Shanghai: A little over a week after a tense ceasefire with India reached Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Beijing, the country’s largest weapon supplier.

The visit comes as both international analysts and governments control the performance of Chinese delivered weapons following recent air distributions between Pakistan and India.

A striking demand from four days of battle earlier this month was Islamabad’s announcement that its Chinese delivered jets had successfully shot six Indian aircraft, including three French-made Rafale fighters.

This claim has led some observers to see the alleged victories as a potent symbol of Peking’s military possibly on the global scene.

Experts who talked to AFP Has warned against drawing final conclusions about the skills of Chinese equipment based on the limited extent of the recent three -day.

“This was a rare opportunity for the international community to measure Chinese military hardware on the battlefield against Western (Indian) hardware,” Lane Morris of the Asia Society Policy Institute noted.

While China pours hundreds of billions of dollars into defense spending every year, it lags far behind the United States as a weapon exporter.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Senior scientist Siemon Wezeman told AFP The fact that China’s drones are used in terrorist operations and its weapons have been deployed by Saudi Arabia in Yemen and against rebel forces in African countries.

“But this is the first time since the 1980s that a state has used a large number of Chinese weapons of many types in action against another state,” Wezeman said, referring to the Iran-Iraq war when used on both sides.

Pakistan accounts for about 63% of China’s arms exports, according to Sipri. In the recent matches, Pakistan J10-C-powered dragon and JF-17 thundered aircraft used, armed with air-to-air missiles. It was the first time J10-C has been used in active match, said Stimson Center’s Yun Sun.

Islamabad’s air defense also used Chinese Kit-Inclusive HQ-9P long-range surface-to-air missile system-and implemented Chinese radar as well as armed and reconnaissance drones.

“This was the first sustained battle in which most of Pakistan’s forces used Chinese weapons and basically depended on them as their primary option,” said Bilal Khan, founder of the Toronto-based Quwa Defense News and Analysis Group.

India has not officially confirmed that any of its flights were lost even if a senior security source told AFP Three jets had crashed at home without giving or the cause. Rafale Maker Dassault has not commented either.

Rafale is considered one of Europe’s most high-tech jets, while the J10-C “is not even China’s most advanced,” James Char of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University said.

But if Pakistan’s claims are true, “this should not be surprising … Given that Rafale is a multirole fighter, while the J-10C was built for air battles and is also equipped with a stronger radar,” Char said.

In the days after Dogfight reports, J10-C manufacturer Chengdu Aircraft Company’s stock increased over 40%.

“We are likely to see more orders going to Chinese contractors,” said Stimson Center’s Sun. However, “it will take time and significant reorientation from Chinese weapons manufacturers for the country to be a large armed exporter,” said Jennifer Kavanagh of the US think tank defense priorities.

She noted that China “cannot mass produce certain key inputs, including aircraft engines”.

Wezeman said he thought the stock markets “overreacted” as “we still have to see how well all the weapons used worked and if it really means a lot”. Even if more data emerges, the conflict still does not reveal much about the Chinese military’s own capabilities, the analysts say.

China’s own systems and weapons are much more advanced than what it exports. And while it’s important to have high -tech hardware, it’s much more important how these weapons are used, “Kavanagh said.

Brian Hart from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said he would warn against “to read too much” in recent development. “I don’t think you can make direct comparisons to how these Chinese -made systems would cope in different environments against more advanced opponents like the United States,” he explained.

“Since the number of data points is small and since we do not know much about the skill and training of the staff on both sides, it is difficult to draw final conclusions,” Kavanagh said.