Great to see how everyone here is speculating, discussing the military value and importance, the alternatives that we could have gone for and boasting how we have selected a quality machine. There even have been talks about local manufacturing even TOT
No to mentioned some extra ordinary indigenous program suggestion.
ALL THAT while ignoring the fact that non of this makes any logical sense at all. Not one person can give a logical reason why would PAA go for these in numbers ignoring numerous other better and much cheaper, not to mentioned reliable options. The ONLY logical use of these will be in roles they are being already used in, that is 6th aviation cabinet division for VIP transport, Use by PM and for emergency relief operation. All this means that there wont be too many of these coming, most probably in single numbers.
No wonder why, we are an emotional nation who put quite a lot of things before common sense. This is why we get fooled by same politician over and over again, same countries again and again, repeat the same mistakes AND never get tired of that.