Anyways, it's high time we Pakistanis get our heads out of the sand.
You take one look at the Indian sub-forum, and you'll see them working on hypersonic glide vehicles, drones, their own FGFA (with clear proof of design work, wind-tunnel testing, etc), and many of the inputs. Likewise, they have foreign companies willing to enter and compete for Indian experts (which, ironically, might be the only thing now to slow India from advancing its own work -- brain drain).
I don't know why we can't just accept the facts and think critically.
This habit of playing ourselves up while blindly discounting India over ridiculously little things (like nabbing pigeons or tiny diplomatic shortfalls) is killing us. It's embarrassing, childish and shameful behavior.
We don't have our own equivalent to CAG to inquire why we bought VT4s from China while HIT is rolling out under capacity, or why the expertise for flight control tech wasn't built when we started the Super-7 program, etc.
Instead, when anyone questions it and brings a contrarian point-of-view, we get emotional outbursts that parrot a narrative, but are absent of any real facts.
I hate to say it, but day by day, Pakistan is seeming less like an actual country, and more of an uncle's club for wasting public funds and selling lies.
1 of 2 outcomes:
1. We signed onto the FC-31/J-35, and will manufacture a % of the fighter in Pakistan. The critical stuff (electronics, etc) will be built by Chinese companies in Pakistan, while the rest we'll cover. And we'll export these parts back to China for use by the PLAAF and/or PLAN as an offset agreement.
2. It's an original design, but the Chinese will set-up shop at SEZs to supply the inputs (including engine, radar, etc) drawing on as much local content as possible. And re-export those inputs back to China.