Export bids for JF-17 Thunder Multirole Lightweight Fighter Aircraft
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Azerbaijan interested in purchase of Pakistani-Chinese JF-17 combat aircraft
Azerbaijan intends to purchase JF-17 combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China
09:25 GMT, November 16, 2011 Baku | As Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), which displayed its products in Dubai Airshow-2011 in UAE, told APA, Azerbaijan shows interest in JF-17 Thunder combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China and announced its intention to purchase aircrafts of this type.
The JF-17 Thunder performed flight displays over the Dubai airport during the air show. Members of the Azerbaijani delegation also watched the flights.
Referring to negotiations held with Azerbaijan, company officials said that the discussions have not entered the phase of signing a contract yet. The company is currently executing the orders of the Pakistani Air Forces; the export to Azerbaijan could be realised in the upcoming years. According to the company, the negotiating parties are determining the annual amount of the possible order.
Offering a high manoeuvrability, JF-17 Thunder aircraft have the same or even superior capabilities to the MiG-29 aircraft of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. By introducing this asset into its inventory the Azerbaijani Armed Forces could increase their combat effectiveness.
PAC company officials said that Pakistan and Azerbaijan have high-level relations. Islamabad supports Baku’s positions and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and provided military assistance to the country since the very beginning. Taking these relations into consideration, there will be no problems in the sale of fighter aircraft to Azerbaijan.
According to company’s representatives, within the Pakistan-China cooperation, the production of a Block-2 version of the JF-17 Thunder will soon be launched. This model will be equipped with the newest electronic warfare systems, as well as additional weapon systems. In addition, a two-seat configuration of the aircraft is being developed.
The length of the JF-17 is 14,97 m. The aircraft has a maximum takeoff weight of 12474 kg, a combat radius of 1352 km and reaches a maximum speed of 1909 km/h.
A 23 mm GSh-23-2 twin-barrel cannon, four air-to-air missiles, one air-to-surface missile, as well as Mk-82, Mk-84 general purpose bombs, GBU-10, GBU-12, LT-2 laser-guided bombs, Matra Durandal anti-runway bombs, CBU-100/Mk-20 Rockeye anti-armour cluster bombs, are among the possible armament of the JF-17. (APA/Rashad Suleymanov)
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Azerbaijan intends to purchase JF-17 combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China
09:25 GMT, November 16, 2011 Baku | As Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), which displayed its products in Dubai Airshow-2011 in UAE, told APA, Azerbaijan shows interest in JF-17 Thunder combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China and announced its intention to purchase aircrafts of this type.
The JF-17 Thunder performed flight displays over the Dubai airport during the air show. Members of the Azerbaijani delegation also watched the flights.
Referring to negotiations held with Azerbaijan, company officials said that the discussions have not entered the phase of signing a contract yet. The company is currently executing the orders of the Pakistani Air Forces; the export to Azerbaijan could be realised in the upcoming years. According to the company, the negotiating parties are determining the annual amount of the possible order.
Offering a high manoeuvrability, JF-17 Thunder aircraft have the same or even superior capabilities to the MiG-29 aircraft of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. By introducing this asset into its inventory the Azerbaijani Armed Forces could increase their combat effectiveness.
PAC company officials said that Pakistan and Azerbaijan have high-level relations. Islamabad supports Baku’s positions and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and provided military assistance to the country since the very beginning. Taking these relations into consideration, there will be no problems in the sale of fighter aircraft to Azerbaijan.
According to company’s representatives, within the Pakistan-China cooperation, the production of a Block-2 version of the JF-17 Thunder will soon be launched. This model will be equipped with the newest electronic warfare systems, as well as additional weapon systems. In addition, a two-seat configuration of the aircraft is being developed.
The length of the JF-17 is 14,97 m. The aircraft has a maximum takeoff weight of 12474 kg, a combat radius of 1352 km and reaches a maximum speed of 1909 km/h.
A 23 mm GSh-23-2 twin-barrel cannon, four air-to-air missiles, one air-to-surface missile, as well as Mk-82, Mk-84 general purpose bombs, GBU-10, GBU-12, LT-2 laser-guided bombs, Matra Durandal anti-runway bombs, CBU-100/Mk-20 Rockeye anti-armour cluster bombs, are among the possible armament of the JF-17. (APA/Rashad Suleymanov)
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Azerbaijan intends to purchase combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China
15 Nov 2011 Baku. Rashad Suleymanov – APA.
Azerbaijan shows interest in JF-17 Thunder combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China and announced its intention to purchase aircrafts of this type, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex - PAC, which displayed its products in Dubai Airshow-2011 in UAE, told APA.
JF-17 Thunder showed exemplary flights over the Dubai airport within the air show. Members of the Azerbaijani delegation also watched the flights.
Reminding about the discussions held with Azerbaijan up to now, the company officials said that the discussions have not entered the phase of purchase and sale yet. Now the company is executing the orders of the Pakistan’s Air Forces, the export to Azerbaijan can be realized in the nearest years. The sides determined the annual amount of the order.
