Pakistan
is going to sell it's PAC JF-17 Thunder / CAC FC-1 Xialong ( jointly developed by Pakistan
and China
) to 4 different countries. This JF-17 Thunder became Su-30 MKI slayer, when at 27 February 2019 it dropped 6 H-4 SOW bombs in India
and destroyed a Su-30 of Indian air force. ( Same day PAF's F-16 also destroyed an Indian MiG-21) after this many countries are in negotiations with Pakistan to buy this lightweight Multirole Combat aircraft. Countries are particularly interested in the upcoming 4.5 generation variant , the block 3 Thunder.
These 4 countries have almost finalized the deal with Pakistan for the purchase of this fighter ;
1. #Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan air force already has ordered 10 PAC Super Mushshak ( a trainer + light attack ) from Pakistan, and now recently Azerbaijan air force pilots took training on PAF's K-8 Karakurm , an advance trainer and light attack aircraft jointly developed by Pakistan
and China
. Now news are coming that Azerbaijan is intended to order JF-17 B ( a 2 crew variant ) and upcoming most advance JF-17 Block-3 , which is a 4.5 generation fighter.
2. #Malaysia
Malaysia's combat fleet comprises of potent 4th generation Aircrafts such as F-18, Su-30, MiG-29, but these aircrafts are very less in number, Maylasia desperately needs an equally potent fighter at lower cost, JF-17 was the easiest approach , aircraft has half the price of these expensive aircrafts but is equally powerful. Maylasia is also interested in JF-17 Block-3 and variant B.
3. #Myanmar
Myanmar had already ordered 16 JF-17 Block-2s, out of which 6 aircrafts have been delivered to their air force as JF-17 M , who's performance is almost equal to real Block-2 thunder.
Myanmar wants to acquire latest Variant, the block-3 as well.
4. #Nigeria
Nigeria became the first African customer of this aircraft. As they initially ordered 3 block-2s as JF-17 N worth 184.3 million US
dollars. Per unit cost of aircraft with full equipments, weapons and training was only 61.433 million dollars. Now Nigeria will order more JF-17s, but this time the most advance variant the block-3 .