MastanKhan
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Well finally some good ol members are here so some quality posts soo far (ignoring the ones off topic ofcourse)
Anyways there was debate of how we shouldve opted for Rafales and all ...and that France had its door opened for us in the 90's...
No doubt we missed the Mirage 2000 opportunity back in the 90's but decisions such as that are not based simply on the fact that they were good to us in the past AFAIK...Its really easy for us to sit here in the present and criticize an old decisions but we are not in my opinion considering the things PAF had to consider before deciding to avail or reject the M2k.....
-Reservations for old customers:-
Normally one would have reservations for an older customer like Russia has for India etc.
However look at the French we were operating Mirages in the 70's and they started selling IAF a competitor of their customer with their latest technology in the mid 80's.
-Technology to be sold to PAF:-
M2k no doubt is an amazing plane but does any one have the knowledge of what they were willing to supply..The biggest area I know where PAF lacked in the late 90's was the BVR capability..were the French agreed to supply us with that??
-Future implications:-
with us sanctioned would we go for a plane that itself is sanction prone??
-Economical conditions:-
With Pakistan pouring huge amounts of money in the 90's for our nuclear programme could we afford to have an entire new platform with us (the cost of the platform +spares +maintenance and all the other costs)
-The future arrival of Super 7
You have a plane which you in future could modify to your needs,it will be cost effective and benefit us R&D wise.
Hi,
The french desperately wanted pakistan to buy the M2K---already a mirage operator--it was thought a natural progression----. Pakistan went for the number 1 fighter----and left the number 2 open for grabs----. Basically there was no difference between the number 1 and number 2---pretty much the same as the F86 sabre and the Gnat---.
By going for the number 2 Paf would have shut the door on india getting the best european fighter---india could never get the american fighter in the 80's 90's----. They could have had the 36 or 72 f16's----.
Just tunnel vision---just narrow thinking---this air force was so pathetic that it didnot even show up during the kargil crisis---. The stories about sanctions are SOB STORIES ( DUKHI KAHANI ).
Look at what india has done---tried to close the door by going with Rafale----taking away the french submarine deal and the jf17 weapons and electronic package plus delaying our jf 17 program by another 5 years---.