:raise:When you are talking about China, you need to know there are two Chinas exist in the world, one is Republic of China and the other is People's Republic of China. Which China are you referring to?
You cannot call a 1998 version of Ford Focus a basic platform, they don't make it anymore. And to give it a price is even more ridiculous.
F16 A/B is not a basic platform today, only F16 C/D is.
You are an optimistic guy that's all right. But I think any person with a reasonable mind will know that to believe SAC can make money out of this fifth generation fighter which most potential buyer is still the third world country is way too optimistic. Unlike JF-17 which use all mature...
Why you people lived in the States so care about PAF? Why do you not ask more money for your people's food, water, education, security and economy? Are you really a patriot? Or are you only care about your own face? Wake up! It's not PAF so desperately need more Su-30s which it cannot afford...
I think the main problem here is CAC's lack of money (or just for economic reason) to make enough prototypes for testing and other works (because, as we all know, the FC-1 project is not sponsored by PLAAF). So, at first, they had to send both Pt-04 and Pt-06 to Pakistan for evaluation...
From where do you read that Pt-06 use a different radar?!
Pt-04 and Pt-06 both made their first flight in 2006. So you tell me why they can solve the so called avionics problems on Pt-06 but can't do the same thing on those much newer planes from the first Squadron?
He means the figure 249m/s is a little too low....
The max rate of climb at sea level for Mirage2000 is 285 m/s, J-10 above 280 m/s. So JF-17's RoC performance is not great.