muse
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Pakistan developed K8 with China, yet it operates very few of them - PAF killed K8 for Pakistan, because they wanted a "Western" engine for that as well.
Anyway, lets focus on capacity building and not any western off the shelf anything - lets focus on building the academic and technical infrastructure and man power necessary to absorb any ToT - then it will be a question of cost only.
Pakistan cannot afford to lose it's focus, the F16 business was just plain tragic - yes, it makes sense in that there will be hundredsof these ships on the market as F35 transitions in and F16 out - however; so long as Pakistan are who they are and the US is who and what it is, there can be and will not be any accomodation on the strategic security level, certainly not to Pakistan's satisfaction and neither to the US - Pakistan and US is just a bad deal, bad for Pakistan and bad for US - better for Pakistan to focus on it's priorities and maintain healthy commercial and diplomatic ties with US - the key would remain a dedicated focus on strategic ties with china and those who can accomodate Pakistan.
Anyway, lets focus on capacity building and not any western off the shelf anything - lets focus on building the academic and technical infrastructure and man power necessary to absorb any ToT - then it will be a question of cost only.
Pakistan cannot afford to lose it's focus, the F16 business was just plain tragic - yes, it makes sense in that there will be hundredsof these ships on the market as F35 transitions in and F16 out - however; so long as Pakistan are who they are and the US is who and what it is, there can be and will not be any accomodation on the strategic security level, certainly not to Pakistan's satisfaction and neither to the US - Pakistan and US is just a bad deal, bad for Pakistan and bad for US - better for Pakistan to focus on it's priorities and maintain healthy commercial and diplomatic ties with US - the key would remain a dedicated focus on strategic ties with china and those who can accomodate Pakistan.