JF-17 Thunder aircrafts have the same or even superior indicators than MiG-29 aircrafts of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. The aircraft has a high maneuvering capability. By including this aircraft to the inventory Azerbaijani Armed Forces can increase its combativeness.
The company officials said that Pakistan and Azerbaijan has high level relations. Islamabad supports Baku’s positions and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and has rendered military assistance to Azerbaijan since the very beginning. Taking these relations into consideration, there will be no problems in sale of aircrafts to Azerbaijan.
According to company’s representatives, within Pakistan-China cooperation, the production of Block-2 version of JF-17 Thunder aircrafts will be started. This model will be provided with the newest e-war system, additional weapons. Besides, two-pilot model of the aircraft is being developed.
Note that the length of JF-17 Thunder is 14,97 m, maximum takeoff weight – 12474 kg, maximum speed – 1909 km/h, combat radius – 1352 km.
1 23 mm GSh-23-2 twin-barrel cannon, 4 air-to-air missiles, 1 air-to-surface missile, Mk-82, Mk-84 general purpose bombs, GBU-10, GBU-12, LT-2 laser-guided bombs, Matra Durandal anti-runway bomb, CBU-100/Mk-20 Rockeye anti-armor cluster bomb are included to the armament of JF-17 Thunder aircrafts.
APA - Azerbaijan intends to purchase combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China
15 Nov 2011 Baku. Rashad Suleymanov – APA.
Azerbaijan shows interest in JF-17 Thunder combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China and announced its intention to purchase aircrafts of this type, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex - PAC, which displayed its products in Dubai Airshow-2011 in UAE, told APA.
JF-17 Thunder showed exemplary flights over the Dubai airport within the air show. Members of the Azerbaijani delegation also watched the flights.
Reminding about the discussions held with Azerbaijan up to now, the company officials said that the discussions have not entered the phase of purchase and sale yet. Now the company is executing the orders of the Pakistan’s Air Forces, the export to Azerbaijan can be realized in the nearest years. The sides determined the annual amount of the order.
JF-17 Thunder aircrafts have the same or even superior indicators than MiG-29 aircrafts of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. The aircraft has a high maneuvering capability. By including this aircraft to the inventory Azerbaijani Armed Forces can increase its combativeness.
The company officials said that Pakistan and Azerbaijan has high level relations. Islamabad supports Baku’s positions and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and has rendered military assistance to Azerbaijan since the very beginning. Taking these relations into consideration, there will be no problems in sale of aircrafts to Azerbaijan.
According to company’s representatives, within Pakistan-China cooperation, the production of Block-2 version of JF-17 Thunder aircrafts will be started. This model will be provided with the newest e-war system, additional weapons. Besides, two-pilot model of the aircraft is being developed.
Note that the length of JF-17 Thunder is 14,97 m, maximum takeoff weight – 12474 kg, maximum speed – 1909 km/h, combat radius – 1352 km.
1 23 mm GSh-23-2 twin-barrel cannon, 4 air-to-air missiles, 1 air-to-surface missile, Mk-82, Mk-84 general purpose bombs, GBU-10, GBU-12, LT-2 laser-guided bombs, Matra Durandal anti-runway bomb, CBU-100/Mk-20 Rockeye anti-armor cluster bomb are included to the armament of JF-17 Thunder aircrafts.
APA - Azerbaijan intends to purchase combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China
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Instead of searching for shattered information on dozens of thread, let's make a central.
VIABILITY OF JF-17: Five countries in the Middle East are evaluating the JF-17 as an affordable replacement fighter at the Dubai air show, the air chief said at a press briefing hosted by PAF and China Aviation Technology Import-Export Corporation (CATIC) on the sidelines of the Dubai Air Show.
The five countries could send pilots to Pakistan to evaluate the JF-17 single-engine fighter, he said.
The CATIC is a government-owned company responsible for Chinas aerospace defence exports.
It has long been known that the Chinese armed forces have been following the JF-17 programme closely, but most industry observers have shared the view that it prefers to focus on replacing older aircraft with J-10A, J-10B and Shenyang J-11.
The PAF chief said JF-17 was two to three times cheaper than its rivals on a flyaway basis, making it economical to run.
Air Commodore Khalid Mahmood, deputy chief project director (operations) for the JF-17 programme, said there was a potential market of 4,000-5,000 aircraft as air forces were looking to replace Mikoyan Mig-21s, Mig-23s, Mig-29s and Northrop F-5s.
There is no plane that gives this much capability at this cost, Air Commodore Mahmood said. The aircraft carried out 10,000 sorties for PAF, he said. We have two active squadrons of 16-18 aircraft each. The third squadron will be activated in coming months.PPI
VIABILITY OF JF-17: Five countries in the Middle East are evaluating the JF-17 as an affordable replacement fighter at the Dubai air show, the air chief said at a press briefing hosted by PAF and China Aviation Technology Import-Export Corporation (CATIC) on the sidelines of the Dubai Air Show.
