China shall give 50 JF17 Thunder on emergency bases

[Silk]

I'm little confused, chin mounted hard point mean hard point in this area?



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No, it is near the gun. The location has been reserved for that purpose since the design ended.

 

[Silk]

To build 50 brand new fighters in 12 months is a remarkable achivement.

French are building 12 rafales a year

India 15 su30mki a year

Typhoon barely 20 per year

TEJAS will run at 8 planes per year

50 JF17 is incredible.... IF ITS EVEN TRUE

To produce a Tejas is stupid. Waste of resources.

 

[hatf IX]

A good link for JFT 3D images . . .
3d chengdu jf-17 thunder fighter model

 

[hatf IX]

I'm little confused, chin mounted hard point mean hard point in this area?



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chin mounted mean that it will be placed here

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[IndianArmy]

To produce a Tejas is stupid. Waste of resources.

Indeed, especially when you have nothing to claim of your own...

 

[Storm Force]

Some other media in india are assuming this is not a NEW order but merely confirmation of the first batch of 50 arriving 12 months earl;ier

ie orginally sheduled to complete delivery mid 2012.

Now will finish December 2011.

TO BE HONEST THIS theory seems to make more sense./

Not even the USA can supply 50 f16 new build in 12 months IT JUST NOT FEASIBLE

I think Pakistani media or OUR interpretation as GONE wrong completely.

 

[abdulbarijan]

As per some senior members (including eagle hannan) block 2 might be the last version of JF-17..
So what about the future of the stealth varient of JF-17...
there was a mention in Antibody's post in the FC-20 thread

2. Comprehensive upgrades for low RCS profile including cockpit glass, RAM paint, refined structure, completely new nose structure for AESA, significant increase in the use of composites and retractable refueling probe.

So are we moving straight to the stealthy varient since many steps according to senior members have been taken to lower the RCS

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

As per some senior members (including eagle hannan) block 2 might be the last version of JF-17..
So what about the future of the stealth varient of JF-17...
there was a mention in Antibody's post in the FC-20 thread

So are we moving straight to the stealthy varient since many steps according to senior members have been taken to lower the RCS

stealth jf17 is a remour

 

[Stealth_fighter]

pardon my ignorance,wen jft block 2 gonna join PAF?

 

[girishktyagi]

No,
Its a "Lets penetrate India" kind of announcement

We will wait again as always..!! and I can assure you the result will be same as ever...!!

 

[Shahzad834]

Great news...

 

[Shahzad834]

We will wait again as always..!! and I can assure you the result will be same as ever...!!

result will be like mumbai atack....

 

[Conqueror]

JFTs are like 86% of F-16 Blk 52. If you count, that makes additional 43 F-16s all Blk 52!. I think these should be enough to keep mind think few hundred times before moving their @ss.

These are for defence only.. for offence, we will use offensive weapons which are worth an offence Lets pray no one would see that day as its not going to be enjoyable for either side.

 

[jbond197]

^^^
Good for you!! Hopefully these may help stop future drone attacks too..

 

[somebozo]

India is no immedeate threat other than over confident war of words. WHy dont we put the money into raising literacy and building infrastructure as well local industry and R/d instead of imported boxed fighters?

KARACHI:
Pakistan is getting a good deal, Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar will tell you. Instead of paying $80 million per piece for the American-built F-16s, the JF-17 Thunder fighter jets will cost us about a fourth of that, between $20 and $25 million per piece.

The deal is so good, the minister says, that we’ve ordered 50 of the JF-17s to be delivered in the next six months.

How much would that cost us? Between $1 and $1.25 billion. That doesn’t sound awfully expensive for national defence in itself but how else could we spend about $1.25 billion?

Education

About seven million children in Pakistan are not enrolled in primary schools, according to Pakistan Education Task Force. With $1.25 billion, The Citizen’s Foundation, a private NGO that runs schools for underprivileged children, could educate 1.8 million of them for three years in over 7,000 schools built from scratch. Of course, if it was spent more wisely on already constructed schools, it could possibly resolve Pakistan’s education emergency.

Health

The Saudi government built basic health units at a cost of Rs13 million each in quake-affected a reas. That means instead of 50 fighter jets, we could have 8,173 basic health units, or over 1,400 fully-equipped, 50-bed hospitals.

Infrastructure

Lack of infrastructure – roads, airports, public transit systems – is a serious constraint on Pakistan’s development. Meanwhile, the floods destroyed the already-existing highway network in the country. For $1.25 billion, the National Highway Authority could build approximately 2,500 kilometres of brand new, four-lane highways or 1,250 kms of world-class, six-lane, access controlled motorways. That’s more than three times the length of the famed Islamabad-Lahore motorway.

Of course, it could alternatively be spent on the much-needed Gwadar airport, 13 times over!

And if I were to be selfish and think just about Karachi, it could pay for 80% of the Karachi Circular Railway’s cost, or give the city a modern bus rapid transit network, four times. That’s real splurging.

Power

Each megawatt (MWe) of power produced by a thermal plant costs about $1 million in plant construction etc, on average. $1.25 billion would mean we add an additional 1,250 MWe of electricity to our starved network. Of course, there is no guarantee we’d be able to produce and then use it since lack of electricity is not due to lack of installed generation capacity. But if you’re jingoistic enough, one could also use the 50 fighter jets money for an additional nuclear reactor at Chashma that would produce 340 MWe of electricity.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 21st, 2011.
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