kasper95
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I don't understand what's the problem in India protesting. And regarding 8 F 16's giving heart attack,we rejected much better version of what you might get on technical grounds as they don't perform as per our expectations. we know in and out of the capabilities of F16's so no one is loosing sleep over it in India.do you honestly reckon the US senate has it in them to sell pakistan 60 F-16s which is less then half of what is needed to replace 190 aircraft. when 8 F-16s caused so much angina for india another 10 will lead to them having a heart attack and any thing more then this will cause them to have bypass surgery.
now let me tell you why we protest,the reason is to deprive Pakistan of only source of good fighters it can get.how let me explain ?
Pakistan has four options to get fighters 1)European 2)Russian 3)Chinese 4)American
European plains are too expensive and they won't give soft loans to purchase so Pakistan cannot afford,or even if you can afford cannot in numbers which will have an impact.
Russian plains you won't get 1)they won't give soft loans ,they need cash 2) India Russia relations have not reached a level where Russia will do something which can threaten India.3)India is still Russia's number one purchaser of defence equipment
Chinese planes not mature enough and PAF has no faith in Chinese plane's capabilities with out a reliable engine .otherwise PAF would have opted for Chinese planes ,when Chinese would have been happy to provide soft loans. PAF has tested some of the platforms .
American are the only planes which PAF can afford not because they are cheap but because they are subcidised. they won't sell you any other plane other that F16 And that's exactly India was trying to cut. Those are your only front line fighters ,if for 8 Pakistan gets with so many hurdles you can imagine what would have happened for more.
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