the very notion for you deluded bunch to make an 'indigenous' LCA started as early as late 70s, but
your primitive country is so incompetent even with all the direct helps and imports from western countries, after 30 years still couldnt figure out how to assemble a Mig-21 upgrade```
so you lot resort to your very nature of twisting facts about this and that```one clownish play is to twisting about when the LCA 'actually' started
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@Topic: A Project is started when funding Started. For LCA funding started in 1991.
Yes it takes time to Design and develop a plane..
Only
"Beg Borrow Steal Cheat" mechanism can produce jet in 6 years..
You are talking nonsense and trolling.
Does the JF-17 in any way resembles the F-7 or the Sabre II. Which was intiated by Grumman of US.
You think if the JF-17 was based on all the work done by the American compan, wouldn't they have a say in this.
The bottom line is that LCA is running some 20 years late in it's induction .
I am not here to shake your belief.. If you believe so, let it be...
Thunder delights everyone with its performance because it exceeds the expectations of the pilots, engineers and support personnel of the two countries who had toiled hard for years to bring the project to fruition.
Originally nicknamed the "Sabre 2" by the PAF Air Staff in 1987, --->
PAF Falcons - Picture Gallery - JF-17 Thunder Pictures album
A history-making joint team of Pakistni, Chinese and American specialists worked under one roof for seven months to see if such a fighter could be manufactured to meet the performance standards within the time-and-cost ceilings laid down by the PAF.
The emerging Sabre 2 cost and performance projections were so disappointing that Pakistan and China jointly decided to develop, in its place,
a new design called the "Super 7" on a cost-sharing basis and now aiming at an even better operational envelope. -->
PAF Falcons - Picture Gallery - JF-17 Thunder Pictures album
The Project was running, It failed once due to Sanctions, Chinese changed the name. Later it failed because of cost, Chinese changed the name. The design was "
beg borrowed stolen" from Mikoyan G, At 3rd attempt one plane was made and immidiately inducted in PAF.
The design was Russian, The engine was russian, The Avionics was designed since 1980s. The puzzle was put togather and mighty FC1 was born... It was assembled not designed/develpoed...