Pak upgraded JF-17 no match for Indian S-400 and Rafale air strike power
Pak upgraded JF-17 no match for Indian S-400 and Rafale air strike power
The S-400 system is not only about firing enemy aircraft from the sky. It is about providing cross-border visibility to a depth of almost 300 kilometers into the enemy plain area.
After Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan returned from China, the acquisition of 50 Block III 50 JF-17 fighters by Islamabad was being obeyed to take the Indian S-400 Air Defense System due to his stealth characteristics. This is just a domestic chauvinism in the Pakistani section that is truly without facts.
Aframe from Block III Single Machine JF 17 Fighter is said to be built with composite materials to provide the necessary stealth features to avoid air defense systems from enemies and target high-value assets. Even the indigenous Fighter Tejas has a 45 percent composite material but does it mean it can take two S-400 systems placed by PLA China throughout Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh? JF-17 is powered by the same Russian RD3 engine, which is used by MIG-29 air defense fighters India and often experiences maintenance / spare parts.
The S-400 system is not only about firing enemy aircraft from the sky. This denies the visibility of Trans PAF frontier by encouraging AWACS and a strategic recce system (F 16 with DB 110 Recce Pod) back. This means that the Pakistani Air Force cannot fly early warning systems in the air and deep penetration radar because the S-400 missile will drop them if there is hostility. As a result where Pakistani JF -17 fighters will fight without the support of Awacs and Chinese radar dating. The only exception to this scenario is a high mountain field that is present only in the Union area in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The Indian Air Force has a multi-layer defense network and not only relies on the S-400 system. It has front time fighters such as Rafale, which has the top of the line aesa radar and is armed with the most deadly meteor 140-160km ranging outside the visual range to the air. This means that JF-17 won’t even know when it’s eliminated from the sky. The IAF has a medium-range surface of 70km ranges to air missiles (MRSAM), Digital Pechora and Akash surface to swing the missiles to take the enemy. Furthermore, the S-400 system is always equipped with a nearby weapon system (Ciws) such as Russian Pantsir or American Phalanx to take stand-alone missiles that are fired into the air defense network. Finally, the S-400 is not a static system but a dynamic weapons system that can be relocatable.
However, presentation is the fact that the Pakistani Air Force itself is not too confident about JF-17 fighters compared to the American F-16. Not one JF-17 crossed the control line (LOC) or even launched a weapon during a Pakistani-failed attack in the Rajouri-Mendhar sector on February 27, 2019, the day after the Indian Air Force stopped Jaish-e-Mohammed’s terrorist training camp in Balakot as retaliation to strike Pulwama terror.
