military procurement mistakes by PAF

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Re: military procurement mistakes by PAF

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in your opinion what errors did PAF high command make in procuring jet fighters

for me

1-supermarine attacker ! worthless straight wing plane

Only lack of funds and strong British pressure persuaded the PAF to acquire the British Supermarine Attacker

2- Not buying Mirage F-1 when hopes for getting F-16 evaporated in late 80s
it not as good as 2000, but cheaper and definately a match for GCI-less mig-29 of IAF

Again almost the same story but french aircraft are and were expensive so still a good choice by PAF to stick with Mirage 3 and Mirage 5 and get second hand machines cheaply.Now these are BVR capable with ROSE upgrade.F-1 was just a successor of Mirage-3.

3-not setting up a mirage building factory in late 60s in cooperation with Iran when the shah offered it]

That was built eventually as Mirage Re-Bulid factory.

4-Buying F-104 , instead shud have bought F-100 super sabre , a grt plane not as fast as f-104 , but better range,payload and air combat capabilities

F-104 was an interceptor while F-86 was almost a multirole aircraft.F-100 would have served the same purpose as F-86.Two different classes of planes with different roles.Being a Mach-2 plane,it was definitely something new in subcontinent and gave PAF a psychological edge.

5-backing the afghan bandits in the 80s which resulted in very bad relations with USSR and hence no chance of getting mig-29/su-27 in post-cold war era

In mid-1994 it was reported that the Russian manufacturers Sukhoi and Mikoyan were offering the Su-27 and MiG-29 to Pakistan.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1994/1994%20-%201938.html?search=Pakistan%20F-7

PAF had chances of getting both SU-27 and Mig-29 from Ukraine and Poland but the deal couldnt conclude..PAF can still get SU-27 series through China and it has evaluated J-11 also.