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These days whenever I hear of French deals, I imagine kickbacks.
These days whenever I hear of French deals, I imagine kickbacks.
I don't think any avionics is worth $15 million a piece. I imagine there is something else going on.
An aircraft having defeated F-16s in air to air combat during training missions, whose pilots have been transferred from the F-16s, pilots who are not willing to go back to the F-16s, deserves more then to be ranked then just a trainer.
Or should i be saying, ignorance is a .................................
Becoming skeptic for a moment, I want to ask could this be a reason for Pilots to stay with JF-17s and not go back to F-16s that F-16s are a lot more expensive and important to National Defense and thus its pilots must always stay at the top edge of their performance, attentiveness, diligence and discipline while JF-17s being relatively low valued and easy to repair would allow pilots to be more relaxed and easy on their career? There wouldn't be any difference in the benefits of F-16 Pilots and JF-17s Pilots, so one can think why should he burn more blood to be F-16's pilot while he could be relaxed and rewarded the same benifits as becoming a JF-17's pilot? I don't know how things work in PAF but I am just thinking loud here and I want to convince myself every possible way that JF-17s are actually and exactly what I am learning about them.
Please share your thoughts on that angle.
The pilots were given an option if they wish to revert back to the F-16 program as shortage of pilots was being faced in the F-16.
And the pilots not reverting back to F-16s was not due to the reasons you mentioned, rather it was due to the flying characteristics and ease of handling of JF-17s which made them stay. The radar of current JF-17 is better then the ones which we have in our 80s F-16s, there is very much ease in performing the actions in the cockpit. Lets suppose for a ground attack if you had to push 6 buttons in the F-16s, in JF-17s you need to push 3. The HUD of JF-17 shows more data and functions compared to the F-16s.
F-16s pilots are the best of the lot in PAF who get selected for these Falcons, so if these guys get selected for JF-17s it means there is something superior in them or equal to F-16s that they are willing to stay with this new bird.
Just for further reference do read the below linked post to give you a better idea, that why pilots are loving this bird.
http://www.defence.pk/forums/milita...ltirole-fighter-thread-3-a-59.html#post644270
Just to add, i do hope you know the craze Pakistani nation has about these F-16s, similarly the pilots of these F-16s would be more crazier and lovers of their F-16s, so for them leaving or not going back to their old love, means they have found a better lover then the predecessor.
why are people pancaking?
It will cost pakistan 2.1 billion dollars to upgrade 100 block 15 F-16s to MLU M3 standard excluding Weapons and Engine upgrade.
So 1.4 billion dollars worth of weapons avionics radars for 100 jf-17 is quite a good deal.
Growler sahb..panicking I saw pancake and immediately got hungry.