Sure could work out for low-threat and home air defense scenarios.
We buy everything else from China.
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Graeme
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$16B AUD for AIR 6000 - assuming $6B for sustainment, gives $10B for Acquistion at a price of $30m each gives over 300 aircraft, enough for 12 combat coded squadrons of 24 aircraft each. (Whoo hoo)
Now can we just fit them with AIM9x, SNIPER pods, etc....
When plan to purchase Western radar and avionics was shelved China delivered the first fighters with full Chinese systems and they turned out to be very good!
From a nation flying Block 52 vipers this is high praise and it explains why there are several hundred now on order.
JF-17 problem lies in its russian origin engine. Once it has chinese, which pakistan can license make, then it's entirely different story. JF-17 would be a very good low cost proposal. Otherwise, it's dealing with russian export license.
I agree that China needs to start building its own engines both for this plane and many others.
Surprisingly the Russian's have signed a contract to provide another 500 engines for the JF-17 which will cover all the aircraft for Pakistan and others.
Recently I've heard that there is a squadron of JF-17's in testing in China which to this point has favored building J-10's over the "Thunder".
In the background there are rumors that a new version will have some stealth characteristic's...
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$16B AUD for AIR 6000 - assuming $6B for sustainment, gives $10B for Acquistion at a price of $30m each gives over 300 aircraft, enough for 12 combat coded squadrons of 24 aircraft each. (Whoo hoo)
Now can we just fit them with AIM9x, SNIPER pods, etc....
When plan to purchase Western radar and avionics was shelved China delivered the first fighters with full Chinese systems and they turned out to be very good!
From a nation flying Block 52 vipers this is high praise and it explains why there are several hundred now on order.
http://www.jf-17.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cockpit4.jpg
http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/3231/medium/PAF-JF-17-thunder-farnborough2010-002.jpg
JF-17 problem lies in its russian origin engine. Once it has chinese, which pakistan can license make, then it's entirely different story. JF-17 would be a very good low cost proposal. Otherwise, it's dealing with russian export license.
I agree that China needs to start building its own engines both for this plane and many others.
Surprisingly the Russian's have signed a contract to provide another 500 engines for the JF-17 which will cover all the aircraft for Pakistan and others.
Recently I've heard that there is a squadron of JF-17's in testing in China which to this point has favored building J-10's over the "Thunder".
In the background there are rumors that a new version will have some stealth characteristic's...
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/184/jf17cs9.jpg/
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