What's keeping PAF at bay for having complete communication between eastern and western platforms?
If we look at immediate neighbor, they are are and will data link russian assets with western ones. So if ZDK-03 having western COTS communication gear, i'm still unable to comprehend what's blocking it's way to communicate directly with F-16 rather communicating with F-16 through ground station.
It has to do with communication protocol..
Previously we intended to do protocol conversion on the ground.. Now we designed our own.. that is compatible with Link-16.