Chinese military exports to other countries

Steven D said:

The 40 J-35AEs even became less of a shock, what a twist.

The key problem here is exactly how many HQ-19 systems will be sold. Is it only going to be a few systems that only used to defend Islamabad, or there will be surfficient number of system that will defend most of Pakisiani strategic military and economy facilities that would completely alter the Indian-Pakistani nuclear balance.

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Steven D said:

The 40 J-35AEs even became less of a shock, what a twist.

The key problem here is exactly how many HQ-19 systems will be sold. Is it only going to be a few systems that only used to defend Islamabad, or there will be surfficient number of system that will defend most of Pakisiani strategic military and economy facilities that would completely alter the Indian-Pakistani nuclear balance.

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sf7pakistan said:

Pakistan is long and thin, attractive qualities for a woman but not for a country. We'd need something like 3 to 5 batteries minimum if they're going to go with extra launchers and 5 to 7 batteries if they're going to go with a standard battery size. Plus the mountains in the north make things that much more difficult.

But why HQ-19? I may be wrong but ballistic missiles are not that big of a threat to Pakistan, or maybe they are now. Why not focus on more air defence systems than going for BMD?

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Steven D said:

The 40 J-35AEs even became less of a shock, what a twist.

The key problem here is exactly how many HQ-19 systems will be sold. Is it only going to be a few systems that only used to defend Islamabad, or there will be surfficient number of system that will defend most of Pakisiani strategic military and economy facilities that would completely alter the Indian-Pakistani nuclear balance.

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Steven D said:

Also to fully utilize such a system would in no doubt need Chinese satellite, ground and aerial surveillance system. If we get a bit more imaginative, there may even be a secret promise to intercept nuclear missiles launched from India to China at boost stage and even a Chinese led equivalent of NORAD. Now that would be way way beyond the scope of Pakistani-Indian comflict.

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sf7pakistan said:

I like where you're going with this and this most likely sounds like the best explanation for all this. Man I just hope our AD is in good shape because they had a less than stellar showing on 10th May.

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sf7pakistan said:

I like where you're going with this and this most likely sounds like the best explanation for all this. Man I just hope our AD is in good shape because they had a less than stellar showing on 10th May.

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Rafi said:

don’t believe the Indians our AD did in fact do well, the missiles that got through was due to the simple fact of volume. The vast majority of them were taken down.

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broadsword said:

But was it true that the HQ-9s were jammed?

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Rafi said:

don’t believe the Indians our AD did in fact do well, the missiles that got through was due to the simple fact of volume. The vast majority of them were taken down.

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sf7pakistan said:

I'm not sourcing the Indians on this. Either we were being too cautious or for some other reason the HQ-9 did let a lot of damage happen that day. It is not a bad system but we need a lot more of it since India now knows that our AD is our weakness. Next time around the missile volley would be at minimum twice the size we had to face this time around, plus the threat of drones, SEAD and what not.

More HQ-9 batteries would help a lot. I'd even go as for as to say that we might need something like 2x the current size of wholly integrated HQ-9 batteries along with other medium and short range systems. HQ-19 if coming is not an unwelcome capability but in my opinion HQ-9 is quite a lot more necessary. Pakistan needs some ToT or some other arrangement to better develop HQ-9 for her own needs.

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