The Kashmir conflict 2025.

siegecrossbow

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With fibre optic FPV even drone gun is not gonna cut it. The best solution right now is to stick a North Korean soldier on the turret as meat CIWS.

Joke aside I hope PA is ready for drone warfare

I think he is talking about high powered microwaves, which will fry electronics directly so even fiber optic fpvs will still die. The main issue is that the range is very short for a bulky, expensive system.
 

reservior dogs

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if J-10C is good enough to deter all fighter jets in current IAF arsenal, there's no reason for PAF to get any other model of fighters. unless India managed to get F-35 or EF-2000.
Of course there are reasons.

First, the Pakistani Air Force is a smaller force compared to their Indian counterparts. In a longer war of attrition, if it comes to that, you always want a bigger advantage to minimize your losses.

Second, their sponsors, the other Gulf States, are keenly interested in how the J-35 would fare against other aircrafts. They would want a PAF to be equipped with J-35 so the trail could be blazed for them to own it later.

Finally, it is not just air to air. In some cases, you want a stealth plane to attack fixed installations deep inside India, or to attack AWACs and tankers.
 

Randomuser

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Engineering and warfare tend to be heavily correlated. Empires and wide nations at their peak historically was when they were strong at engineering for many cases. Rome is a prime example.

So what we are seeing is a demonstration of China engineering prowess. China always had strong engineering background although some moronic rulers like late Qing ones thought it would be better to use this on excessive palaces instead.
 

gullible

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Macron gonna send you an honorary invite to the Élysée Palace for you to give a lecture expanding this view. Your powerpoint is to be titled, "Indian Incompetence, NOT French Mis-Engineering." Hope you like French food; Xi and his wife sure don't.

$100M?? Nahh, the price for wanting to fly advanced aircraft without the competence to develop them is much higher than that. Those 36 Rafales were purchased for 7.9B Euros, so basically $250M each. The next 26 are basically $290M each.
perhaps the french should tell the iaf to buy insurance against every loss of rafale?
 
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