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I visit this excellent thread at least once a week and keep wondering why this ship was designed under powered and with such short legs - and imagine it with 2 engines
I visit this excellent thread at least once a week and keep wondering why this ship was designed under powered and with such short legs - and imagine it with 2 engines
The answer is simple: to keeps costs down as much as possible while retaining as much of performance as possible. The JF-17 represents an excellent compromise according to PAF's needs.
Engine technology is very expensive, and dual-engine planes are more expensive to buy, maintain and use. What good is a better plane that we cannot afford?
Come on now, please think - all we hear from Pakistanis is their concern for costs, as if the purpose of the Air Force is to keep costs down - get propeller driven aircraft, keep your costs down, heck just do away with the Air force and reduce costs even further -- Armed Forces are maintained to give the state the ability to assert itself over adversaries - but if cost effectiveness is the criteria and not capabilities, then we have a problem --
Some argue that we cannot afford better more capabilities -- can we afford to not have them??