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Can anyone tell me PAF to get that fighter.
They already are. In 2014 I think the PAF is going to start purchasing J-10Bs.
Only the basic shape is copied.
Most other subsystems in J-11B, radar, avionics, materials, RCS etc is superior to MKK2.
That's right. The Su-27 airframe is superb so it makes a great testbed for indigenous radars and avionics. I still think that the primary reason the PLA risked confrontations with the Russians to develop the J-11 is that the PLA must end its dependency on Russian munitions/engines. Just look at what happened to Argentina during the Falkland Wars when the French stopped selling the Exocets!
I read somewhere that in PLAAF combat exercises, the basic J-10A was able to defeat Su-27 and MKK, so J-10A is good enough - some say that it's comparable to F-16C/D blk 52.
The results of the exercise came as a great shock to the PLA. The J-10As were on the "Blue", or the "enemy", side of the Red-Blue Exercise since their stats/attributes closesly matched those of the F-16. This is also one of the reasons (the other being the introduction of J-11B) why PLAAF stopped importing the Su-30s, at least for now.