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Shaheen X begins.

You know something is ridiculous when even the esteemed Deino calls you out on your Jai Hind.

Are these official or fan-made? I think there is a PDF member who makes similar patches and they look really good.

Do we have confirmation on aircraft type Pakistan is sending over?

They are terminating the production line for old J-20 pretty soon.

Click on the quoted post. There are several attached images of the article.

Beyond the Thunderdome is actually my favorite Mad Max movie and I don’t get the hate some people have for it. RIP Tina Turner.

It is executing a hard turn during flare release. You can faintly see vortices forming over wings/canards.

That’s the intention. But said variant will probably be used for export since PLAAF will be J-20/J-16 going forward.

It is an improved smoke generator container.

My point is that tech should not be a hurdle since on block 3 the EW and RWR have changed to Chinese as well. The economical and political hurdles, like you said, will probably kill the deal.

Argentina is going for block 3. The ejection seat can be swapped out for the domestic version used on J-10C.

https://secondtononepaf.com/2022/11/08/enter-the-dragon-beginning-of-a-new-era/

From what I’ve read the issue isn’t so much that the ammo is old than that it has different trajectory than Soviet rockets.

TR count is an important metric but it is not the end-all of radar performance. Often neglected are the backend components of the radar which does stuff like signal processing and convert raw data into something the aircraft can use.

Specs for KLJ-7A are outdated. As of 2020 even the less powerful air cooled LF-601 has a maximum range of 200KM against fighter sized targets (5M^2).

IRST is not magic and can’t substitute the radar but can pull off some very neat tricks, like giving passive lock for AAMs and not triggering RWR on the bogie.