Your immature assumptions aside- China choose not to add this aircraft,
Offcourse China won't add JF-17 in their fleet because their doctrine is not suitable for a "light combat aircraft" ...How mentally challenged you have to be to not understand this point?
Let me cut it down, even if U.S had made the best "light combat aircraft" and offered it to China, Chinese won't have it in their fleet because again, "light combat aircraft" does not fit into their battle-doctrine.
For multi-purpose role, Chinese already have J-10s which aren't light weight and goes well with rest of Chinese fleet of J-11Bs, J-16s etc.
Same is the reason of USAF not adding the most sophisticated F-16s to their fleet..not b/c aircraft is not good...but because it doesn't go along with U.S battle-doctrine of the present.
But again, your little mind can't comprehend things like "light combat aircraft" and "doctrine" and the relation between weapons deployment and "doctrine"...
which they themselves produced because they know it is a 3 + gen caliber aircraft. J-17 is not even a medium tier aircraft, let alone proclaiming block 1 would be superior to any F16's you have. .
Your mother gave you too much cow-cola in the childhood, I guess.
3+ generation? Yes, by "chinese designation" ..JF-17 is a 3+ generation aircraft...but if you are talking with reference to European designation..then only a indian hindu (hint: "cow"
) would say that.
Funny thing is, even
Indian military professionals and senior members here on this forum accept JF-17 to be a 4th generation (+) fighter aircraft right up there with previous F-16 versions. May be the certain cola your mother gave you in childhood made you a better man for military knowledge than your own military professionals who have served your nation in the armed forces and relation military departments
JF-17 has a combat range of 1352km, payload capacity of more than 4,000kg, incorporates FBW system, multi-mode pulse dropper radar with the standard range of 105km (next version will have 135km as standard range
), BVR capability, Stand-off nuclear weapons are being integrated on JF-17...and has more "composites" on its airframe than F-15 incorporates on its airframe....yet its a 3rd generation aircraft? Can't digest the reality of Pakistan hitting a golden hen in SUCH less price, eh?
According to PAF, when JF-17 projected was started, it had certain 'goals'..JF-17 project has longgggg exceeded those goals and even PAF is pleasantly surprised how well that project has turned out to be for Pakistan. It actually got a higher kill ratio against F-16s in some certain settings..but then again, you won't absorb that information because that kills your insecure self..afterall, indian project..tejas..turned out to be such a spectacular failure
Note: Standard radar range = Range of the radar against an enemy aircraft of 5m^2 RCS (I know you are toooooo under-qualified to understand all of this..but give it a try using google)
You make whole lot cheerleading proclamations here...BUT as the saying goes- You can put lipstick on pig but it still is a pig
Yeah...same as you can give all the evidence and data to a cow-piss drinker, but he remains an illiterate under the influence of cow-piss he drank all his life as a devout hindu.
Oscar, I'm not sure I follow the analogy either. India bought the MKI to gain knowledge and to enhance their local aerospace industry (I'm assuming for the price they're paying, they better be building it locally). I'm sure they'd have bought 300 or more of the latest MIG's if the MKI's weren't on the table. On the other hand, the Chinese won't use the JF17's because it offers them very little advantage over their rust-bucket relics. The proof is in the pudding.
If the JF-17 were a capable 4.5 generation aircraft @ 15 million a piece, don't you think the Chinese would spend the extra 4.5 billion or so to replace their 300 or so old relics still lying around? 4.5 billion dollars for the Chinese is like pocket change.
This tells me that the Chinese don't think too highly of the JF-17 (I mean they won't even replace their J-7's and J-8's with them). Which is why I'm kinda perplexed by all the posters here comparing the JF-17 to F16's, they're not even in the same league in my opinion.
JF-17 is not a "true" 4.5 generation fighter aircraft...It is a 4th generation+ aircraft. It is a full, complete 4th generation aircraft with some additional technologies that 4th generation fighters didn't have...
And China already have a 4.5 generation fighter with AESA, and IRST etc...thats J-10B..that is why China is not buying JF-17 because they already have a 'cure' for their doctrine...a better 'cure' than JF-17 since JF-17 is a light weight combat aircraft, which doesn't really fit into Chinese fleet of J-11Bs, J-10s, and J-20 in future...J-10B makes a perfect 'augmentation' plane for existing and planned Chinese fleet.
Hope this clarifies things.
