Chinese SAC - FC-31/J-35 5th Gen Stealth Aircraft

[ChillVein]

500+ J20
450+ J16
50+ J35
100+ J11BG
260+J10C,
400+ J11B&Su30& J11A
400+ J10A&B
150+ J15
24 Su35

 

[Yasser76]

500+ J20
450+ J16
50+ J35
100+ J11BG
260+J10C,
400+ J11B&Su30& J11A
400+ J10A&B
150+ J15
24 Su35

Yeah man, you would think they could throw a few jets PAF's way heh!?

 

[niubi]

Yeah man, you would think they could throw a few jets PAF's way heh!?

PAF at most has to contend with IAF and bring enough capability to make wide scale Indian aggression too expensive to consider.

PLAAF is aiming to equal US + regional allies.

India is not 1% the strength of US + regional allies. PLAAF's Western Theatre Command on its own can defeat IAF with exchange rates that will rival Desert Storm exchange rates. IAF currently has a joke of a AWACS and networking capability with zero full domestic ecosystem. It's MKI is J-11B level and more poorly networked to the rest of the fleet compared to the J-11B with PLAAF. Mig-29s and Mirage 2000s are J-10A level. Rafale is J-10C/J-16 level. Weapons wise, PLAAF outrange them and are vastly more modern save for their French air to ground ordinance which equal PLAAF but PLAAF buy domestic and China manufactures thousands upon thousands in short span of time where India would exhaust entire stockpile within a week. Then J-20, UADFs and CCAs, GJ-11, J-35 on top, it's not a contest. These are all force multipliers. Better weapons, more weapons by miles, more modern weapons and tech, self manufacture as many as they please.

India vastly overestimates the capability of IAF and underestimate the capability of PLAAF.

To "throw a few jets PAF way" means slowing down the build up to equal US + regional allies overall numbers. Tech modernity and capability already equal or exceed at the top end but top end numbers are far smaller for now. India on the other hand has zero top end and barely has 32-34 mid tier in the form of Rafales and very few modern weapons (Meteor, Storm Shadow etc). PAF doesn't need much to effectively counter India. Getting more and better stuff than India will trigger anger and destabilising actions from India. No point. They basically just bs themselves and once in a while do something small and get smacked. That's what India is for the foreseeable future.

China is playing an entirely different game, at least two leagues ahead just on hardware without considering the baseline industry and manufacturing.

 

[Yasser76]

PAF at most has to contend with IAF and bring enough capability to make wide scale Indian aggression too expensive to consider.

PLAAF is aiming to equal US + regional allies.

India is not 1% the strength of US + regional allies. PLAAF's Western Theatre Command on its own can defeat IAF with exchange rates that will rival Desert Storm exchange rates.

India vastly overestimates the capability of IAF and underestimate the capability of PLAAF.

To "throw a few jets PAF way" means slowing down the build up to equal US + regional allies overall numbers. Tech modernity and capability already equal or exceed at the top end but the numbers are far smaller for now.

Pakistan's requirememts now go beyond India I would argue. For sure Pakistan has to think about the threats it faces too, I guess it just depends how quickly China can churn out these J-35s to keep PLAAF happy so Pakistan can then get some.

As every passing year goes by and with no new inductions, IAF becomes more and more obsolete and less and less of a threat, but this alone should not be a reason for PAF to stop mondernisation, as we are already still flying many old planes