1= F-135 is coming with a unit price of 13 million, now do the labor of rest of the math and google yourself.
2= Even in Block 3, JF-17 will be no where near Block 52+ cuz it simply don't have the air frame capacity.
3= J-10 didn't worked out? :)
It's B variant falls between the block 52 and 60...
Around 7 million per unit if around 100 engines are ordered, a bigger order will further decrease the price. RD-93 comes at half the price of around 3 million per piece but has 3 times less service life and twice the life cycle costs.
And believe me, Europeans are dying to get anything that...
A-If an aircraft has a service life of 6000 hours and is installed with an engine with 2000 hours of service life then wouldn't it need engine replacement? & what will be the status of cost then?
B- The size difference is not big enough to cause structural changes and also because JF-17's engine...
This also explains the so many confusing factors about the decisions made by PAF in more recent years. Regarding the choices taken in the JF-17 program, the resolve of sticking to the "trojan cows" like F-16, dropping of FC-20 etc.
You are quite right. However...
You get tired from respecting the majority of "opinions", an example will be that a member once proposed in his "expert view" to fit "WS-15" or "WS-10" to JF-17 because RD-33 was simply less powerful -_-
And please do not misunderstand "Sarcasm" with...
If you would have kept a close eye over the "economical warfare" as well as the armed one then you would have been in a better position to understand :)
Saudi maneuver to bring oil prices from 100+ to -50 have brought Russia into a kind of economical situation as it was in early 90's. Though...
In the beginning at this forum it was greatly annoying but with the passage of time it got funny. I am talking about the "expert reviews" coming from mouths that still got "feeders"(technically speaking).
For example a person summed it up like that "EJ-200 has only 400 lbf higher thrust and...
Well that were again Iranians that stated that Saeqeh(an F-5 clone) can beat F-18 super Hornet :)
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And I will again add, it was A variant of J-10 that beat the MKK variant of SU-30, the B variant...
There are many concerned areas when we talk about fighter jets. J-10b is a medium single engine jet built on the idea of a capable multirole figher that can be produced and maintained in "big numbers". SU-30 is a long range heavy fighter but costly and hard to produce and maintain. Still for...
Oh God, please succeed this resolution with 100% margin :tup: let me see the damned faces of PAF officials, let us be rid of this lifetime crap. And rain "burnol" from skies over India in case if you won't accept my earlier prayers.
There will be a million miles long discussion on this thread and end result will be still "Pakistani soldiers running around with a "heavily modernized" G3 in there hands in 2050/60 :coffee: while many of the countries may be inducting energy weapons by then at squad level."
Sometimes a right way of diplomacy is the only thing required. Even F-16 could have been "tamed" if enough professional commitment would have been given to it instead of more than enough "craze" about this jet.
As Iranians tamed the Tomcats, successfully turning them into "Persian Cats" in a...
Correct me if I am being too idiot but how and why are atomic power plants or enriching facilities connected to internet? Now that is a confirm suicidal act no matter if the facility is that of the country who "invented the net".
Well the thing is that this time Russia is waiting for them to try the "adventure" again and as far as the SU-30sm VS F-16 thing is concerned...lets not even waist our time and "keystrokes" on that :tup: