36 aircrafts and 7 Helicopters for BD Armed forces

[Penguin]

Fight with Myanmar? Over what?

And, the Yak-130 cannot simulate J-10.

The order is said to include 9 JL-9 / K-8

The non-afterburning JL-8, aka K-8, is a two-seat intermediate jettrainer and light attack aircraft by China Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. While the type primarily serves as a basic cum advanced trainer, it can also be used in cloase air support and even air combat role when appropriately armed.

The afterburning JL-9 was built to suit the desperate requirements of the PLAAF for a new trainer aircraft to match its new generation fighters in aerodynamic performance and avionics suite. The aircraft is being used to train pilots flying fourth-generation aircraft such as Chengdu J-10, Sukhoi Su-27SK, Sukhoi Su-30MKK and Shenyang J-11. GAIC built the JL-9 by modifying the JJ-7 aircraft, which was derived from the Soviet MiG-21U Mongol fighter trainer. Unlike many other contemporary fighter-trainer aircraft, the JL-9 is a full fighter-sized aircraft.

Tha's your J-10 training line right there.

 

[UKBengali]

The order is said to include 9 JL-9 / K-8

The non-afterburning JL-8, aka K-8, is a two-seat intermediate jettrainer and light attack aircraft by China Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. While the type primarily serves as a basic cum advanced trainer, it can also be used in cloase air support and even air combat role when appropriately armed.

The afterburning JL-9 was built to suit the desperate requirements of the PLAAF for a new trainer aircraft to match its new generation fighters in aerodynamic performance and avionics suite. The aircraft is being used to train pilots flying fourth-generation aircraft such as Chengdu J-10, Sukhoi Su-27SK, Sukhoi Su-30MKK and Shenyang J-11. GAIC built the JL-9 by modifying the JJ-7 aircraft, which was derived from the Soviet MiG-21U Mongol fighter trainer. Unlike many other contemporary fighter-trainer aircraft, the JL-9 is a full fighter-sized aircraft.

Tha's your J-10 training line right there.

I had read about that somewhere before but could not find the link!

This gives me even more confidence that BD will be ordering the Su-30/J-10 this decade for it's air-force.

Probably post 2020 the offer may come by and I don't see why CFTs could not be developed for J-10A/B for long range missions/patrolling apart from IFR either retractable or fixed.

Well we shall have to wait and see what happens.

China could well have a specific export-variant type that they would not have a problem offering to BD in the next year or two.

In BD's case I think that an aircraft like the J-10 would only really need to be used for air-defence of the country, which it would do really well since BD is a small country anyway. CFTs would be useful to allow long-range missions/patrolling(deep-strikes into enemy territory or to support the BD Navy in the Bay of Bengal) but I think any SU-30 order will lessen the need for this. Su-30 has one big advantage over the J-10 and that is the much heavier weapons load it can carry.