IAF Capabilities vs PAF Power

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@Raindance

No Addition and no deletion. Ref - Defence of Pakistan
True balance trial of PAF in comparison to IAF.

Raindance work on your reading skills. This is not a comparison but as the titles suggest it is about analysis of PAF. Anyway, what gain you could expect after posting this one all it says is that Pak never had an Air Force to attack India nor it will ever have. All they have ever done and will be doing is to plan to defend! I can tell you IAF believes the contrary - The best way to defend is to attack! It is nice article but I have some reservations and I am highlighting them.

@Raindance

Pakistan Air Force (PAF) now compromises around 330 combat aircrafts

I mentioned in my previous article that Pak has 481 Combat Aircrafts but you copy pasted an old article which says PAF has 330. Trust me, my evaluation is better than his!

@Raindance

The PAF is in no position to do other than make any opponent think long and hard before attacking. The IAF outnumbers it in uniformed personnel by some 4:1, and the ratio is high when it comes to modern, latest technology aircrafts of which the Indian Sukhoi Su-30MKI Flanker and Dassault Mirage 2000H have deeper penetration capabilities. The IAF is also bless with larger reserves, a greater beyond visual range (BVR) capacity, a larger inventory of specialist weapons, and unchallenged strategic reconnaissance capability, more surface-to-surface missiles, more potent terminal defenses, up to three times as many attack helicopters, a much superior air lift capability, satellite facilities and stealth technology.

Bingo!

@Raindance

That said, the Pakistan media took it for granted that of course ‘Blue’ forces will have the quality and training edge over the ‘Fox’ forces, plus the vision and the planning capacities of the PAF leadership will serve as a booster..A PAF F-16s and Mirage 5s are not as potent as their IAF Mikoyan MIG-27M Flogger, Mirage 2000H and Su-30MKI equivalents..

First Paki to admit. At last my efforts weren’t futile. It is** every Paki’s habit to first deny and then accept!(pun intended)**

@Raindance

unreliability of many of its MiGs has led to an appalling rate of flying accidents

some of Pakistan’s aircraft (Nanchang A-5) are even worse than that. Except 10 JF-17 and 44 F-16A/B none of your aircrafts are more capable than MIG-21. To prove my point excerpts from your article: -“The F-7 is the Mig-21 Fishbed built under Chinese licensed manufacture”

@Raindance

Pakistan now operates more Mirages (in excellent condition) than the French Air Force.

There is no point to boast this. I have already mentioned** how superannuated it is**. (The author totally disregards the fact that it is not the condition but the technology that matters.). For your information I am posting it again : -
Miarge III/V
Comparable aircraft

• Chengdu J-7
• F-102 Delta Dagger
• F-106 Delta Dart
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (LOL)
• Saab 35 Draken
• Sukhoi Su-9
• Sukhoi Su-11

@Raindance

The PAF would like to equip three to five squadrons and initial indications were that Pakistan had plans to buy 79 F-16s from Lockheed Martin

I heard on some other forum that this tender has been decreased to 18 aircraft and if possible another 18 in the future. (I mentioned it there in my evaluation). Before you reply to this post just read my full reply!

@Raindance

For nearly 60 years it has had to safeguard national airspace and deter as much more powerful India, a task made all the more arduous by the recent embargo on acquiring the latest technology.

LOL, article again says the two Air Forces are not even close to comparison by declaring IAF to be more powerful.

@Raindance

During the period of sanctions, Pakistan felt sidelined as its Indian neighbor received more advanced combat aircrafts, plus new capabilities such as airborne early warning and control aircraft, air-to-air refueling, balloon-borne surveillance radars, real-time reconnaissance through unmanned air vehicles, beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air weapons, and frequency-hopping and secure radio communications.

You were sanctioned in 98 and the sanction was lifted as soon as the war on terror started and the **author tried to prove **that all these years your country has been under sanctions. India had this prob being sanctioned from 74 to 98 straight.

@Raindance

ageing Mirages were over 30 years old and the PAF was facing problems in acquiring spares because Dessault had stopped production of some components. However, Pakistan could not ground these aircraft because they formed part of the nuclear deterrent.

Ha ha!

@Raindance

The Indian Air Force has its weakness, its spread of Russian and Western aircraft makes for a logistic nightmare!

The author is hilarious as what is a sure plus point he marked it as a drawback! We have aircraft from all countries (except US) and we get to know the best parts in each one of them and apply it to make a deadlier plane. I must tell you about SU-30MKI, it is Russian plane with Israeli avionics and is better than all other Flankers.

@Raindance

That said, the arrival of BAE Systems Hawk trainers will revolutionize the IAF flying training system and Washington has balance its military sales to Pakistan by allowing Lockheed Martin and Boeing to offer the F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet as candidates for the IAF’s multi-role programme. The Bush administration has also stated that it will support Indian requests for other ‘transformative system in areas such as command and control, early warning and missile defense’. This means that even when new F-16s arrive in PAF service there may still be the same relative capability gap with India.

T**hough the author makes it again clear that even after the purchase of F-16s Pak will be still a lot behind India, **he surely knows a little about IAF. He hasn’t mentioned the procurement of *150 more Su-30MKIs (by 2014), 220 aircraft HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft (starting from 2011)and two fifth generation fighters viz., FGFA (200 in numbers) (first flight expected 2011) and MCA (efforts will be put from 2011 onwards).
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@Raindance

In summary, the PAF may not have enough state-of-the-art equipment but for its budget and the size of its organization.

LOL

@Raindance

It is an operationally ready and professional air force.

In essence, this is what your author has proved. We never even expected India vs Pak to be like Israel vs Palestine. I guess your country has the best military among all Muslim countries but the comparison is with India. You article is distracting from the case in hand!

We are back to square one! For how long PAF will thwart a much superior AIR FORCE of India! Every Paki who wishes to reply must read the last three pages, it is very cumbersome to reply to the same questions again and again! Enthusiasm