rcrmj
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these highlighted ones are not easy things to do, more complicated than you thought```to code the software achitect and rounding up thousands of mathmetical equations alone can rule out most of countries (developed), and then it comes to debugging, "tuning" and systemetic integration which even Gernamy and Japan are not up to the job.``however these highlighted parts are not the hardest part````Don't know about the others, but the Turkish folks have learnt that to fully utilize the 5th gen capabilities it better be home grown. The most critical parts in the realms of avionics, EW, radars, armaments etc. need "personal touch" to stand out among thousands of commonalities. Hence, the Pak project to develop indigenous 5th gen is a right choice!!! I am pretty sure the Chinese inputs would save them the hassle of "reinventing the wheels"!!! And, as is the case with almost all engineering projects, the "wheels" get exponentially bigger and complicated as the level of complexity and sophistication increases!!!! Any "friendly" inputs are more than welcome......
radiation emission researches, aerodynamic researches and high performance turbofan, are the real hassles to develop a real 5th gen fighter`````and the worst part is that those "helps" cannot be bought or borrowed, you have to "reinventing the wheels", the only things you can "borrow" are those hundreds of published research papers (either by American or Russian and Chinese coming up very quickly lately)
for the first one, you need decades long experience of examing, collecting, calculating and formulating bands, data and methmetical equitions`````the second one, again you need state of art wind tunnels from various sizes and speed + hundreds of thousand hours of planned tests. With all of these then you can come-up with an aerodynamic efficient and friendly frame that can actually be stealth !
and lastly the engine part``well, that is the job for industrial and technological superpowers```no disrespect to others, but that what it is all about`````
so you are right to some extent that to develop a real 5th gen fighter you have to rely on yourselfe. However, the question is, how deptermined your nation is to support a project that will go for decade after decade, which is also needs a dramatic boots of all fields of related industries, and during the time you might not see any results but counterless failures````are you guys ready for that?
- J-31 likely a high runner
- J10B
- Sukoi-35
- Project AZM (Local initiative)