Agreed partially but unfortunately right now we done have any saturation attack capable weapon ... cm400akg induction is not confirmed ... submarine attack is very risky for the submarine itself however will be an option after we get our chineses subs ...
We desperately need to work on anti.ship ballistic missile and induction of cm400akg in large number ... and indtegration of same with assets like p3c orion for a saturation attack as thnder can carry only limited number if cm400akg
a squadron for thunders firing its anti ship missiles(each can carry 2 while on patrol and 3 when fully loaded) from 200km away along with a single battery of zarb(400+km range) can fire over 40 missles+ in quick succession, true it will be protected by VLS antiship missiles but reaction time is small for sea hugging missles given you need over the horizon monitoring all the time which is lacking atleast till now in IN
Population vs ACC and Airforce vs ACC... Strange argument... CBG won't be stepping close to your boarders.. you need to locate ACC first to utilise your birds.. even in that scenario, your airforce can't afford to diversify it's fleet.. and you don't have naval wing..
AWACS to locate CBG? Looks like you forgot earth curvature..
as you said your self CBG wount be close to our boarder so it ends the argument over there
and no navy has dedicated wing of 2 squadrons,
for now the role is for mirages but this would go to multi rule thunders with sufficient range(1000+) and payload(3/2 antiship missles +2 short range AAM +2 BVRs, google for pictures)
PAF is focusing on its AWECs for the same reason, it has 2 times the AWECS IAF has(3? vs 8) and is acquiring more of SAAB
in future due to complete home built system, and economy of scale we will be able to operate 300 thunders or at-least 250(the order for now, 100 already completed) this would mean a good force of 350+ fighters/20 squadrons against IAF 34-42Sq
the goal for PAF is versatility and economy, the thunder was envisioned keeping that in mind, its all in one package, it would replace all types of other fighter thus at any given time PAF will have 20 squadrons for ground attack(4600kg of arsenal/ with 60-120km+glide bombs, cluster bombs, smart bombs,antirunaway and GPS guided) , air superiority/airdefence( we know of 6AAM via pictures and 2+2+2 configuration via pictures+AESA in block 3) and maritime strike package available
this is same strategy that sweden employed via its gripen fighters and the predecessor fighters against russia
and long way to come
, China is building global like GPS and Golnass navigation system kid, and its for guiding Pakistani and Chinese missiles to precision
we have no DF-21 and DF-26 like missile we have coastal radars batteries and AWACS for you invincible and invisible to track CBG supersonic, hyper-sonic and subsonic anti ship cruise missile for your invisible CBG
most anti ship missiles has seeker of active radar guidness for what purpose?
