The fighter can take on early variants of F-16? PFFFT!!!!! All F-16s have been upgraded to MLU standard equivalent to Block-50. Now the aircraft will launch AIM-120C AMRAAM from 120 km and maneuver away. Tejas will have to wait to get to 75 Km to launch R-77 Adder. And in avionics, EW and turn...
PFFT!! JF-17 has WMD-7 Day/ Night targeting pod for night bombing plus Night Vision goggles which Tejas LCA does not have. And maneuverability advantage of JF-17 is enough to counter the HMD used in Tejas.
By the way Tejas uses old Dash-3 HMS of the 80's era. It only offers off bore sight upto...
JF-17 is not low class as it gives a 4th generation platform. Block-3 will belong to 4+ Generation. And I guarantee you that FGFA won't come into reality before 2020 or 2025. Still we managed to get 71 JF-17 in 9 years but how many Tejas LCA have been inducted till now? 35 years of Hardwork will...
So the moral is every step has a reason. China is inducting S-400 because they want to get more powerful SAMs. This does NOT mean that HQ-9 is a failure.
Were you there at the test of HQ-9? If USAF had F-22 why they inducted f-35? Was the F-22 Inferior? :crazy:
Salute your Logic
FGFA won't become a reality before 2025 we know that. By the time PAF will have 250 JF-17 ( Can be less because of orders)