Deino
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The fact that PAC has not moved to full manufacture of the airframe is very dissappointing for sure. While there is a commercial contract in place, this is for each block and PAF should have moved to full airframe assembly in Pakistan by now through one of the blocks. I am not sure what/why there is indeed a holdup on this front.
Probably simply since there are other reasons that the will of some forumers!
These might be industrial - and as such financial - considerations in the way that CAC/AVIC heavily invested a lot in this project regardless a true PLAAF request and as such a co-production of certain important components might result in some sort of cash-flow back to China. If Pakistan had paid more, a full technological transfer and full local production might have been possible.
But as I said ... just an idea.