Hello everyone, i had a few questions in mind would like to see your expert opinion.

What is the amount of Fuel an F-16 can carry?
How much time can it remain air-bound?

And in a small country such as Pakistan, is it worth it to have Aerial refuelling. As i assume all bases wont be that far to land, refuel and take off. Having an aerial refuller airbound all the time, is it really worth it?

That’s a wrong way to look at it. Your country size does not matter that much, more important is what you want to achieve with airborne refuelling.

Israel is 38 times smaller than Pakistan but it needs refuelers because it expects to carry out long range missions. Similarly what PAF has realised is that the entire eastern seaboard is open on the Indian side and with help of airborne refuelling they can attack deep south into India, bypassing all land based defences.

Pakistan is realizing these light weight attack helicopters like the Mongoose and Z-10 are too compromised for their role.
if you’re going to buy one, you go heavy and nothing else.

Pakistan needs a US and a non-US solution because they mutually don’t trust each other.
Pakistan knows the US will side with India.
US knows Pakistan will side with terrorist groups in certain countries

Russia knows they are losing India as a customer so this is a benefit to both.
Russia gets a replacement for India
Pakistan gets access to Russian weapons that are better than what they could get with China.

Completely wrong.

Pakistan will never be in a position to replace India in Russia and India does not want to replace the Yo-Yo relationship US has with Pakistan. US will support whomever they need at that time as they always do and India knows that.

Further the difference between Pak and US are only on Afghan Taliban (Yes terrorist today, but were potential business partners for US pre 9/11 and we don’t know about the future)

Best solution will be to get as many US freebies as possible as the first line and spend own cash on Chinese/Russian equipment to beef up the numbers. They do need to rationalise as currently PAF have equipment from every major aircraft manufacturing nation (US/France/China/Sweden/Russia (MI-17s).

maybe the idea is not to replace the migs by their equivalent, but by something better.

What’s more, India want an aircraft capable of deep strike, while the Typhoon Tr1 is pretty much all about air to air, which they use their Su-30 for. In short, it is an aircraft they have no use for

As for maintainance costs, why not ask Austrians how they fared with their Tr1 Typhoons that Germans sold to them?

Is this true? Must be amongst a handful of dual seater air superiority fighter out there. Are there any operational in western air forces after F-14 was retired?

Today’s Iran can barely build F-5 variants with zero external support. What can India or Pakistan build with zero external support? MiG-21?

Electricity Consumption (kWh) per Capita in 2012:
Pakistan: 452
India: 744
Iran: 2762
China: 3475

That is not a good thing at all. Iran has massive inefficiencies in its energy sector. The size of their economy compared with energy consumption is scary to say the least.

Iran 2014 Symposium added that “if energy consumption continues the same way by 2025 Iran will need 2.5 million squares natural gas which makes Iran the main gas importer in the world.
http://en.mehrnews.com/news/102219/Iran-domestic-energy-consumption-equivalent-to-EU-industries

JF-17 is FC-1 customized for Pakistan. Pakistan produces nothing. Has no technology.

Than it shouldn’t be a problem to sell it to Iran.

Can it come straight off the line in China to Iran with out any Pakistani involvement or is the only production line is in Pakistan?

Is Growler even on the table? and how would made in India work for Growler? unlikely US will let India assemble/manufacture this capability at home.

North Korean Submarine Launches Missile Test.

A liquid fuelled SLBM, how safe and practical are these?

To answer my own question. Most likely they are the first customer for F-16V

http://www.janes.com/article/55455/us-prepares-to-sell-eight-newbuild-f-16s-to-pakistan

“These new aircraft will be more advanced than the last batch of F-16s [the contract for which was signed in 2006],” said the Pakistani government official.