You want to talk about fighter aircraft development timelines and import reliance while sitting in a glass house built on foreign loans? Let's talk actual facts: Pervez Musharraf was in Beijing begging China for the J-10 back in 2006 and your air force had to sit outside Beijing’s waiting room for over 15 full years before inducting the J-10CE in 2022. You couldn't even procure an off the shelf single engine fighter without waiting a decade and a half for Chinese financial credit lines to cover the bill.
And let’s not pretend you forgot the absolute, unmitigated nightmare your entire military establishment went through during Operation Sindoor. Indian precision stand-off munitions penetrated your air defense network bypassing your HQ-9P SAM missile batteries and long range surveillance radars decimated C4i of airbases like Nur Khan and Murid, turned Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba command infrastructure in Muridke and Bahawalpur into rubble and exposed your air defense architecture as paper thin. That tactical thrashing shook your GHQ so hard it forced an emergency, panic induced strategic reset across your entire defense command.
Look at the reality now: your defense planners are frantically begging Beijing to fast track 5th gen J-35 stealth fighters and desperately scrambling to assemble a dedicated Rocket Force Command just to re-establish a basic conventional deterrent after getting thoroughly outplayed.
So who’s really the one begging and coping here? Sit down, shut up and don't embarrass yourself further.