Past Pakistani governments has done a wonderful job under all the challenges, with jf-17. But could you fly this plane without Chinese support? On the other hand, how realistic is it to make Pakistani aviation entirely within the Chinese infrastructure in the future ?
If we talk about current fighter ; Forgive my ignorance bu what belong completly to Pakistan such as mainframe design, CAD and CAE, testing, analysis and verification, material engineering?
Im just ask, What rate of Pak avionics in the JF-17 project ? Who prepared the core architecture... Who wrote the FBW, who designed the mission computer ... Who gave the radar? Where is the origin of decision support systems and softwares, well who is provider such as HMD in near future? Where was the design of ECM and DAS subsytems ? Where were its electro-optical productions made? Where did the targeting systems come from?
What about Propulsion and fuel system? And weaponary?
The point here is not Turkey's direct participation in the Pakistan projects. The issue is that Pakistan creates resource diversity. This will be German-Pak colobration , or would be Russia, or Iran, does not matter. all just about details and gains.
It may not seen as a problem for you to want to make all your aviation capacity connected to a single state with all its strategic areas. However, I personally think that this will have long-term effects from Pakistan's national interests to reelpolitics.
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You can see Turkey's capacity is small, no problem. Turkey's current backlog and the reasons why didnt need main-body designs until 2009-2010 , not the subject of this title. In short, I want to say that what Turkey made mistake in the past, its same with prevailing opinion here.