I think Iran shouldn't take the bait and forget this integrity thing for a while. Just so that ordinary Iranian civilians dont suffer like Iraqi civilians.
Iran is really in a tight corner now.
Conventionally, it is in a compromised position against US and Israel.
If it decides to play its proxies against US assets in the region that too would prompt a conventional response from the US which would ultimately force Iran to blunder and go...
Wasn't the initial impetus for joint venture a little bit of self reliance and maintain numbers of modern aircraft? I think it's still the same and PAF doesn't dictate requirements to the Chinese. At the end of the day, they know that the world doesn't sell us many critical technologies and a...
Sure. If what he's saying is true then he is goof enough to be trusted on these matters. But he must understand that there are many wanna be experts on such forums and they pretend to be insiders when they are not. They pass on 'inside' information with much confidence and then it discussed on...
JF 17 is not going to be pitched in front of those who can easily afford better western alternatives. They will definitely see a hundred issues with this aircraft.
But at the end of the day, out of the 200 odd countries on this planet, many are going to face the finanicial/political hurdles...
I agree that these errors in product finish mustn't be there but it's clear that you are only referring to the terms 'design' and 'build quality' from a layman's perspective and not how they're understood in manufacturing.
Again, how are you analyzing aerodynamic paraneters with your naked eye...
Pardon me if I'm wrong about you but I think by 'design' you actually mean 'aesthetics' which would imply that you dont have an idea about engineering design and only unhappy because the aircraft doesn't look beautiful and 'pregnant' and ugly as you said. Beauty is very relative and I agree that...
What is the key contribution of Pak in building JFT? We all say it's 58% Pak.
But are the core operations we are able/unable to perform in the process?
Then by that logic JFT should have 4 times less number of hardpoints than Rafale. Get rid of those extra hardpoints/extra AAMs and their drag then!
This line of thinking would only be plausible if all IAF had was 4 times less number of Rafales then our JFTs. These same Jeffs have to take on...
There are people who were expecting nothing from blk3 and then there are those who were going overboard in expectations and wanting it to be South Asia's F-35.
But in between there were innocent reasonable people like me..who just wanted perhaps an HMD/HOBS capability, an IRST, a robust EW...
It's not about how many jets you can hypothetically upgrade to blk 3 standards. It's about what a blk 3 standard has to offer against the likes of MKI and Rafale.