already has R-27 with 130 km range and RVV-AE with 100 km range. But Astra is superior in terms of operational capabilities because jammers for a A2A missile can be developed by the source country or any other country that bought the missile. So its better to have an indigenous missile. Astra is modern, immune to jamming, Ku-band seeker, smokeless propellant, dual processor based computer, fibre-optic gyro based INS, laser proximity fuse and directional warhead made it one of the best in its class.