Fighting Falcon 01
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All you guys have for now is meteor astra is not going to be ready for a long time. We have heard that before Tejas MK 2 Astra MK 2 yet we didn't even see a working prototype and you bragging it can counter PL 15 lol what makes you think India can make a PL 15 missile counter in a year and Indians don't have much experience in developing air to air missiles except Astra . You need to get out of this thinking or you'll get a butt whooping soon. HAL will make vedic missiles which will have Chinese running for their lives both Astra and tejas MK 2 will not be ready by 2050 and MK 1A is far yet Indians bragging about it too by the Time Indians induct it it'll be too old.JF-17 BLK1/2/3 doesn't have any impact on strategic or tactical balance of Air Force superiority India enjoys.
Indian Air Force is retiring a Mig-21 and inducting either a Su-30MKI or Tejas Mk1 or a Rafale in replacement... every single of these fighters are multitude more capable than a Mig-21 so even if there is no one on one replacements still this makes IAF much more capable.
India can source weapon systems from both West and Russia also Indian military industries are becoming more and more capable with passing time.
Against PL-15
India is/will deploy following options with similar or greater capabilities:
Meteor
R-27
Astra Mk2
Astra SFDR
All these missile are around 150 or more in range.
Include Air Defense systems like
Barak-8
S-400
I don't think PL-15 deployed on a light fighter gives Paf any advantage over India even after that Paf is still dependent of few dozens of F-16 BLK50/52s for putting any kind of challenge..