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The Chinese engine might well be mature by the delivery date 2014-15. They have ~5 years to develop it and according to the Chinese, they are already flying WS-10A in some fighters. They are even developing new engines based on it for larger transport aircraft.

That is an interesting point. It seems to me that that JF-17 is optimised for medium to low altitude performance as it has a similar wing design to the F-16. Air battles are set to move to higher altitudes, but is this allowed by modern airframe designs or modern high performance engines? The...

On the contrary it seems you are his biggest fan because you believe he gave Pakistan a bad reputation. Doesn't matter who wants him. Scientists don't get sent to jail for helping their country develop. He's a criminal to people like you because he helped Pakistan develop nuclear technology, not...

Please read: The Al-Khalid Usman Ansari They are written by a Pakistani military journalist, who writes articles for various well-known publications.

Posted before, page 58 of this thread. Definitely an LGB underneath. Looks like you're right about the U-darter on the wing-tip: Big guy is CAS ACM Parvez Mehdi Qureshi.

I think we can assume the FBW software would take into account such small changes to the weight distribution?

The above post proves that you do. Doesn't matter how small you claim the RCS to be, it will be detected from hundreds of miles away. Israelis don't have a monopoly on ECM suites. Its agility is proven to be inferior to the original MiG-21 design, and that wasn't anything special either. Good...

We can't be 100% sure until we actually see it with TVC, decisions are changed all the time. All we know right now is that Air Chief Marshal Tanvir M. Ahmad told a newspaper that FC-20 would have "Russian TVC technology". We also know the Chinese are making a 3D TVC nozzle for their...

Why are you guys talking about block 10? As far as I know, PAF's F-16s are the F-16A/B block 15 which have the inlet hardpoints. There is a picture somewhere of a PAF F-16 with the ATLIS laser designator pod on the starboard side inlet hardpoint.

It was kind of him to let them know, wasn't it?

Wouldn't the JF-17 would be more cost-effective than this Mirage F1 upgrade?

Its a single fighter, you can't re-paint aircraft so easily. I think the aeroplane with Pak/China colours was one of the first two delivered in 2007. The rest have the grey colour scheme.

Its not just the short legs; the radar, the maximum take-off weight, the performance, the whole package is just too old. It would be completely pointless fitting them with IFR when what PAF really needs is to replace them with a new fighter. If you can only afford to fly F-7s, can you afford...

Its true, F-16 being a bonus was said by a PAF official in an interview, I forget where. If F-16 is such a major part of PAF's air defence, why did they order over twice as many guided bombs and bunker-busters as AMRAAMs?

Great video, thanks for posting it Munir. How many Dassault Falcons do PAF have? When were they delivered and upgraded?

Aren't the new variants (AK-103?) much better with accuracy?

Wow, you know so much about Pakistan's nuclear program. Are you AQ Khan? All credit for the humour goes to know-it-alls such as yourself!

Your english is fine, those pictures are amazing. Please show us any designs that are small and low-cost, for countries like Pakistan.

Yup, prior to the US guarding Pakistani nukes, "Jehadis" were detonating them all over the world, weren't they? Good job the US are finally putting a stop to that. They even let Pakistan safeguard some of their valuable radiation sensors! Not EBAY, he was more like Santa Claus. Driving around...

Even people who know lots about aircraft won't know the number of parts in them. Not thousands, tens of thousands.