paritosh
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I think in real combat we just do not know enough cause the F22 loses in wvr arena even from a T38. Certainly from a f16. When we see the whole system then the F22 is huge and expensive. You need sats, costly maintenance and surely numbers. I think the dominance by F22 is a bit far fetched. A nuclear nation will not accept that dominance and sofar the latest US planes could only achieve dominance after years of manipulation and degradation of the opponent (politicially, economically and technically). Nations like India and Pakistan are not suspectible to that. Nation like Russia and China are far above that level. So the dominance will be for the third world which hardly can achieve a decent airforce.
India is gradually moving from Mig21 era to more regional force. The problem is that the nation that surround it are not very happy with that. The plus is that India needs to import superiority and that leads to more and more problems. I do not mean that India has no workforce or intellectuals. The contrary is true. The produce very big and impressive numbers of well educated people. But in the field of defence or military equipment they are more basic then nations like China and Pakistan. The fact remains... Israel and South Africa showed. North Korea and Iran do the same... If you are treated like a paria you will have better results then a nation that gets all the support. India gets help from every nation (greed based) but is can not succeed in making Arjun/LCA etc. Why? It has the luxary of able to buy it. Same happens with arabs. They are filled with cash and hardly have achieven anything else then that. UAE shifted to real estate but that is pretty a dead end. Arab nations import everything and sofar exported wordl class items like Osama. They have no democarcy and the top is as corrupt as possible. They cannot threat Israel (not personally supported cause we should accept it as a nation) nor are they able to work as a team or decrease poverty under muslims. I think the pride of being a fellow muslim decreases when you are able to visit an arab nation...
Ok, let us return to the topic. Both India and Pakistan are not easy targets. Even outdated equipment in these hands is impressive. They both have pretty strong national feelings. They both posses power (in anyway) to get what they want. If that means totally boycot then they accept it as a fate. At the moment they are showing that while they both were third world almost 2 decades ago they now posses military power to be threat to 99% of the world. Only a few nations are able to stop them and then it will not mean a walk in the park. Adding to that is that they both are responsible nations. They have fought a few wars but they handled it much better then other developed nations. They never conquered other continents nor are a threat to others.
i like your post...just that...i fail to understand why you claim the pakistani indigenous weapon programs to be better than the indian ones..?
we are actually hijacking this thread...but i hope that we can sensibly put our doubts to rest.
you claim that India "imports it's superiority"
most of our imports have a significant indigenous input to them...like the SU-30 Mki...it is a lot different from the other Su-30s...
the LCA is not a failure...it flies...money is being invested and advanced prototypes are in order...it has completed more than a thousand flying hours...none has crashed..weapon testing is done...
we have gained enough experience for the MCA program...which has transformed from a fanboy's rumor to a reality...
and the Jf-17 is a chinese plane...made to fit the PAf description...i asked people here quite a while back...in some different thread to prove me otherwise...i got no real reply..
Al-Khalid or MBT-2000 has been made with the Chinese assistance...
a good counter to my claims would be Brahmos...but i really can point out the indian and the russian input in the development of the Brahmos...
and believe me...we have the money now to field the best of both the east and the west...while invest in improving our domestic tech through hierarchical indigenous programs and ToT from other programs.
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