Is this drone news item related to Pakistan Air Force as this thread is?

This thread is pure comedy … dont stop now please.

As for, ‘…a non contributing forum members who continually spam threads with repeatedly discussed points again and again?’ … OMG what will I do! I must reply to this same question over and over again and prove my eshlongness … yada yada yada

As far as I am concerned you dont need to keep reading the responses, questions or attempts at trolling … and def dont need to reply to them. So stop acting like babies … wait scratch that, cuz this is entertaining

No need to IM me … I will detract my “light fighter” example with a medium fighter instead, as I was just using it as an analogy. How come India is not going on to develop its own fighter instead of trying to get an MRCA for the better part of this decade? After all, how many detailed briefings have the Indian officials have had on a variety of platforms!?
My point basically is that it is a retarded line of thought to think PAF will cancel the deal with Saab just because they received all the information they needed from briefing by Saab and now China has that knowledge as well and will provide PAF with a copy cat solution!

I dont see how China can gather data for a briefing only certain PAF officials would have had from the Swedes regarding their AEW aircraft and its performance. And if they were able to do so, it must mean that either Chinese engineers are very very talented and at the same time their Indian counter parts are really really dimwitted. After all, Indians have had such briefings about all sort of military hardware from every aircraft manufacturer out there. Yet they are unable to make even a light fighter aircraft with sufficient performance to gain trust from their own air force.
And I would like to see your source about any potential Hawkeyes coming from the States as free of charge? Also, since you seem privy to the contract between Saab and PAF, what exactly does that exit clause state? And as far as I remember, China was well on its way towards developing AEW capability by the time PAF had a chance to procure any of the systems available on the market.

Right … and they learned everything meaningful from briefings! Makes perfect sense for conspiracy theorists. And since when was China briefed about the AEW’s performance?
Aside from the Saab deal, nothing is yet concrete on paper. I doubt Pakistan will be getting any US made early warning aircraft.

PAF doesnt use LANTIRN. For the MLU birds, there could always be a follow-up order for more Sniper pods

This is a little surprising as I had believed there were Indian/Israeli origin ECM/EW systems in the Su-30s. Does the Su-30s carry and podded ECM/EW equip or is it all carried internally since there should be no lack of space.
This will definitely give an edge to an adversary