In my opinion, why we r not forwarding in MRFA program:-
1:- we see pakistan real threat, who fought us 4 wars nd proxy wars regularly. In chinese case we r not seeing full scale war nd proxy wars...unless china is stupid enough to try to gulp ladhakh, arunanchal in nuclear bombs age..just like they did against tibbet.
2:- against pakistan we hv good 4 nd 4.5 genration fighters number. if we remove 3 nd 3.5 genration aircrafts, which i dont think very useful in wars. they can only be useful after anyone destroyed enemy air defense nd airforce or project complete air dominance in enemy air space.
pakistani air force ======
1:- f16 block 50/52 = 75 (4 genration).
2:- jf 17 block 1, 2 nd 3 = 50+62+26+50
= 188 (4 genration).
3:- j10 c = 36 (4.5 genration).
so total aircraft = 299 aircrafts approx.
indian air force =======
1:- mirage 2000 = 49 (4 genration).
2:- mig 29 = 68 (4 genration).
3:- tejas 1 = 40 (4 genration).
4:- su 30 mki = 260+12 (4 genration).
5:- rafale = 36 (4.5 genration).
6:- tejas mark 1a = 83 (4 genration) order.
so total = 548 approx aircrafts
chinese air force =======
1:- su 27 = 78 (4 genration).
2:- su 30 = 90 (4 genration).
3:- j10 = 565 (4 nd 4.5 genration).
4:- j11 = 225 (4 genration).
5:- j16 = 300 (4.5 genration).
6:- j20 = 300 (5 genration).
7:- su 35 = 24 (4 genration).
so total = 1582 capable fighters.
so against pakistan india hv 1.8 times more capable fighters. meanwhile chinese hv near 1600 fighters in 4, 4.5 nd 5 genration. so they hv 3 times more capable fighters than us. In pakistan nd india case i added even ordered fighters, which not in production right now...thats why i think IAF isnt in hurry. they stopped to think about competing with china.
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