asif iqbal
Banned Idiot
^^^^ that is true, that happened in 2002 during stand-off, China sent within 24 hours 40 F7PGs to Pakistan, also if u look at the timeline China speeded up JF17 project after that, and by 2003 it had made its madein flight
I expect not much change till 2015. It depends on what India gets. And looking at that Pak can wait till 2018.
If costs would be the reason they would not go for anything ore expensive indeed. But since minimum warfare is HMS, BVR and reasonable range with IFR and decent ECM/Radar you can expect that the Fc1 is the minimum in the next few years. Even for point defense the J7 is no longer good enough. There is simple not enough room for what the minimum needs are. The J7 is nice for some african countries but not long viable option for a super power. Not even in the middle of China.