Qutb-ud-din Aybak
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you are only talking about attack mode and air to ground missions.India will never need to fly all over Pakistan to fight an enemy, period.
Check the breadth of Pakistan and placement of most of it's defence establishments how far are they from Indian borders???
Infact using any thing more then Tejas will be overkill for Pakistan.
you never understood. suppose you are right and your tejas try to attack peshawer base and and many F16 appears and lock it. Let suppose mighty tejas win the battles too. not the question is simple, after waisting so much fuel over enemy territory and wasting let suppose 20 minutes with F16s, how is it gonna come back to indian nearest base?
lets put os this way in low medium SEAD/DEAD precission bombing role and 3-5 KM flight altitude combat radius of LCA on internal fuel only with full 3.5 tonne weapons load is 350-395 Km which means a LCA from a forward indian base fully laden can attack as far as hindu kush ranges and come back still with 25% fuel left and even if there is an eventuality it still have IFR probe and big biys like Mig29 or MKi (buddy refule it in flight) if there is no refuler around... GOT IT
then LCA MK1A is already in testing with LRDE made UTTAM GaA based AESA radar and is more aerodynamic and has 25% lesser drag and is said to be 550Kgs less havies than MK1 model and has a La-SPECTRA type GaN ASEA based EW+ECM+Internal Jammer& RWR suite ann minurtised and intigrated and slaved to a central DATABUS that saves bot space and easier to provide better & more compact heat dinspensation/cooling systems making it even better for longer sorties