The five countries could send pilots to Pakistan to evaluate the JF-17 single-engine fighter, he said.
The CATIC is a government-owned company responsible for Chinas aerospace defence exports.
It has long been known that the Chinese armed forces have been following the JF-17 programme closely, but most industry observers have shared the view that it prefers to focus on replacing older aircraft with J-10A, J-10B and Shenyang J-11.
The PAF chief said JF-17 was two to three times cheaper than its rivals on a flyaway basis, making it economical to run.
Air Commodore Khalid Mahmood, deputy chief project director (operations) for the JF-17 programme, said there was a potential market of 4,000-5,000 aircraft as air forces were looking to replace Mikoyan Mig-21s, Mig-23s, Mig-29s and Northrop F-5s.
There is no plane that gives this much capability at this cost, Air Commodore Mahmood said. The aircraft carried out 10,000 sorties for PAF, he said. We have two active squadrons of 16-18 aircraft each. The third squadron will be activated in coming months.PPI
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As Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), which displayed its products in Dubai Airshow-2011 in UAE, told APA, Azerbaijan shows interest in JF-17 Thunder combat aircrafts jointly produced by Pakistan and China and announced its intention to purchase aircrafts of this type.
The JF-17 Thunder performed flight displays over the Dubai airport during the air show. Members of the Azerbaijani delegation also watched the flights.
Referring to negotiations held with Azerbaijan, company officials said that the discussions have not entered the phase of signing a contract yet. The company is currently executing the orders of the Pakistani Air Forces; the export to Azerbaijan could be realised in the upcoming years. According to the company, the negotiating parties are determining the annual amount of the possible order.
Offering a high manoeuvrability, JF-17 Thunder aircraft have the same or even superior capabilities to the MiG-29 aircraft of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. By introducing this asset into its inventory the Azerbaijani Armed Forces could increase their combat effectiveness.
PAC company officials said that Pakistan and Azerbaijan have high-level relations. Islamabad supports Baku’s positions and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and provided military assistance to the country since the very beginning. Taking these relations into consideration, there will be no problems in the sale of fighter aircraft to Azerbaijan.
According to company’s representatives, within the Pakistan-China cooperation, the production of a Block-2 version of the JF-17 Thunder will soon be launched. This model will be equipped with the newest electronic warfare systems, as well as additional weapon systems. In addition, a two-seat configuration of the aircraft is being developed.
The length of the JF-17 is 14,97 m. The aircraft has a maximum takeoff weight of 12474 kg, a combat radius of 1352 km and reaches a maximum speed of 1909 km/h.
A 23 mm GSh-23-2 twin-barrel cannon, four air-to-air missiles, one air-to-surface missile, as well as Mk-82, Mk-84 general purpose bombs, GBU-10, GBU-12, LT-2 laser-guided bombs, Matra Durandal anti-runway bombs, CBU-100/Mk-20 Rockeye anti-armour cluster bombs, are among the possible armament of the JF-17.
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exporting jft will increase the jft budget and hence we can spend more on new blocks and get a more better block
though i think we wont get a serious buyer before 2014-15.
at present these are only interests
though i think we wont get a serious buyer before 2014-15.
at present these are only interests
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Buying of fighter a/c requires a lot of input from various angles:
1. Performance parameters dovetailing with ones particular requirment
2. Pricing direct and any offsets.
3. Operating costs over the life of the equipment including induction costs like training etc.
4. Spares support
5. Investment in the project by the manufacturing country -- the likelyhood of upgrades etc.
6. Capability to absorb the current weapons and those in the in the near future.
7. Relations with the mfg. country.
8. Proven Performance if availble, in combat, -- that is why these mfg's., love wars.
etc.
This requires a lot of time and evaluation. I do not see things happening before the next two years.
1. Performance parameters dovetailing with ones particular requirment
2. Pricing direct and any offsets.
3. Operating costs over the life of the equipment including induction costs like training etc.
4. Spares support
5. Investment in the project by the manufacturing country -- the likelyhood of upgrades etc.
6. Capability to absorb the current weapons and those in the in the near future.
7. Relations with the mfg. country.
8. Proven Performance if availble, in combat, -- that is why these mfg's., love wars.
etc.
This requires a lot of time and evaluation. I do not see things happening before the next two years.
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this ''least cost slogan'' is a sales pitch and i think the minister instead of concentrating on the words ''effective, capable'' stressed more on the word ''cheap'' or atleast was potrayed by the press like this
-- this price doesnt include weapons, training, spareparts and includes god knows what relatively downgraded avionics package so as to get some profit margin from it aswell in that meagre 25mil price tag
-- i doubt that the 'good' export variants would be under 25mil , considering the blk2 would roughly cost the paf in this range on a no profit/no loss basis
-- this price doesnt include weapons, training, spareparts and includes god knows what relatively downgraded avionics package so as to get some profit margin from it aswell in that meagre 25mil price tag
-- i doubt that the 'good' export variants would be under 25mil , considering the blk2 would roughly cost the paf in this range on a no profit/no loss basis
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