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There can be 2 possibilities, one zdk-03 was seen in satellite images during operations, maybe their retirement was a ruse to obfuscate capabilities until needed. Or the other possibility which I think is more likely is that they were able to integrate Chinese radars like JY-27 and HQ-9 search and fire control radar into a fused air picture and used Chinese data link from ground station (C4 centers) to provide updates to PL-15 either directly or via UAV relay. Maybe that's why IAF went after C4 infrastructure at Nur Khan and Murid airbases. Also, what supports this possibility is that PAF wasn't effective later on as IAF conducted SEAD thus degrading their air picture even though their AEW&Cs would still be on station.Look mate
Our awacs can share real time data and location of enemy aircraft but guiding it depends on missiles capability
Definitely pl-15 has that capability but the point is they need chinese datalink bcoz link-16 cannot be integrated with chinese platforms coz that would risk a lot of data and systems critical info under nato
The reason pakistani fired and went back not bcoz their awacs was providing relay to pl-15 but that's their strategy like what they did during swift retort baiting the aircraft to their air defence zones and then shoot it down or other aircrafts waiting for it
We fired bvr or not and why was it fired is a different topic coz we had to follow RoE laid by the govt
And mostly the awacs which was on the air was saab not chinese making it sure that awacs wasn't guiding the missile
And moreover it's and active guided missile
Re guiding an Active Radar seeker BVR missile, they need mid course guidance to be effective at long ranges until they go pitbull. Even PL15 ku band AESA seeker, has a seeker cone of around 6 degree and can only see targets in around 6-8 km deviation from last known target update when they go active at about 15-20 km from target. I think getting a hit at 150km+ with just initial INS is pretty much impossible for fighter targets.