Five countries in the Middle East are evaluating the JF-17: Pakistan

[Lankan Ranger]

Five countries in the Middle East are evaluating the JF-17: Pakistan

Five countries in the Middle East are evaluating the JF-17 as an affordable replacement fighter alongside China's Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).

The sales opportunities for the programme were described by the head of the Pakistan air force, Air Chief Marshall Rao Qamar Suleman. He was speaking at a press briefing hosted by the PAF and the China Aviation Technology/Import-Export Corporation (CATIC), the government-owned company responsible for Beijing's aerospace defence exports.

He added that the five countries could send pilots to Pakistan to evaluate the single-engine fighter.

He also said he visited the PLAAF in China recently, where he discussed the programme with his Chinese counterparts.

DUBAI: China, Pakistan tout affordability of JF-17

 

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Already discussed in Dubai Airshow Thread.....Mods please merge the threads...

 

[Saifullah Sani]

Pakistan and China have already created a joint marketing organization to promote the JF-17

 

[MUHARIB]

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.

 

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[Imran Khan]

good good good move on dear jf-17