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We will see who’s proven right. Right now, you will have to be content with 20 J-10CEs. Barely a squadron.
Hindustanis were in shock that Pakistan acquired J-10Cs when it did. They wondered how on Earth Pakistan managed to buy such an advance fighter aircraft when the country was supposed to be bankrupt.
 
1. The Pakistan Army's procurement methods are not peculiar and it continues to follow basic rules. The Chinese military operates on a completely different model from that of the West. China, in turn, is the main supplier of military equipment to Pakistan, which results in Pakistan's military procurement being slightly different from that of Western countries. But it still follows the traditional pattern.
The J-10CE did not come out of nowhere. In fact, PAF started approaching CAC for procurement of J-10 series fighters many years ago.

2, J-10CE is a 4th Gen fighter, its maintenance is not much different from JF-17. But 5th Gen fighters are totally different. the J-35 needs dedicated hangar parking.

3, 5th Gen fighter is an information node of the modern combat system, advanced command system is the nerve center, high-speed data chain is the connecting line. Leaving the data chain and command system of the 5th Gen fighter, its combat effectiveness is far lower than the 4th Gen fighter.
Of course, these infrastructures don't usually get much official press. As a result, it's hard to know what level of capability the PAF is at right now in this area.
“A-fire B-guidance” is an important signature capability of the high-speed bi-directional data link for operational use. We know that the J-10C+PL-15 combination has this capability. However, PAF has not yet demonstrated this capability with the J-10CE+PL-15E combination. Some sources suggest that the JF-17B3 also has this capability, but we have not seen PAF actually demonstrate this capability either.
“A-fire B-guidance”. The “A” here is the fighter, and the wider the range of the “B” here, the wider the use of the high-speed two-way data link, and the greater the capability of the advanced command system.

4. Many of the tactical capabilities demonstrated by PLAAF's J-10C are not demonstrated by PAF's J-10CE. I'm not sure if this is an adjustment PAF made when customizing the J-10CE? Or PAF's current base platform is difficult to support? Anyway, we need to see further. With what PAF has shown so far, PAF is currently only just entering the threshold of the 4th Gen fighter platform, and there is still a long way to go with the 4.5th Gen fighter platform.
At this stage of PAF, the 5th Gen fighter platform is still just a dream. Even if PAF gets the J-35 right away, it can only use it as a 4th Gen fighter and cannot utilize the capabilities of the J-35.
It's like, I bought a HUAWEI Mate XT phone and took it to Balochistan, Pakistan to use it. What do you think I can do with this state of the art phone?

Well if the pilots are trained and jet is heading towards serial production. Infrastructure is also being worked on. We'd wait and see.
 
These documents were not published by your govt. they were leaked by R&AW associated hackers in 2021 itself.
And why did RAW needed to hack and release this super secret document when the Information Minister Shaikh Rashid was spoke about it openly to the media?
 
Hindustanis were in shock that Pakistan acquired J-10Cs when it did. They wondered how on Earth Pakistan managed to buy such an advance fighter aircraft when the country was supposed to be bankrupt.

They are still crying. Day in day out.

Cash-strapped Pakistan buying Chinese 5th-gen jets will only enhance insecurity in South Asia


- Indian acquisitions will bring prosperity for South Asia.
- Pakistani acquisitions will bring instability.

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to be fair JF17 Block 3 and J10C are good

but J35 is a 5th generation fighter so we need it

I don't think we should join Turkish Kaan
 
I my personal view J-35 are not mature platform and also we need infrastructure for the fifth generation fighters. China should first induct these fighters and with iterative improvements can have better platform. Pakistan can get delivery of in 2030s.
 
When is delivery of 1st batch and how many jets?
no confirmation when they will come and how many they come but in my best guesstimate they will come in 2028-2030 time-frame and how many nobody knows but less than squadron I think most probable guess
 

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