The Kashmir conflict 2025.

plawolf

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siegecrossbow said:
How else do you know think 18 out of 20 J-10C were combat capable for May 7th?
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Given how new the PAF J10Cs were at the time, I don’t think such high availability would be massively abnormal.

From what I understand, the technical support was more instrumental in providing timely tweaks to allow the J10Cs to be better prepared to go against Meteor equipped Rafales as they got confirmation shortly before the battle that the IAF Rafales had Meteors integrated and available.

You can make of that what you will, but the most obvious possibility is that they disabled whatever software or hardware nerfs the PL15E might have had to unlock its full range capabilities, which was so instrumental in securing that combat result.
 
siegecrossbow

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Temstar said:
Hmmm Shilao and Yankee has a good point though, is there much response out of Russia from Su-30MKI and MiG-29 getting taken out by J-10CE?

I remember last year this time I raised the same question and everyone here on this thread was like "well yeah that's expected result after seeing things in Ukraine."|
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I thought that the more interesting tidbit is that Pakistan had intelligence that IAF already integrated Meteor on Rafale before the battle. Wonder how they obtained that info in the first place.
 
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siegecrossbow said:
Probably ground based maintenance of J-10C/JF-17. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Western Theater Command had a few KJ-500s up in the air just for “spectator” purposes.
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What exactly though that it couldn't be done by PAF itself? There was a report in Pakistani media (which was quickly censored) during the conflict that China was providing AWACS coverage from the northern side and deep into Indian territory.

Edit: I'm guessing Chinese ground staff may have maybe temporarily installed systems on the aircraft that normally aren't present, i.e. some jammers.
 
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