Featured Project Azm: Pakistan's Ambitious Quest to Develop 5th Generation Military Technologies.

[FuturePAF]

VTOL aircraft could be used by our navy. Our navy is rapidly expanding and is going to have many major ships. They could possibly make or buy a light carrier similar to what Turkey is making and they can have VTOL stealth fighters on it. Looking at how our navy is growing I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a light carrier.

That would be too costly, and VTOL aircraft compromise on maneuverability and range and weapons payload. Better to have more land based fighter with long range at spread out bases along the coast. Unless the doctrine changes to the point the PN has to police much further out.

 

[Trango Towers]

There is wishful thinking and then there is ground realities. For a 5th Gen fighter rather any fighter u need an industrial base where we lack far far more than we actually perceive. We are unable to run a steel mill and we are talking about highest grade parts for an aircraft.
Yes we can make softwares where we can excel but beyond that it's a dead end..

People like you should stop trying to better yourself as you will need to be white to do anything

 

[MastanKhan]

Wishful thinking is what gets you places. If you aim small you’ll get nothing. If you aim big even if you achieve 20% of that it’s better then aiming small. If our goal is just making softwares we’ll be stuck at that and never excel. If our goal is making a whole 5th Gen fighter jet even if we achieve 20% of that even if project azm horribly fails we’ll still experience and learn far more then if we aimed small and stuck to doing what we already know. Allah Azzawajal helps the people who try. We should try our best put our most effort into it and the rest is up to Allah Azzawajal. Never aim small always aim big and have ambitious goals.

Hi,

You are talking from a position of in-experience. Wishful thinking gets you nowhere---. Wishful thinking is what it is---wishful thinking---.

Someone has taught you wrong---. You neither have the time to learn nor do you have the funds to fail.

Aim within your resources---JF17 is a result of that---. Nuclear program is a result of that---the Babur cruise missile is a result of that---.

Time is the biggest enemy.

 

[python-000]

 

[Abid123]

IF that the case first Pakistan should have their source code and i think Pakistani will get some of sub systems but not whole J-31 Project

Yeah I guess that's the case.

 

[python-000]

 

[Deino]

Pakistan is probably holding out till the TFX comes out and matures a little to decide between the two. Waiting to see if the TFX features anything unique and decisive.

Maybe the PAF is also waiting to see if the Single Engine Chinese VTOL fighter develops, could consider a conventional variant (basically a single engine J-20) to save on costs and be able to afford it in large numbers.

There is no single engined VTOL fighter under development at CAC

 

[Muhammad Saftain Anjum]

current proposed design

Can you share that proposed design??

 

[FuturePAF]

Can you share that proposed design??

Google Search J-18 or J-19. There hasn’t been talk recently on the topic, just like J-31 was on the back burner until the subsystems matured enough to revive the project.

 

[Deino]

Google Search J-18 or J-19. There hasn’t been talk recently on the topic, just like J-31 was on the back burner until the subsystems matured enough to revive the project.

again … there is no VTOL fighter under development at CAC and even more it is surely not a J-18 or J-19, these designations are wrong and most of all this very old FAS-link!

forget that all.

 

[FuturePAF]

again … there is no VTOL fighter under development at CAC and even more it is surely not a J-18 or J-19, these designations are wrong and most of all this very old FAS-link!

forget that all.

Alright. Yeah, best to ignore unless and if something official pop up up again.

 

[PanzerKiel]

Project Azm is "officially" dead and discarded. We are now in collaboration with another country for a similar aircraft.

 

[Tornado23]

Project Azm is "officially" dead and discarded. We are now in collaboration with another country for a similar aircraft.

Wait what? Why?

 

[Riz]

Project Azm is "officially" dead and discarded. We are now in collaboration with another country for a similar aircraft.

Good move, just get a ready made design from turkey or china and customized it with made in Pakistan or any 3rd party avionics, weapons, radar , EW suit , sensors etc

 

[PanzerKiel]

Wait what? Why?

The team, the group of officers, once they went out, no one took up this project to continue as it should have been,