Zahid
Junior Member
Cheap, very cheap, extremely cheap are all relative terms with no figures attached to them. One man's cheap is another man's expensive and vice versa. With 150 - 250 JF17 production run for PAF alone is enough to make it viable. Just spread the cost of delvelopment over this number and you will get a number less than USD 1 Million. All the parts that go into making JF17 are not western-priced. And certainly JF17 is more than the sum of its parts. PAF is very pleased with it. PAF pilots prefer it over older F16.
Even a "hand full" of other customers would make it a success. Third world countries are ideal customers for it. Especially when you consider how sanctions are slapped on by western countries at any pretext.
It was a very smart move by Pakistan to deflect and counter pressure from USA, start own production, take a step towards development of capabilities that would allow own designing, develop stronger ties with China, and answer India's domestic fighter LCA.
JF17 and J10 are not competitors. If indeed they were China would have killed this project.
Repeating the question from my last post: I would like to question the assertion that extremes of armed trainers and high-end jets would out compete the rest of the fighters. What is the logic behind that and how could this be made to look tenable?
Even a "hand full" of other customers would make it a success. Third world countries are ideal customers for it. Especially when you consider how sanctions are slapped on by western countries at any pretext.
It was a very smart move by Pakistan to deflect and counter pressure from USA, start own production, take a step towards development of capabilities that would allow own designing, develop stronger ties with China, and answer India's domestic fighter LCA.
JF17 and J10 are not competitors. If indeed they were China would have killed this project.
Repeating the question from my last post: I would like to question the assertion that extremes of armed trainers and high-end jets would out compete the rest of the fighters. What is the logic behind that and how could this be made to look tenable?
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