You don't even fly your F16s that much actually. The ADF ones when received by Jordan already had their 75% lifetime used up, which then received the overhaul and again before being transferred to Pakistan had again used up almost all of its flight hours. When you guys received it, it would be hardly having 500 hours more without the MLU.
Just for comparison even the Bisons in our fleet fly 120-150 hours a year, MKIs flying upto 180-200 hours a years. By that standards either you guys don't fly your F16s ADF or you have completed the flying hours and in gross level of incompetence keep flying after the OEM guarantees are over putting the pilots and ground crews at a danger. So much for your competence.
Coming to 31 of the original F16 AM/BM. They did receive the MLU extending a further 2000 hours of service life. But the engines weren't changed and had the same 6000 hours life which was already 75-80% used before going into the MLU. This again means either you don't fly as much or you fly expired engines in a show of great competence.
Only the 14 embargoed and 18 newer F16s have lives which can be used considerably.
Coming to your JF17 fleet, those smokey engines have a life of not more than 500-600 hours , then how come your Airforce officers claim that JF17s of block 1 have flown 1000+ hours? Because you guys have recieved no extra RD93s as of today , it only means that the officers of a competent airforce is not telling the truth simply.
Coming back to 27th February, again we are an open democracy where even deaths of nuclear research personal cannot be hidden because of relatively more free and widespread media. That's where your claim of Su30MKI going down goes down the drain. But unlike India, you guys suppressed all press , even then videos came out of doosra banda , didn't it?
A single Bison without even 8222 spj went in that day and shot down your AWACS backed F16BM.
Shows all the competence of your Airforce.
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