I'll be blunt. Way too many of you took DJ ISPR's words to heart. This is the same man that can't do a professional presser by the way. At best the surpise probably was going to be new ARFC assets (F3 and F5), some NASTP projects and mock ups, New AD and some stuff alluding to it.
Lol I do wonder if that projector display at that Yadgar-e-Fatah monument was the true surprise. Regardless, J-35 is genuine cope. PLAAF barely has 5 airframes, SAC's new factory is still under tooling, J-35A/AE haven't been operationalised yet and are still in LRIP. What makes you think PAF would get in a couple of months time. PAF truly takes their time in evaluating a platform before they go ahead with the induction. It took PAF 15 years after first evaluating J-10s before we actually got em.