I have checked the links about this JF-17. It is a news in a Bangladesh defence Blog that says of FC-1. Then Asia Defence pasted the news in 2011 it said it is JF-17. Since it is already November 2012, therefore, the rumour about FC-1 (not JF-17 that Asia Defence says) has no value any more. BAF has already ordered and purchased F-7BGIs which are good enough planes fo our present needs.
BAF is getting 16 units of YAK-130 training planes which BAF will use to train their pilots before it will purchase any 4.5 generation planes. New planes could be J-10 from China under a $800 million credit, or either Mig-29SMT or Sukhoi MK2 under a Russian $850 million credit. J-10s are fitted with very strong Russian engines.
If China thought FC-1 is a good platform it would not have gone after a new J-10 platform. Note also China never says about FC-1 if its airforce will induct this plane. As far as I know FC-1 production has stopped or slow because China does not judge this platform a good and stable one. China is after J-10 and J-20, a stealth fighter. But, here posters from BD always speak about some expensive toys that will only hurt the defence and the country in the long run.
BAF is getting 16 units of YAK-130 training planes which BAF will use to train their pilots before it will purchase any 4.5 generation planes. New planes could be J-10 from China under a $800 million credit, or either Mig-29SMT or Sukhoi MK2 under a Russian $850 million credit. J-10s are fitted with very strong Russian engines.
If China thought FC-1 is a good platform it would not have gone after a new J-10 platform. Note also China never says about FC-1 if its airforce will induct this plane. As far as I know FC-1 production has stopped or slow because China does not judge this platform a good and stable one. China is after J-10 and J-20, a stealth fighter. But, here posters from BD always speak about some expensive toys that will only hurt the defence and the country in the long run.