abdulbarijan
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I will just post what I said in other thread:
India will never allow any sale of major defence equipment by Pakistan to India's neighbours(excluding China but obviously China will never buy from Pakistan).
Only reason India allowed sale of K-8s and MBT-2000s to Myanmar and Bangladesh is because they were manufactured and exported by China with no Pakistani involvement in the deals.
Pakistan is not even involved in the maintenance of these systems in those two nations.
The reason India is opposed to such deals is because Pakistani exports could lead permanent basing of Pakistanis in these nations for maintenance and training etc.
Out of the 7 original South asian states ... except Pakistan and India ... only 2 other nations possess a proper airforce .. which would be the Bangladesh airforce (BAF), the Srilankan airforce --
For BAF:-
-Out of a total of around 50 fighter aircrafts of BAF 40 are different versions of the Chinese J-7's ...
-Out of a total of around 50 primary and advanced trainer aircraft of different origins, a total of 31 are from Chinese origin (PT-6 and K-8)
For SLAF:-
-Out of a total 22 combat aircrafts, 7 are Chinese J-7's .
-Out of a total of 7 trainer aircrafts, 6 are of Chinese origin (K-8 + FT-7)
If you want to consider Myanmer then for Myanmar airforce :-
-Out of a total of around 55-60 combat aircrafts for Myanmar airforce, 25-30 are of Chinese origin (J-7/ J-6 and Q-5)
-Out of a total of 50-60 trainer aircrafts for Myanmar around 18-20 are Chinese (while another order for Chinese origin trainers i.e K-8 is already in the process of delivery)
So, time to wake up from the India "allowing" other nations to do XYZ day dreams, because as it stands India couldn't stop ANY of its neighboring smaller nations to rely on Chinese equipment ... The setback for FC-1/JFT if true, is only a matter of time ... as stated before, if the deal is to have free of cost Mig-27's delivered to the SLAF, its just a matter of time when the need arises for a newer capable fighter to replace the obsolete fighter which is quite crash prone ... then it'll be back to square one for Indian lobbyists as FC-1/JFT would automatically move back in to the consideration set of the SLAF ...
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