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Those numbers are irrelevant. Due to the altitude problem, all they can do properly is air defence. Most of their strike aircraft will be useless.
Neither you nor anyone on this forum are equipped with flight data to make that conclusion.
Anyhow, most of the PLAAF has inferior tech compared to the IAF. Only a few upcoming jets are hi-tech, like J-10C and J-11D, and most of these jets are in theatre commands not facing India.
And so we're just conveniently going to forget about the 200+ J-11B, ~20 J-15, ~100 J-16, 300+ J-10A/B, ~20 J-20, and the hundreds of J-11A & Su-30MKK/MK2?
At least these jets apparently have AESA radars and new AAMs, but even these are significantly inferior to the Rafales and upgraded MKIs. Inductions will be mostly simultaneous for both sides.
I suppose you have raw performance data for the Rafale and the Chinese fighter platforms to make this comparison?
As for others, Su-27, J-11, J-11A/B and J-10A/B are largely pointless against India due to obsolescence. That's pretty much their entire air force. With Su-30MKK, JH-7 and J-16 being strike aircraft, they are significantly less effective due to the altitude.
Keep in mind that the IAF also hundreds of legacy MiG-21s, MiG-29s, MiG-27s, Jaguars, and Mirage 2Ks, none of which are exactly ideally-equipped to wipe the floor with the fighters you've mentioned.
The Su-35 is too less and J-20 is yet to be developed.
Both the Su-35 and J-20 are in active service.
The MKI, upgraded MKI and Rafale are sufficient against both jets.
And this is based on what?
And, as usual, neither of these jets have been positioned against India yet. They need to take care of other fronts at higher priority than the Indian border, since Sino-Indian relations are positive. Which means, India is operating superior jets along the border than the Chinese are.
Any air force worth its weight in salt is capable of deploying its jets on its frontier bases in the matter of hours. In a political situation in which the risk of conflict is high, you can bet your behind that such deployments will be planned, logistically managed, and carried out before either side can militarily act.
Both are way ahead compared to China. And any weaknesses in Russian and French jets have been made up with Israeli tech. China does not have this advantage.
China does not need this "advantage" that you frequently speak of but always fail to provide evidence or argument for.
Take the new Tejas Mk1A for example. We are fitting it with an Israeli radar and EW suite, and it will fire new Israeli weapons, starting with the I-DerbyER and possibly even the new Stunner.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...-variant-of-its-dolphin-nosed-stunner-missile
Can you imagine both MKI and LCA equipped with the hypersonic Stunner, and what it can do to any opposing air force with its unmatched range, speed and twin seekers?
So even our future acquisitions are better than what PLAAF can field.
By the tone of your passage, it seems that your argument banks on a lot of speculation and prospect and not enough of the present.