Fact : 1> No PAF Personal or any responsible person from Pakistan side ever compared the JF-17 with the likes of Tejas as simply there's no comparison between an aircraft serving in some six operational squadrons, being flown out and displayed in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia, has participated in international exercises, regularly carries out combat duties and even has an air-to-air kill to it's credit. It's also won export orders.
So?
Every pakistani poster here resorts to the same strawman argument.
So what if JF-17 has more planes flying, how does that translate to it being better than Tejas?
Maybe have the gall to fly JF-17 in the same air show as the Tejas and try not run away at the last moment after seeing IAF fly their indigenous machine, then talk about how you have flown in oh so many airshows.
Also, the first air to air kill of JF-17 is a drone flown by Iran, maybe your military will finally gather their courage and American drones will get the same treatment from JF-17s as they operate inside your territory and once in a while kill your citizens.............NOT.
Fact : 2> The Indians from the IAF Air chief and every Prem, Preety & Patli have to repeatedly mention the JF-17 and exaggerate the capabilities of Tejas just to feel good and convince the Indian public, as they say proof is in the pudding, forget all the fancy gadget details or what role each aircraft will play, the fact is Tejas made it's maiden flight much earlier than the JF-17....however the JF-17 first appeared in public by flying a short display on Pakistan Day parade 2007 where as until 2016, the Tejas had to be dragged on a trailer.
What's there to compare. !!!
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Another strawman argument.
JF-17 is free from comparison and is somehow better than Tejas because it flew in a parade before Tejas? That's the proofs and puddings you can come up with? What nonsense.
JF-17 was inducted earlier because Americans weren't selling you their F-16s, you didn't have enough money and you needed cheap filler aircrafts to maintain some semblance of numbers in a dwindling air force, as compared to IAF which was regularly inducting Su-30s, MiG-29s and Mirage 2000s, hence you inducted a fighter which wasn't even ready and is yet to have subsystems which were made mandatory for Tejas for its initial induction.
Maybe you are asking people to ignore about the various subsystems in Tejas vs the JF-17 is because you already know how they fare, or maybe you can tell us which part exactly is exaggerated?