MaXimMaRz
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250 JF17's, 36 J10's and some 90 Block52 can do the job easily... Protecting doesn't mean you need hundreds of airplanes... 50% will be airborne and even then we will have double view, add to that ground based radars and you will have something unhealthy for our opponent.
The Indians are making much noise about that they are now being to able to see through Pakistan... Well, They did that in the past pretty good. Pakistan is a flat area and it is easy to have some people watching something going up. We had problems with Indian depth. Now we can look 300-400 km inside India... We can see every troop movement. We can see every ship. We can see every plane... Certainly the huge RCS of the MKI...
I am Pretty Shocked to hear that you carry this impression in mind that an airforce will keep 50% of its asset in the air at the same time to defend its ground !! Although it leaves no room for explanation cuz it means u need to the basics of Air Power Asset Management ( NO Offense). But i will still try to explain a few things for your consumption in the simplest form.
1. No Air Power in the world Works on the Principle of Massing AC in air.
2. The Moment you Bring 50% or Make it 30 % of ur assest in air at the same time, you will not just loose your Offensive Posture but in the next 3 to 4 hours they re going to come and Cook your Geese there and then.
3. Defending Your Land (In Air WARFARE senario) doesnt mean that you deploy AC all Along the border , Even Army dosent do that in a Conflict. You select Important Ingress routes of the enemy (ingress = Entry Points).
4. Then you calculate How much time you will get to intercept a perticular Strike , Now depending on that time You decide wether u gonna keep A pair of AC in Air At that point or you will keep them on ground and send them once u detect that threat.
5. Maintainable CAPS (combat air petrol ) in not a simple 2+2 = 4. There are some many variables involved like :
.. AC Endurance
.. The distance of the CAP point form its Ground station
.. The Height at which the AC is gonna operate ( mostly AC consumes more fuel at lower and higher altitude Brackets, Medium level is more fuel friendly.
.. The Speed an AC maintain during its patrolling (AC operating on foward locations have to be at there best combat speed all the time , those operating at retarded positions have the liberty to maintain cruse speed)
and there are many more factors .......
6. Its a Complicated combination of Calculations carried out for every minute of the war...!!!
7. AIRCRAFT ARE NOT SOLDIERS OR WAR HORSES THAT CAN BE DEALT SO EASILY
and as far as your flat area theory of yours is concerned I HOPE IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT I THINK IT MEANS...PLEASE EXPLAIN IT TO ME
NO offense , its just that u should know ...
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