So block 40's will have kill ratio of 2 and MKI's will be sitting ducks? Quite funny.
Ground offensive are well supported by air dominant MKI's and bisons. They are well kept away from your ADF fight envelope. To counter the close proximity and get BVR more effective MKI's are based a bit interior. Lesser potent fighters are not gonna exposed to your supposed AMRAAM's before you are fired upon by MKI's or you get rid of them(unlikely).
Oh no you didn't!!! How 'bout them BISONS = "Bad Integration Shit ONly". Need I say more? Just like them BISONS, PAF's F-7 CAN also fire similar BVR's using their Italian G-M2 radars. Ask a PAF pilot on here
. But the fact is, 30-40 KM BVR through Mig 21......is STILL not potent. The Radars aren't as powerful in Mig 21 and similar airframes' as compared to the MKI's or the F-16's or the JF-17. Crappy tires put on a Mercedes CLS don't make it equal to a track Ferrari.....
Also, the proximity from the PAF's FOB's to the Indian border is crazy short than larger strike squadrons placed inside the Indian borders. The issue is, an F-7 taking off Lahore or from the Pakistani side of Kashmir can immediately lock on a fighter that's still 5-10 km inside the Indian border. Add AEW, they can see inside the Indian airspace for 200-300 km's and know when a plane takes off. You guys can do the same of course but they don't have to scramble anything till its in their basic fighter's radar's range. So your AEW becomes kind of useless to some degree, including the mighty radar of the MKI. It would be the other way around if the Pakistanis were the offensive force. You guys would be shooting them like birds...
Due to so much visibility inside your border, in a war situation, theoretically, you may have a SAM coming at you while you'd still be 40 KM's inside the India border as its the WAR. There is no air defense warning sent when coming too close to the border. Remember, your best link (if you want to grow together economically) is also your weakest link militarily. That is the shared border and literally, a few minutes flight from airbase to airbase!
I can write many strong arguments here that anyone with common sense would agree with. But you guys won't as you don't want to accept the reality. The loss of a Mirage 2000 and one MKI far exceeds the money put into used F-16's or other F-16's acquired in the 80's. So losing 40 MKI's (for example, that's a lower enough number), plus a few Mirages 2000 plus a few Jags and Migs......you are losing very critical strength against the Chinese
. That's why you wouldn't risk these expensive toys. Why were Mirages sent and not MKI's when you guys tried to attempt that per-emptive strike for media show-off? Because the risk was great, tensions were high and you might have seen a real interception taking place by the Pakistanis if they were crazy in their heads wanting war to take place. Risk or thought of an MKI going down like that, would crush the moral of the IAF that considers the MKI a super-plane sent from the Russian heaven
. That's bad press, would show that the MKI pilots aren't that great, etc, etc. Apply that effect across the border towards the Chinese end...
I can guarantee it. The war days are gone. It is all talk. Any war with Pakistan will make India insanely weaker for the Chinese, not to mention the economic loss of Trillions of dollars. I don't think anyone has the stomach for that. You guys should start talking about friendship, food, sports and movies and forget about the war. Do business together and everyone makes money, sends their kids to good schools, nice vacation, houses and relationships. That's what life is for, to enjoy!