I can't believe we have compromised mki fleet of 300 fighters . Compromised because east can't talk to West components.
Finally when will we learn we need western equipment and technology to.build a effective air power. Get in bed with Israelis now properly that means Israeli tactics attitude doctrine of how to fight out numbered and user pressure and win decisively.
Buying Russian junk with third world tactics won't cut it against either Pakistan or China
I believe communications equipment on the SU-30 is built by India and not Russia. India also uses some Israel communication systems. Much of the equipment on the MKI is already Western and Indian. Also what makes you think Western equipment is invisible? Hundreds of western aircraft have been shot down by Russian “Junk”. A few years back an Israeli F-16 was shot down. Over Yemen everything from Tornados, Apaches and Predator drones to Typhoons have been shot down. During Desert Storm 75 coalition aircraft were lost.
As for Indian tactics. They don’t use Russian tactics, the Indians have their own tactics which are reportedly very good. It’s not good underestimate your enemy but I would not overhype Pakistan or China. Pakistani F-16s were outmaneuvered by MiG-23s over Afghanistan. The MiG-23s were ordered not to shoot. In another incident a Pakistani F-16 was reportedly shot down by Soviet aircraft, later Pakistan claimed it was by friendly fire from another F-16. Pakistan did not challenge India during the Balokot stikes because Pakistan understood it would lose. Pakistan only challenged India when they caught India off guard and outnumbered. Pakistan’s are not as stupid as some people make them out to be, the PAF know that on equal footing they will lose to India thus the PAF doctrine is to use numerical superiority and surprise.
As for Pakistan, their F-16s and AIM-120s are deadly and the JF-17 is probably decent; however, Pakistani Pilots likely get very few flight hours due to limited budget thus they are not going to do favorably when an actual air war breaks out and India throws MKIs and Rafales at Pakistan. The other problem with Pakistani budget and less then professional structure is that Pakistan probably has a hard time maintaining operational readiness of F-16s and other aircraft.
On the 27th Pakistan threw 8 F-16s to challenge 2 MKIs. yet up north despite having F-16 squadrons they used ancient Mirage 5s and some JF-17s that could not do anything. In my assessment, Pakistan probably did this because they had very few operational F-16s that they were saving on standby Incase India escalated. In short the PAF, is an air force made up of mostly obsolete Mirages, a mix of outdated F-16s and some block52 F-16s, J-7s and cheap JF-17s. Most of the aircraft are not even airworthy.
