
Pakistan Air Force J10-C fighter jets fly over Islamabad during a national day parade on March 23, 2025. — AFP
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Shanghai: Just a week after the ceasefire ending with India, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan is visiting China, the country’s largest arms supplier, with the performance of these weapons providing an interest to burn analysts and governments equally.
Earlier this month, the most amazing feature of the four-day fighting was Islamabad that its Chinese-provided jets shot six Indian planes-including three French-made Rafael fighters. Experts talking to AFP warned that the limited scope of the fighting has made it difficult to draw concrete conclusions about the capacity of Chinese devices. Yet, Lyall Morris, who hails from the Asia Society Policy Institute, said, yet for the international community, the Western (Indian) hardware had a rare opportunity to evaluate Chinese military hardware in the battlefield. “
Although China puts hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending every year, the weapon is far behind the United States as an exporter. China’s drones are used in counter -terrorism operations, and its weapons have been deployed in Yemen to Saudi Arabia and African countries, against the International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) senior researcher, Simon Weizman, said. “But this is the first time since the 1980s that a state has used many types of Chinese weapons in action against another state,” Visman said, referring to the Iran Iraq war when they were used from both sides.
According to Sepri, about 63 63 % of China’s arms exports are Pakistan. In the recent fighting, Pakistan used the J10-C-C. Dragon and JF-17 Thunder aircraft, which were equipped with air missiles. It was the first time that the J10-C was used in an active battle, said Yun Sun of the Stemson Center. Islamabad’s air defense also used the Chinese kit-which includes headquarters 9P long-range missile systems.
“This was the first permanent battle where most Pakistani forces used Chinese weapons and had the primarily their primary authority over them,” said Bilal Khan, founder of the Kova Defense News and Enlossy Group in Toronto. India has not officially confirmed that any of its plane has been wasted, though a senior security source said that the AFP said that three jets had crashed on the land of the house without any reason. The Rafale maker company Dasalt has also not commented. James Char, who hails from Singapore’s Nannying Technological University, said that Rafael is considered one of the most tacked jets in Europe, while J-10-C “is not the most developed in China”. But if Pakistan’s claims are true, “it should not be surprising … considering that Rafael is a multiol fighter, while the J10C was built for air fighter and it is also equipped with a strong radar.”
In the days after the Dog Fight Reports, the stock of the J-10-C-C-C. Aircraft Company increased by more than forty percent. “We will probably see Chinese contractors giving more orders,” said Stemeson Center.
“We think the stock markets have shown abuse,” said Ezemiman, “because we still have to see that all the weapons used and if that really means a lot”. Analysts said that if more data emerged, the conflict still does not disclose much about the Chinese military’s own capabilities.
China’s own systems and weapons are far more advanced than its exports. And when there is a high -tech hardware, even more importantly, how these weapons are used. “
CSIS’s Brian Hart said he would be careful against “reading too much” in recent developments. He explained, “I don’t think you can compare it directly to how this Chinese -made system will rent in a different environment against the latest opponents like the United States.”
“Since the number of data points is low and since we don’t know much about skills
And the training of personnel from both sides is difficult to draw
The results, “Kanag said.