A major advantage the J11B has over the SU27SK is it's impressive A2G capability. It's a nice match for our air force no doubt, but China is having cost and training issues related to this platform. Why I don't know, but it's a big step for China to make this on their own, a plane that can compete with the latest F-15's. China is also developing J11C naval variant btw.
i guss , real logical thing to do is to mix up our current inventry, with 60 J11b's, 60 J-10's and the remaining F-16's , i think, it can be a deadly combination.
what we, need to understand here is, our needs to our air defences in comming future, if our policy makers think's , USA will give us more F-16's then , i would be thinking of thier madness or guss crouption, the kickbacks they can get from the F-16's deal.
J-11B's are not a medium tech. aircrafts they have enough qualities to be in our inventry, but the real problum is the obssesion of F-16's in pakistani nation, & its became our weekness, which uncle sam uses often.
J-11B
In mid-2002, SAC revealed its intention to build an upgraded multirole version of the J-11 by revealing a mock-up aircraft carrying various types of air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. Russian sources also confirmed that SAC was pursuing a multirole variant of the J-11 with much greater Chinese-made content. This variant was designated J-11B.
An indigenous multifunctional pulse-Doppler fire-control radar reportedly capable of tracking 6~8 targets and engaging 4 of them simultaneously;
An indigenous digital flight-control system;
A Chinese copy of the Russian OEPS-27 electro-optic search and tracking system;
A strapdown INS/GPS navigation system;
A ‘glass’ cockpit featuring four colour multifunctional displays (MFD) and a wide-angle holographic head-up display (HUD);
The aircraft could carry the Chinese-made PL-8 IR-homing SRAAM and PL-12 (SD-10) active radar-homing MRAAM for air-to-air combat. While the PLAAF currently has the capability for two-target engagement using the Su-27/-30 and R-77 (AA-12 Adder) combination, successful integration of the PL-12 on the J-11B would likely provide a genuine multi-target engagement capability. The J-11B is also expected to have enhanced air-to-surface attack capabilities with the indigenous precision strike ammunitions such as LT-2 laser-guided bomb, the LS-6 precision-guided glide bomb, the YJ-91 (Kh-31P) anti-radiation missile, and the KD-88 air-to-surface missile.
During the 6th Zhuhai Air Show held between 31 October and 5 November 2006, China revealed first official details about the indigenously developed WS-10A ‘Tai Hang’ turbofan engine. The engine had already been successfully tested on a modified Su-27K fighter and possibly on some J-11 airframes too. The engine is understood to be similar to the Russian Lyulka-Saturn AL-31F turbofan engine in both technology and performance. However, it is unclear whether the WS-10A has already been fitted on the ‘indigenised’ variant of the J-11.
look at some of details, that is good enough for us,about traning we, have to do this, just like we did with f-16's, i am , very sure about the training , that our airmans, technical staff could do it in the shotest given time.
but all this , & thats , if's are the basic hurdlles which were put in by some vested intersts, for vested reasons are stopping pakistan airforce, to disinttegrete itself from the unloyal, untrusted, & back sttabbing uncle sam.
i am 100% sure of the fact, that once the so called "war on terror" is over, there will be no one thinking about us, same thing , uncle sam did with us in 80's.