When Wang Dong and a team of personnel rushed to the air base northwest of Karachi, the ZDK-05 was still there, and the Pakistan Air Force had already done the initial processing.

The damage was so severe that it could be described as horrific.

At least two AIM-120Ds were hit, one of which exploded behind the vertical tail, blowing off half of the vertical stabilizer, and the other exploded near the left wing, destroying the engine on the outside, as well as the wing on the outer end of the engine.

In addition, the radar was also damaged, but it didn't look serious, it should have been hit by shrapnel in the radome, and the components inside were not damaged.

How did the plane fly back?

Anyway, the ZDK-05 flew back, and landed safely on the run.

Several crew members were slightly injured, but nothing serious, in fact, they all broke their scalps when the plane was hit by missiles.

The situation is clear at a glance, how can it be fixed?

It is important to know that in the southern regions, the Pakistani Air Force has only 4 ZDK-05s.

After the loss of one, even if the other three increase the frequency of sorties to ensure that one of them patrols in the air at any time, it can only last about three days.

That is, this ZDK-3 must be repaired within 05 days.

It is best to be able to fix it within 2 days.

ZDK-05 is the trump card in the hands of the Pakistan Air Force, and it can even be said to be an artifact, and it is the key force of the Pakistan Air Force that can fight more with less.

Without this AWACS aircraft, the Pakistani Air Force could not hold out for long.

Of course, Wang Dong didn't come to repair the plane, it was the engineer's business, and he didn't have the ability to do this, and he didn't even know how to repair it.

At this time, the battle at night had just begun.

Throughout the day, the Indian Air Force pressed the Pakistani Air Force, especially on the southern front, and the entire area of engagement was in Pakistan.

If it goes on like this, can it be repaid?

What's more, there is already a ZDK-05 damaged, and if you don't give the Indian Air Force a little color and kill the arrogance of the Indian Air Force, the future battle will definitely be even more difficult.

In fact, during the daytime fighting, the Pakistan Air Force has already given the Indian Air Force a head start.

According to the operational statistics of the Pakistan Air Force, during the day 23 fighters were exchanged for the results of almost 50 fighters of the Indian Air Force.

Of course, in fact, only 39 Indian fighters were shot down.

Even so, the Pakistan Air Force achieved a tactical victory.

Moreover, if the loss of pilots is also taken into account, the Pakistan Air Force is a complete victory.

Why?

The Pakistan Air Force lost only seven pilots, while the other 16 pilots all managed to parachute and were quickly found by nearby ground forces.

In total, the Indian Air Force lost 42 pilots, 28 of whom were captured after parachuting.

Although the pilots were still alive, they were confined to prisoner-of-war camps in Pakistan until the end of the war, and did not want to return to fight.

There is no doubt that pilots are more valuable than fighters.

What's more, the Indian Air Force has always lacked good pilots, and even not enough pilots to fly advanced fighter jets procured from countries around the world.

From this point of view, the sustained combat capability of the Indian Air Force is extremely limited.

In fact, this is also the biggest drawback of the Indian Air Force, and it can even be said to be a fatal flaw.

Don't look at India's willingness to spend money on advanced fighters, the purchase price of the F-35AI is more than 300 million US dollars, the average purchase price of the F-16E/F is also more than 100 million US dollars, the "Rafale" is more than 200 million US dollars, and even the average purchase price of the Su-30MKI is more than 100 million US dollars.

However, the Indian Air Force rarely spends money on training aircraft, especially advanced training aircraft.

Perhaps, the top brass of the Indian Air Force take it for granted that with advanced fighters, there is strong combat effectiveness, while training aircraft do not have combat effectiveness.

Obviously, this realization is simply wrong.

No matter how advanced a fighter is, without a good pilot, it is just scrap metal parked on the ground, or an iron coffin flying in the air.

Comparatively, the Pakistan Air Force is paying significantly more attention to trainer aircraft.

As early as several decades ago, Pakistan cooperated with Huaxia to develop the K-8 trainer aircraft in the form of investment, and purchased hundreds of them.

Since then, Pakistan has continued to cooperate with Huaxia and began to purchase JL-10.

After the decision to purchase the JF-20, the Pakistan Air Force purchased 60 JL-10s in one fell swoop and renamed them K-10.

These high-level trainer aircraft have trained a large number of excellent pilots for Pakistan.

In fact, it was precisely because of the K-10 that was procured in advance, so immediately after acquiring the JF-20, the Pakistani Air Force mastered this advanced fighter.

In addition, the existence of the K-10 not only greatly reduces the cost of daily training, but also greatly improves the flight time of Pakistani fighter pilots, so that pilots have more opportunities to fly in the air, rather than training tactics with models on the ground.

Quite simply, the trainer is meant to fly.

Whether it is maintenance costs or hourly flight costs, the trainer is far lower than the fighter, and the trainer has a service life several times that of the fighter.

In fact, any powerful air force has a large number of trainers.

In peacetime, pilots most of the time fly trainers, not fighters, after all, fighters have a limited service life.

Without enough trainers, it is impossible to train enough good pilots.

Moreover, even in terms of daily training, the Indian Air Force is far inferior to the Pakistan Air Force.

Although the training intensity of the Pakistan Air Force is not high, and the average annual flight time of pilots is about 150 hours, which is much lower than the international standard of 200 hours, and far less than the 300 hours of the powerful air force, the training situation of the Indian Air Force is even worse, even if it is an elite unit, the average annual flight time of pilots is only 120 hours, and the average combat unit cannot even guarantee 80 hours.

With such a low training intensity, what combat effectiveness is there to speak of?

How to improve the ability of pilots without allowing them to fly in the sky?

In fact, this is also related to the lack of trainer aircraft in the Indian Air Force, and the serious reduction of training costs.

In peacetime, the lack of training is not a serious problem, at most during daily flights, when pilots lose planes due to improper operation.

In fact, most of the fighter planes that crash in India in normal times have mechanical failures.

But in times of war, the problem becomes extremely serious.

Pilots who have no experience naturally have no confidence on the battlefield, and it is impossible for them to perform well or even complete basic combat missions.

These problems have already been manifested in previous battles.

Unfortunately, even if the Indian Air Force realizes the seriousness of the problem, there is no way to correct and make up for it.