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Oh bhai when you dont know any thing dont put your nose in any matter ,please read first then comment .JF17 was designed keeping in mind replacing the A5s,F7s and MiragesThis is no irony here. You just cant replace an ol' Hilux pickup with a new Corolla. Both serve their own purposes. One country might be exporting one of them but still importing the other, there stand no contradictions.
US and Europe for instance though producing Boeings and Airbuses respectively still import the Embraers and Bombardiers from Brazil and Canada when they have no similar product in their own portfolio. It doesnt signal any irony on their part.
JF-17 and Mirages stand to serve two different purposes. JF-17 cant do Mirages' job as good and vice versa.
Egypt if it ever decides to buy the JF-17 wouldnt do it to replace its mirages, it would rather do it to fill the gap of a light multirole fighter to build up numbers quickly and cost effectively.
The PAC JF-17 Thunder (Urdu: جے ایف-١٧ گرج), or CAC FC-1 Xiaolong (pinyin: Xiāo Lóng; lit.: 'Fierce Dragon'), is a lightweight, single-engine, multi-role combat aircraft developed jointly by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) of China. It was designed to replace the A-5C, F-7P/PG, Mirage III, and Mirage V combat aircraft in the Pakistan Air Force.