Recent content by Madafacka Jones

Hope the JCF's steel is sourced from Pakistani suppliers, would probably drive the costs down alot and we would be able to call the ship indigenous to a pretty large extent, otherwise basically everything, including non-critical inputs, would be imported aside from the SSMs. AS3600 is a great...

A bit off-topic here but if you've GaN based radars then why not consider upgrading your entire fleet of non-B52+ F-16s with them? Especially ADFs. Isn't Ozgur basically this. And if not JF-17, why not J-10 for the EW route? Unless the cost benefit analysis doesn't work out for that.

Those dual racks take up additional hardpoints, this doesn't. This will be useful for air to ground roles, where the J-10s load-out is even worse than the F-16 due to it being a 'air superiority fighter', forget about Su-27 and F-15. Even if PAF only intends to use it for aerial combat, it...

True, they would've gotten Su-57s too just for that Russian slice of the fifth gen pie. Unfortunately, CAATSA exists.

@Bilal Khan (Quwa) Why doesn't the PN opt for HQ-9 on the Jinnah class? It's a pretty big missle, but they could have made the Jinnah class cater to it, in the end we would have a long range SAM in the same tier as the Barak-8 which IN operates, instead of CAMM-ER which is medium range. Or...

Knowing EAF, wouldn't be surprised if they end up operating both FC-31 and KF-21.

PAC or CAC should develop F-15 style hardpoints for J-10, where you can mount up BVRs on the fuel tank rack, it would probably fix the load-out issues of the J-10 due to not having wingtips. Would be very useful on the JF-17 as well.

At this point, will the RD-93MA even be enough tho? It has a reported AB thrust of 20,500lb (9300kgf). https://www.defenseworld.net/news/27376/RD_93MA_Engine__to_Power_Pakistan_JF_17_Block_III_Jets__Enters_Thermal_Chamber_Tests The M53-P2 (which the latest variants of M2K use) has a more...

JF-17 empty weight = 7965kg M2K empty weight = 7500kg So the JF-17 is almost 500kg heavier than the Mirage 2000 now?