Rajput_Pakistani
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Thank you for that post, but I would be willing to wager that that 33 year old PW and airframe can put a pair of missiles backed by decent avionics and enough fuel to do the job from brakes off to 40,000 feet faster than the JF-17, or put twice as much ordnance in ground targets with greater accuracy, other things being equal.
Great as the JF-17 is, it has a weak engine, not enough internal fuel and cobbled together avionics. It will take some time to develop into a platform fit for this century rather than the last.
No offence intended or implied, Sir.
Your posts are not backed by any concrete logic. Why are you comparing a MMRCA with a Light weight Fighter? Both classes are different, so no comparison.
There is one thing which is called US Military Aid. USA will never allow its funds to be transferred to other programs, as many posters here are trying to say, that what if we have spent this money to produce more JF17s, which is behind schedule due to lack of finances.
PAF guys out there are more smart then any one of us keyboard intellectuals. No one here knows, where do Thunders fits in the grand operational objectives of PAF? One thing is for sure that F16s MLU are for different role, Block52 for different. The squadron raised from Ex-Jordanian F16 may be used to peace time ops, while saving critical hours on expensive Block52. We also dont know yet what PAF is intending to future upgrade of these planes.
We also know one thing for sure, that our Mirage/F7 fleet is fast depleting. So what if we get 13 used F16s, which even in current state are far superior to Mirages and F7s?
I dont think anything is wrong here. Finance of projects with China and projects with USA are completely different heads. We cant intermingle them even if we want too.