hj786
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At the risk of being accused of advocating buying American because I am an American, I do not think that buying the Rafale would be a wise decision. Not because the Rafale is a bad design but because Pakistan has to consider the familiarity factor, meaning that how long has Pakistan been flying the F-16? How comfortable are Pakistani pilots with the F-16? Every new aircraft design will have different flight characteristics and exhibit new behaviors that will require pilots to adjust. Will the new aircraft offer new capabilities and improve upon current ones to justify the changes. What about maintenance? Can the ground crews adapt to the new aircrafts in terms of ease of maintenance? These are not trivial matters and once the money spent, Pakistan cannot ask for refunds.
So in your opinion, after considering Rafale's reduced RCS, canard-delta layout, Spectra EW suite, phased array radar and the MBDA Meteor, PAF is better off with buying more F-16?
Any proof of that?even Chinese J10 crashed
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