british_bengali
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Well, people judge things with results. How well you got yourself educated is shown at you result card. But JF-17 result card is till now filled with a big 0.
There is nothing wrong with the JF-17s/FC-1 capability but the only problem with export is that it uses either russian engines or newly designed chinese engine. Problem with russian engine is that that same engine is used in the MIG-29 which means the FC-1 can divert sales away from Russia. Russia have probably asked china not to sell FC-1 with RD-93 to certain countries such as Bangladesh where russia may have a prospect of future sales. Nothing to do with india connection as such since China could make it like they did with MBT-2000.
The Chinese engine is the WS-13 and only began serial production in 2009 making it a very new and unproven engine.