too expensive to buy with own money and no benefits to local manufacturing industry.. we should buy something that can boast up our manufacturing capability.. but these may turn into just dreams in reality.
Chinese have two new enignes now... WZ-16 and WZ-10 if they can integrate these at the request of Pakistan then it might be a mutually beneficial experiment.. we will also learn from the experience.. i only wonder why pakistan never request these kinds of changes to Chinese.. we are going to...
then z-10 is the only option left... too bad we cant put a gattling gun on it. Its hard to believe that Z-10 cant perform in high altitude conditions. we have seen them operating in tibet region far too many times... hot and desert conditions may be true but this isn't something that cant be...
If Turkish are working on their own engine and then why cant Pakistan have T129 Modified with Safran Ardiden... chinese have WZ-16 engine based on it. this can be a backup plan if turkish engine does not go ahead as planned... the T129 is too sweet a deal to let go by that easily..
The same camouflage is used by cyprus airforce MI35, we were getting MI 35s for ANF, why would there be a PAF roundel above the red button thing..
i am just skeptic thats all