The Kashmir conflict 2025.
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Every Indian is celebrating this. So do we have confirmation that the debris only has limited value? Many Indians are claiming it's completely intact, unexploded, without a single part missing. And because of this, China won't sell J-35 to Paki, to punish them & prevent more tech leak. 
Got it. So that makes J-10C/PL-15 even more superior.
I think that it wouldn’t be so bad if the French priced the plane more reasonably. Trouble is it is like 7 times more expensive than the J-10 that shot it down.
To be honest, as China's technological abilities overtake the West, technology transfers like this will become more and more commonplace, so just need to get used to it. A lot of know-how was transferred to China over the past 50 years and so the direction will reverse soon enough.Every Indian is celebrating this. So do we have confirmation that the debris only has limited value? Many Indians are claiming it's completely intact, unexploded, without a single part missing. And because of this, China won't sell J-35 to Paki, to punish them & prevent more tech leak.
Indians don't really have the industrial base to create something like PL-15. If they had the capability, couldn't they re-produce Meteor instead of paying millions for 300+ missiles? Just buy a couple and re-produce?
This guy sounds like Ben Hodges talking about Ukrainians.
TBF his "assessment" sounds pretty arbitrary, and may reflect more upon select personal experiences rather than any sort of institutional consensus.
Interestingly, Chuck Yeager, the USAF BG credited as the first pilot to break the sound barrier thought rather highly of the PAF.
Before May 7th: Boasted their indigenous ASTRA Mk.2 had "far surpassed" China's PL-15.
After May 7th: Clutched PL-15E wreckage like discovering holy relics.