Pakistan to buy $1bn of Attack helicopters, missiles from USA

[Nikema]

Re: Pakistan to buy $1bn of Attack helicopters, missiles from USA

As I said in other thread that even though Pak should not get involved in this conflict but there are things to gain for Pak in it now.

@Nikema

I saw that coming.

Most of saudi military hardware is from US. I was sure that US will not allow Pak military personals get into the cockpit of its F15 and Eurofighter(UK) or its modern attack helicopters or submarines etc. The risk for them is too big for a Pak Pilots to get to know the plane and transferring on the knowledge to the Chinese who are masters are reverse engineering.

For the record - I am absolutely not a fan of Pak joining this war ‘to defend the holy land’. Now that we are in it we have to see how can Pak get the best out of it, i.e in addition to pleasing the al sauds masters.

Pak should go in with all of its battle gear including its air force, warplanes and even its submarines and take a lead in the offensive from sea, air and land to get good battle experience for its army, air force and navy. Pak has not been in an all out war since 71 and a major conflict beside Kashmir border skirmishes around kargil and in 2002 but even they could not have provided an opportunities as good as this one to test its military and provide the real war like experience.

PAF could do with building a profile for its JF17 and instead of going to the war with its fleet of F16 they should go in with JF17 for following reasons.

• It will provide JF17 an opportunity to show off its operational capabilities and can provide very valuable data back to Pak/China which can be used it improving future variants of the plane.

• Hopefully performance of the JF17 will attract some buyers from third world countries that can not afford more expensive toys and this will bring much needed $$ to Pak and will be a good sign for RD of different weaponry systems.

• Using JF17 will also result in PAF’s keeping F16’s fresh and not put too many miles of their aging bodies. Still a big number of our F16’s are early generation ones and they have had much needed midlife upgrades (MLU) but it would still be a better idea to not to out many miles on those old frames.