I dont think any war in the Sub-continent will ever be a “walk in the park” for any party involved. Such talk shows very very little knowledge of the reality of war. Adding a smiley at the end amplifies the type of statement you just made……

I was just talking about the IAF vs PAF, PAF will have much more deterrence in future related to now. At the moment the 100 odd MKIs the IAF have is enough to attain total Aerial Superiority.

So basically nothing is certain is what we are actually saying?

Non oen actually knows for sure and I have a feeling that in their quest to desperatley try and get their engine ustalled, the makers of Kaveri may delay the LCA project.

If Kaveri selected it may not be up to the job and if GE/Eurojet selected people wil shout a domestic equievelent could have been used.

Kaveri engine project is effectively decoupled from the LCA project. Meaning that the LCA MK2 will have foreign engines. This is the status now and nothing is uncertain about it.

Indian Aircraft development will not end with the LCA, there is the MCA and may be other projects down the pipeline and Kaveri can serve them well. 😉

It can be safely assumed that by the time Pakistan gets the FC-20 with AESA, the MKIs will also have an AESA radar.

All of the MRCA competitors have AESA as well so it is not much of a contest if it goes to an all out war.

But you are right the Pakistani strategi of Several squadrons of FC 20/ F 16 52+ and JF 17 to make up numbers should provide enough detterence. (i.e. It will not be a walk in the Park as it is now 🙂 )

If PAF don’t manage to buy a new generation western fighter (like what happened to Gripen acquisition) than there will be nothing left for PAF in the next decade.

There will not be any Indo-Pak war this coming decade. So PAF will be there and good.

Hopefully more economic co-operation between the two countries will make War a costly exercise for both economies and inturn lead to peace negotiations.

The U.S.A do not give aid to these countries as handouts. They do it for a variety of reasons aimed at serving their interest in the respective regions.

Thats not a crazy suggestion. It may well be the case, although a Grifo/AIM-9L armed crank winged PG is a very different opponent to a bog standard Iranain F-7.

I would think they would have done some home-made upgrades to keep them current like they have done with their other fighters.