Basel
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I'm talking purely of SEAD missions where the HARM was employed. Wild Weasel.
http://www.ausairpower.net/Analysis-ODS-EW.html
The Bahrain based 35th TFW flew 2,331 sorties for 8,587 hours, firing close to 1,000 HARMs and two dozen AGM-45 Shrikes.
DEAD is a whole 'nother game. No point in the PAF chasing it.
PAF does not have to cover the whole of India obviously, but the area of operations is still bigger than the area the US had to cover over Iraq. And let's not even begin to talk about the sophistication of SAMs since then. Can't defeat SAMs when the ARM is intercepted.
PAF have no intention going deep inside India until its extremely necessary and 5th gen bird with standoff munitions will be spear head against any Indian air defense.