This is hard to believe as why would America want Pakistan to put it's own weapons on the F-16s. That way we will have the f-16s armed to teeth whether we are under sanctions or not
The question is why would USA not want Pakistan to put US weapons on aircrafts bought from US.
They have the biggest Defence industry and they are doing business, they have big clients. On the other hand they don’t even really need our small quantity purchases to make money, we got lucky we would never have seen our F-16s that America never delivered to us even after taking money and even charged us storage.
Our aim is definitely not to be under sanctions, but we never know Thus comes the J-10B,
J-10B is with which i am most excited about way more than F-16 Ds and their dorsal spines.
J-10B It’s a Big Blessing in open and in disguise. Our co-operation with China would increase and we would be hopefully free from buying expensive Western Aircrafts and learn to build with China and build our own one day.
Is J-10B better than F-16 ? is JF-17 Better than F-16? I don’t know, i think they are not, and it is pointless to dwell on that. What J-10B gives us freedom; JF-17 development gave us the courage and gave the rest of the world a dropped jaw.
we were dishing out close to 5 billion.......PAF could have done that with Eurofighter or Dassault.
We are dishing out 5 billion because the equipment is worth 5 Billion, do we really want to spend this much money? The answer is Nope.
Why are we spending this money then? Reason is obvious protecting our borders etc etc.
French Tech has always been very expansive, Mirage 2000 was being considered by Gen Zia-ul-Haq but F-16 won, F-16 was way better value for money and quality then and even now.
Rafael is one damn gorgeous and capable aircraft but do I know how much it costs or do you?
Well i don’t.
Anyways we have a old F-16 fleet that also got Mid Life Upgraded in the overall deal, even if Typhoon was cheap (which i don’t think it is) we would have been left with our old F-16 A/Bs and some 10 new Typhoons. Would that have been a good deal? I think not, don’t know about others.
For that matter everyone would love to have Typhoons, Raphaels, F-35s, Gryphens and what not but it’s not that simple.
So lets wait and see if any Pakistani weapons can be added to f-16s.
Anything can be done but how practical is a innocent thought, it’s a different story.
In layman terms its like a guy comes to you with a IBM peripheral device and software encrypted to the hilt and gives you a Mac machine and Sun Solaris OS and asks you to make the Peripheral device work and software run on it. Bazonga :p
It can be done but you will first need to know the peripheral device have 30 units of it. Dismantle and destroy 80% then make a intermediate hardware unit then a software to interact with two entirely different platforms.
Think of cost and effort and more than likely danger of damaging both aircraft and the weapon with a pirated software.
