Sorry sir, I was in little haste so i couldn't write properly for you to understand..
Because things start where when brother
@CriticalThought said that "
If, in 2005 PAF announced that they are going to spend 3.5 billion USD on Thunder, there would have been an almighty uproar and possibly you could have been one of the people raising hue and cry.
Today, I believe we should be ramping up production of Thunder. And here is how. Secure an economic zone in Saudi and set up the factory there. It can supply both export orders and PAF needs. And the good thing would be redundancy. In case of war, India cannot target factories inside Saudi or UAE ".
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/coun...100th-jf17-thunder.519388/page-3#post-9890653
and in that my response was this.
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there is already a JV between Pak-China..
as for 2005, in that time JF-17 program was subjected to shutdown as at that time Mushy and PAF chief was convinced that there will not be any sanctions again on Pakistan as they were happy with F-16 and with their commissions.. but thanks to GOD that JF-17 program survived mainly because JF-17 was being made in China and Chinese continue that program...
1990 and 2000 are being called as lost decades of PAF. because in 1990 they cancelled a done deal of advanced Mirage 2000. and in 2000 they chooses what they already have(18 F-16). against Rafale, EFT and Gripen and excuse for rejecting these aircraft was that these aircraft are too advanced for PAF. "
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/coun...100th-jf17-thunder.519388/page-3#post-9890864
and response from
@CriticalThought was this.
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And the result if Chinese JV doesn't provide enough redundancy. PAC should open another factory in Saudi.
The Thunder went through 6 prototypes, with extensive inputs from PAF pilots thoroughly early to mid 2000. I don't believe in conspiracy theories.
The capital spent on operationalizing M2Ks could have made Thunder infeasible. At this point it is very hard to determine.
Thunder is a direct competitor of Gripen. No need to acquire the same platform twice.
Rafale, when it was offered had serious technical issues, due to which it was rejected. Also, Dassault could involve us on very expensive game if selling one solution to us, its counter to India, so on and so forth.
The EFT, till early 2000s, was an air superiority fighter. This is NOT what PAF required. Possibly this is the root of the perception that it was rejected for being 'too advanced '
and after reading his post my reaction was like this.
So, i called you see my brethren..