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It's fake news, the link you posted just copies the exact one pager so simply echos the original fake news. The letter is nowhere to be find on the official Phillipine Gov site, there has been no statement of sale and even Bramhos would be jumping up and down trumpeting this win and they are...

The letter is a pretty obvious fake, no country awards contracts like this in a simple one pager.

The F-15Qs/SA and Rafales do present fighters with greater performance then JF-17, both in terms of range, EW suite, radars etc. Granted you are right, US is always restrictive with weapons but remember many of these purchases are not made on outright merit of each aircraft. There are strong...

So your logic is if we priced it like a F-35, then F-35 customers would choose JF-17 instead?

Makes sense from a political and operational perspective. Many of the instructors in QAF are PAF or ex-PAF types. Will be easier to train Qatari pilots of MFI-17s and JF-17 LIFTs in this case. They are inducting a massive fleet of fighters but only have 9 BAE Hawks for advanced training

UK ejection seats and Italian radar too!

I ma not disputing these capabilities are not standard, my point was a medium/heavy fighter will always have much better capabilities in these areas then a light fighter

I do not disagree, it has more capabilities then perhaps it was originally intended for, and indeed in many aspects (BVR, Anti-ship) it is better than many medium sized fighters. However constantly comparing it to Rafale or F-16 misses the point. the F-16 and J-10 are PAF's medium fighters. When...

Yup, with JC-10, JF-17 and F-16 Mirage's are our least capable air defence fighters, best retire the Mirage IIIs and keep the ROSE ones for strike till we have enough JC-10s to replace them

One thing here is counting squadrons on paper and treating them the same. To give you an example No 19 is an F-16ADF unit with 13 old and second hand planes. No 5 has 18 new Block 52s. So safe to assume No 5 will be able to throw 12 planes into the fight immediately (all very capable) whilst...

What amuses me here is how many on this forum keep asking "why can't JF-17 do this or that?" All along JF-17 was designed as a F-5/MIG-21/F-7/Mirage III replacement. Not a F-16/Mirage 2000/Gripen/MIG-29 replacement. Capabilities like IFR, BVR, LGBs, etc were never designed for light fighters...

As China catches up with and eventually surpasses the west with regards to military tech you can expect this to be passed on to a large extent in the military equipment Pakistan gets. The J-10C, Hangor, Z-10, VT-4 maybe slightly behind the very latest western counterparts from France or US, but...

So what you are crying about is that Pakistan aligned itself with the super power of the last century and gained defence benefits and now Pakistan has aligned itself with the future super power of this century and will gain defence benefits? While during the whole time India continues to get...

In shocking news France supports efforts to make a load of money out of India, whilst Indian domestic industry falters....

In terms of it's radar and the PL-15, these are the most capable jets in Pakistan right now!

This may well be signalling to India as they are deploying S-400s. A heavy long range Barbur strike could take out these SAMs. So may force India to 1) push back it's S-400s thus negating much of their range advantage 2) expend many of theur S-400 missiles taking out Barbus and thus freeing up...

Usually you can expect about 1/2 or 2/3rds of the fleet to be docked at home and aroun 30% always active on training/ops. True that too much of our naval power is centred around Karachi still....

I would argue that they are not independent of each other but are seperate services. USMC F-18s fly off US Carriers and F-35s fly off USN Amphibs. US marine officers are schooled at US Naval Academy and staff colleges. There is also much cross posting. One service coould not really function...

It is strange that with many new ships coming we have not at least started training on or induction of another helicopter platform. Alloutte being retired, Sea Kings too big and old. Only leaves a handful of Z-9s when we now will soon have a fleet of 15 major surface vessels. Very strange that...

I have never sene or hard such a thing, the practicalties of such an arrangment would be difficult and especially if this crash was say controlled flight into terrain then unsure how such an arrangment wokld help