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The financial situation of Pakistan requires lateral thinking. Do you add to your inventory types with another plane, when for the cost of one of these you can induct 2 of JFTs.Please consider that it will not just be the plane but the whole infrastructure required for it.This obviously is time and money consuming as well as training intensive, for a force that is already struggling with 2 new platforms(JFT and F16sMLU) It is your bird and the money you spend goes into developing it further. There are also issues around J10B not having been inducted in PLAAF. As with new planes, PLAAF would fulfill theri own requirements and PAF would wait for the platform to mature. Thirdly what is the threat perception. The rafale is not on the scene, PAF is busy inducting the JFT and MLUed F16s need new planning due to improved capabilities. Do you need to take on newer inventory at this stage. PAF needs time to settle down with itsa new toys before it goes for J10.
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Not to mention the JF-17 provides substantial growth potential because of the very reason how it was designed i.e the body was developed separate from the equipment to speed things up & enough space was intentionally kept to not only allow it to be fitted what was available to the PAF at the time when the JF-17 was finally inducted as opposed to keep the design parameters fixated as per the equipment that was available at the time of the designing stage but also to allow for subsequent upgrades. A concept that, if I understood AM Shahid Lateef correctly, was borrowed from the F-16. I see no reason why the JF-17 cannot be, in the future, fitted with an AESA radar, IRST capability & if the Chinese come up with such an engine - a supercruise or thrust-vectoring capability.