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[rafale]

Same way F-16 turned PAF from a South Asian version of the RAF into a modern air force, watch how J-35 turns us into a top 10 tier air force. I mean it, we will be in the top 10 in terms of training, experiance, integration and finally equipment.

You will be looking at a force that can defend against 5th Gen attack and will have regional strike capabilities. PAF will go from a local air force to a regional one, capabilities the IAF will simply not have.

Both these two events, F-16 in early 80s and J-35 soon will put us in seperate leagues to our neighbours

One problem I see with PAF getting the J-35 is that it will provide the Chinese same leverage as the Americans had over F-16s.

Cripple this crucial technology/system by sanctions or not providing support, and you take out the spear from Pakistan.

For example, what if Pakistan decides to use J-35 to bomb India at will? Using its LO features, Pakistan can unilaterally take strike missions. Take out S-400 preemptively and thereby starting a war. Would China want that?

India pulled off operation sindoor out of its ass. There was and is no evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the terrorist attack. That damaged their credibility and improved Pakistan's credibility. If that case was to be again, China by all means will fully support Pakistan.

But if Pakistan starts using Latest Chinese tech and causing regional imbalance, then China may not be too pleased.

Regardless of how obsolete or weak Israeli enemies are, Israel still runs each and every campaign in undertakes in the region through US. Without US blessing, they are nothing.

Which is why i believe Pakistan is taking its time to finalize the J-35/KJ500/HQ19 package......and also keeping other options open, like Turkish AD and KAAN. In that case, Turkey wouldn't give two shits about India.

This is a big problem.

 

[Ali_Baba]

One problem I see with PAF getting the J-35 is that it will provide the Chinese same leverage as the Americans had over F-16s.

Cripple this crucial technology/system by sanctions or not providing support, and you take out the spear from Pakistan.

For example, what if Pakistan decides to use J-35 to bomb India at will? Using its LO features, Pakistan can unilaterally take strike missions. Take out S-400 preemptively and thereby starting a war. Would China want that?

India pulled off operation sindoor out of its ass. There was and is no evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the terrorist attack. That damaged their credibility and improved Pakistan's credibility. If that case was to be again, China by all means will fully support Pakistan.

But if Pakistan starts using Latest Chinese tech and causing regional imbalance, then China may not be too pleased.

Regardless of how obsolete or weak Israeli enemies are, Israel still runs each and every campaign in undertakes in the region through US. Without US blessing, they are nothing.

Which is why i believe Pakistan is taking its time to finalize the J-35/KJ500/HQ19 package......and also keeping other options open, like Turkish AD and KAAN. In that case, Turkey wouldn't give two shits about India.

This is a big problem.

Every platform will have the limitation that the selling country can impose conditions and restrictions. Even Türkiye! That is a reality that Pakistan has lived with and will have to live with new procurements until it can fix its education and manufacturing, R&D capabilities to be able to build its own platforms at own.

 

[Corax]

One problem I see with PAF getting the J-35 is that it will provide the Chinese same leverage as the Americans had over F-16s.

Cripple this crucial technology/system by sanctions or not providing support, and you take out the spear from Pakistan.

For example, what if Pakistan decides to use J-35 to bomb India at will? Using its LO features, Pakistan can unilaterally take strike missions. Take out S-400 preemptively and thereby starting a war. Would China want that?

India pulled off operation sindoor out of its ass. There was and is no evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the terrorist attack. That damaged their credibility and improved Pakistan's credibility. If that case was to be again, China by all means will fully support Pakistan.

But if Pakistan starts using Latest Chinese tech and causing regional imbalance, then China may not be too pleased.

Regardless of how obsolete or weak Israeli enemies are, Israel still runs each and every campaign in undertakes in the region through US. Without US blessing, they are nothing.

Which is why i believe Pakistan is taking its time to finalize the J-35/KJ500/HQ19 package......and also keeping other options open, like Turkish AD and KAAN. In that case, Turkey wouldn't give two shits about India.

This is a big problem.

Why would the Chinese object to the PAF bombing india? If anything, they'd probably welcome it.

Aside from that, unless we can develop everything we want ourselves, we'll always have to make compromises to access technology and capabilities that we need, it's that simple. Back in the 80s, we paid a heavy price to access the Viper, and even then we didn't even get BVR. When it came to Block 52s, we again had to compromise with US oversight, and if my memory serves me correctly, we didn't even get something like DRFM capability.

We get better access to high tech capabilities with the Chinese, but there's still compromises to be made, although arguably less so than the US, and at least no sanctions like those the US imposed.

So it's either make compromises to gain access to the tech and capabilities we need, or make the stuff ourselves, and I ain't holding out on the latter option anytime soon.