Yasser76
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Classic pic, love the worn used and dirty look on this bird for some reason.
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Classic pic, love the worn used and dirty look on this bird for some reason.
Yasser76
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The psycholgical hold this plane has had on the enemy since it was introduced still remains. Irrespective of us having J-10C and JF-17C, Indians always say "F-16" when making false claims of downed jets. They cannot get this plane out if their heads even after 40 years.
Ask a Pakistani about any Indian plane, he will not know what to say. As both Indians and Pakistanis to name a PAF jet, all of them will always answer F-16
Mohid Afzal
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1 thing I have always noticed is that, in their mind, neither the JF-17 nor J-10 pose any serious threat, to them they are and always will be junk jets from China like every other weapons. Now, I don't say for all Indians, just those who make wild claims about everything.
mdmm55
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Kindly provide following information for overseas Pakistani (no army background).
Q-1. Recently USA announced to upgrade Pakistani F-16 jet fighters, under Block 52. When will be this upgrade done ?
Q-2 Will those upgraded (?) F-16 equal to F-16 block 72 and or equal to 4.5 Generation jet fighters ?
Q-3. Will PAF be able to use those against India ? . Why PAF is deeple interested in F-16 jet fighters ?
Q-1. Recently USA announced to upgrade Pakistani F-16 jet fighters, under Block 52. When will be this upgrade done ?
Q-2 Will those upgraded (?) F-16 equal to F-16 block 72 and or equal to 4.5 Generation jet fighters ?
Q-3. Will PAF be able to use those against India ? . Why PAF is deeple interested in F-16 jet fighters ?
Oscar
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You can always check perplexity as well for such answers.
1. No clear timeline exists - similar upgrades in the past for European clients took 2 years.
2. No, this is purely a communication, interoperability and foundational upgrade.
3. This answer has been proven in Feb 2019.
hasssanali8998
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Gripen9
Trusted Member
In aeromodelling parlance it is called "weathered" look
MirageV3ff
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Starlord
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We don't even have the F-16V or Block 72's and still Indians get nightmares with our just 18 block 52's and rest older blocks, imagine if we had around 100-150 F-16V's.
Yasser76
Elite Member
To be honest, for their population most will not care about variants or numbers, the very term "F-16" has been ingrained to send fear, envy and anger in them. No other weapon systems seems to have had this effect, unsure why but my guess is when it was introduced in the 80s Indian press (it was more sane and logical back then) reported it accurately as being the best combat aircraft in South Asia and tilting the air balance in Pak's favour. That really shook the Indians.
Of course after that was the war record against the Soviets/Afghans then much later 2019. The Pakistan public took the plane to it's heart (as we saw in truck painting, kids toys etc)
All in all, it obtained almost mythical status, hence why both in 2019 and 2025 when Indians were making false claims on downed PAF jets, Mirages, JF-17s, J-10Cs are never mentioned, for them it HAS to be F-16 in order to lift some sort of curse off them...
CSAW
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Indians are constantly maintaining on media that PAF lost F-16s in hangar hit in May 2025 skirmish as part of their constant endeavor to get over the F-16 mind block of 4 decades
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Dino van Doorn
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F-16's in Turkey for the exercise Anatolian Eagle
