In weapons purchase, there is never a fair game----and the best system is not always need to be purchased all the time----. Sometimes the second best can do as good a job as the first best because they are so closely matched----.
Yes, everybody makes mistakes----but when it comes to PAF---they have set a new standards for folly for whicha yardstick has not been developed yet.
MK till today i haven't understood your stance . No offense but with all that difficult phrases you can make your posts interesting but i am still unable to pick a single stance, i know you are the one who will never ever leave your persistence
Ok i agree with you that PAF committed a blunder, now here are the main points of your past posts and form the new ones too
1) According to you F-16 is a good platform and PAF should have/had acquire it as its tested and US had so much trust on Pakistan that they provided them with Aim-120 which they didn't to egypt (you said in one of your posts)
2) M-2000 was a good platform so PAF lost an opportunity with that, as they got a chance in 80's and 90's (again from one of your post)
3) Swedish make the best technical equipment , PAF should have gone for Gripen (from your post)
Now look at 3 points from your posts, man you are obsessed with every offer , you want PAF to do all these three things and if PAF hadn't done any of the following you are going to bash them to death and not only that you will generalize the whole Pakistan nation and say "they had their head deep down in sh!t (your wording)"
Now be realistic , in 80's we would have gone with either one of the two i.e m-2000 or f-16 and PAF went for F-16's (which according to you are good ones and sophisticated and all that yadda yadda) atleast 100 of them (most were embargoes , thats another story) now if PAF would have gone for M-2000 you would have bashed by saying we lost an opportunity of f-16's . Now its evident from your posts that you like both options , so b/w your two wishes one had to come true while the other left begging and in both cases the fate was same i.e bashing by your side
Then after embargo we got a chance to put our hands on M-2000 but we didn't , and for me that was the only missed opportunity that would have been grabbed
Now come to Gripen , around early 2000 Gripen was offered to us but again at the same time f-16 were offered along with bvrs and PAF could have only opted one of both , so they went for f-16s as by that PAF got a chance to not only get their hands on latest bvr missiles which PAF was lacking and there was a dire need of that but also the MLUs for old ones. Plus the infra-structure and the flying experience we had with them . Now again in this situation both are/were your favourites and again was a thing of choice b/w two wishes , if PAF would have gone for Gripen same MK would have been bashing PAF by saying PAF would have gone for f-16's as they have infra-structure yada yada also you as always would have been there to back up american technology as you always do
MK you have to understand that PAF budget is very minute so unlike US or KSA we are not having our pockets full with $$$$ to avail all the options, even they wouldnot have done so .
MK for heaven sake come out of this mind set, its been 3 years i am on this forum and i have seen your most of the posts all filled with same stuff over and over again and that typical bashing.
Bashing is not the solution for everything neither is generalizing the whole public and using slang for them , if you have so much to blame the general public to not doing anything against corruption and you are so desperate about that why not "You" come in Pakistan and do something about it ,as far as i know you are having Pakistan flag in your location part nahhh. Sitting in US or wondering around in your Mercedez benz will not do anything .Come here and feel the music like we are doing here.
I have seen many people who can do all this bashing stuff and are good at it rather best at it but when they are asked to do something constructive they have nothing to contribute,
Your 40 years life experience goes on vacation if you are not able to do anything constructive. A person is not represented by its age but by the work he does