Raj-Hindustani
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- May 4, 2019
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If you have two stealth fighters fight each other - it ends up being a WVR knife fight with equal losses based on pilot quality, as BVR doesnt work well in that scenario. DSI/IRST may make some difference, but it is difficult to guide missiles at long ranges guided by them ?
FC-31 is "more real" that the made up Su-75 which only exists in plastic form! At least the FC-31 prototype is flying and China maybe is getting closer to the -35 variant for its aircraft carriers.
PAF will of course do well to wait for the PLAN to induct the J-35 before it commits to the platform. It does not want to find itself in the same scenario as the FC-1 programme, where China was going to purchase an equal number of FC-1s as Pakistan, before pulling out and leaving PAF to deal with the programme alone ...
that was my point - still under developing but people have started claiming