J-10 Thread IV
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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When will people realize one weapon alone isn't any wunderwaffe. Reason Pakistan did well because they have C4ISR in place.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
We gotta be selective on who to sell too. Just like what happened to the Rafale, if we sold it to an incompetent country, they could get it shot down by an Israeli F-16 or something.
J 10C is a top notch weapon system and PAF pilots are also best in class.... fully capable of using J10C to its max potential...
Give this weapon system in incapable hands would just result in the same fate as Rafale and bad repute
Most countries are not in active war zone. For instance Uzbekistan.
Yes, but to have C4ISR, paying ~50(75 for package) v ~130(280 for package) sort of helps.
And this isn't even an affordable fighter, JF-17 is(~30...55-60).
India right now basically pays bitterly for rafale deal - and without defense spending increase, they rafaled themselves out of option to do more sensible improvements.
Then that’s even worse. It proves that the Chinese emphasis on OODA 2.0 and 3.0 is a wunderwaffe in aerial combat. Imagine that coupled with CHAD and Uncle Fagin…
Even buying the C4ISR needed - or even just the Chinese AWACS, is still much cheaper than the Rafale fleet.
People nowadays don’t know how hard it was for CAC engineers back then. All worth it, turns out.
