Windjammer
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Actually reading through your saffron glasses, everything will surely sound incredible to you least the fact that apart from France which has thrown in some Jaguars in the Rafale deal, you are not exactly being generous by having to purchase them from Oman and UK......and i wont even bring up how the Indians were ridiculing Pakistani purchase of Mirages from Australia and others, as for turning green, we all know how the GOI protested to Australia over the sale of those old aircraft and more recently, only 8 aircraft were causing your kind to sh** bricks....but hey on PDF we are all high and mighty.....then again where else would you go to make all the noise.So you are saying we can't make spares, but we can make a Jaguar nearly from scratch without OEM support, but can't maintain the aircraft?
Yes, we are buying used aircraft to cannibalise it for spares, but that's because we are getting them for free. And the imported Jaguars will serve very well as a spares pool and drastically reduce our revenue spending on a very large fleet of aircraft. For example, we don't have to buy new engines for the old Jaguars that are not getting an engine upgrade, so we've saved a large amount of money there.
The usefulness of the imported Jaguars is too great for you to fathom, but the imports have nothing to do with our ability to maintain and produce the spares of the aircraft by ourselves.
All I see is a person turning green looking at what we can do even with our oldest aircraft.