We all know why JF-17 backed out of the Bahrain airshow at the last minute when you lot saw that Tejas too was about to perform, so lets not kid ourselves.
This is what the PAC website says.
"Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) holds the exclusive rights of
58% of JF-17 airframe co-production work."
That's the airframe not the components inside, so think twice about lying.
And if you are confused because of that echo chamber you have locked yourself into, here, from the PAC website.
This is all you "make".
http://www.pac.org.pk/products
You are selling to other countries because China is allowing you.
You can keep saying the same thing but we are already scaling up production.
It won't always be 3 in a year, also its 5 Tejas since induction that are flying and which have done upwards of 600 sorties.
HAL has initiated the investment of 1331 crore into ramping up production to 16 Tejas a year.
You telling me its "forced" when new production facilities are being opened and crores are being spent?
You are just deluding yourself into believing that Tejas is a failure when everything related to Tejas right about now is picking up speed, I would have almost believed you 3-4 years ago but now is a completely different story.
A Tejas flew 6 days ago and as a special gift to piss you off, another Tejas will fly before new year.
This is the Indian content in Tejas name a few of yours?
Tejas had a dual seat variant long before JFT.
Also Arjuns
WERE not operational,
NOW THEY ARE & THAT IS FACT.
And that only happened because of lack of spare parts not because Arjuns suddenly broke down.
And that happened because the army wouldn't order more which as we have already seen is keen to make Arjun fail even when Arjuns are better than T90s(AS PROVEN IN TRIALS), and all of this results in DRDO not scaling up production units, and hence we have to import.
However you needn't worry IA is yet to give upon Arjun, IA's EME corp is specifically working with DRDO to reduce weight and the like.
High Nitrogen Steel, aluminium and other alloyed materials, etc are already being employed as we speak to make Arjun better than it already is.
But keep living in denial we will keep bettering ourselves.
LOL come back when you have the Al-Khalid engine.
Al-Khalid is nothing more than an MBT-2000 copy.
We already make our Arjun engines in house.
The effort to indigenisation becomes clear when you look at the future projects initiated by both our countries.
We have offsets with Dassault to complete the final stages of Kaveri engine, we are making the Uttam AESA radars, etc. Same with Arjun; new 1500HP engine for the Arjun Mk2, and other related systems.
Not that you'll accept it in front of Indians but you know deep down that since you have no actual plans to make such systems you are not actually making anything, you are just importing with utter duplicity just calling it "joint-venture".
We on the other hand are attempting and eventually succeeding.