On 26th feb PAF's second to god stature took a humble beating as iaf mirages ventured into paki's territory nd bombed that terrorist camp.. they were left red faced... As iaf mirages not only crossed into their border but also operated with impunity.. paf was a no show that night... However to avenge it.. nd to redeem their tarnished image..
PAF on 27th feb threw kitchen sink.. they constituted a large strike force of whatever they had in their armament..
they knew this very well.. that they need a large strike force to nullify IAF's larger force.
So for them it worked very well.. as dogfight is fast nd quick & u will only get a window of opportunity to surprise ur adversary..
Now with a larger force they achieved the tactical advantage at that sector.. their f-16 launched their amraam's at dmax hoping to get a mki kill.. but it failed.. however one mig21 ambushed their f-16 .. took a kill nd was downed in that effort.
Paf have two prime aircraft F-16 nd JF-17.. now these two aircrafts main radars were operating in war frequencies on 27th feb dogfight.. indian ew nd sniffers would be certainly listening to each frequencies.. thus making a library of those frequencies..
F-16 nd Jf-17 has a pulse Doppler radar sans advantage of frequency hoping of an aesa radar.. making them highly susceptible for jamming in a future conflict..
With inclusion of rafale, s-400 & mrsam..iaf capabilities will get a quantam leap.. while air defence on paki side is shabby with only ly-80 (40km range) at their disposal..
So what will be the implications of 26-27feb events in a future conflict (limited airwar) which seems imminent.. with time being only variable.. let's assume a scenario in somewhere around 2022.. where another terrorist attack on indian soil.. makes indian govt to launch an offensive..
This time iaf will strike with belligerence.. nd will leave nothing for speculations.. rafales nd mirages will strike deep into pak hinterland.. paf again will be left with egg on the face.. rearing to take revenge nd emulate 27th feb.. however this time paf would hv to scale a kamikaze style ops as S-400 will rafales will make sure the attacking paf pilots meet their maker
In this decade IAF strength vis a vis PAF will rise exponentially.. with planned induction & upgrades of super sukhoi, 36rafale, 83tejas m1A, mmrca2.0(rafale4.0), MWF, AMCA, S-400, XR-SAM.. .. while PAF will a no show a la pak navy against indian navy...
PAF only have 76 f-16 nd 100 jf-17.. (with 50 block 3 coming) at tip of it's spear.. all these are non aesa low specs (f-16 being as old as our mirages).. only 50 jf17 block 3 will provide them an aesa based fighter.. albiet a low specs one.. while it will face IAF's 500+ aesa enabled nd High specs fighters aircrafts...
So this is my analysis on IAF vs PAF in this decade.. kindly discuss nd add valuble inputs on it..
Thanks & Regards.