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And as for Delta designed aircraft, we are gonna have FC-20, so why need more JF-17 delta wing designed ??? FC-20 will have a delta design with canards.
Of course we have got the contract of FC20 but i was thinking we should have bought Gripen instead, at least one squarden.
I believe the price of FC20 would be around 40million and so would be of Grippen. Where as Grippen can share wepons, engine and link16 with F-16 and erieye.
the point is since we are going to enhance and maintain our inventory of F-16 than we should have bought at least one squarden of Gripen without hesitation and should have waited for FC20 until the engine, wepon, radar and AWACS situation is more clear.
FC20 should have been kept pure chinese platform instead of fusing western systems in it. It look swe are going to repeat same mistake as indians did with SU30.
Gripen would have also helped in improving the quality of JF-17 with early deliveries. Perhaps later we didn't needed to buy FC20 at all and we may end up with modifying JF-17 in to delta wings.
Just my opinion.
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Of course we have got the contract of FC20 but i was thinking we should have bought Gripen instead, at least one squarden.
I believe the price of FC20 would be around 40million and so would be of Grippen. Where as Grippen can share wepons, engine and link16 with F-16 and erieye.
the point is since we are going to enhance and maintain our inventory of F-16 than we should have bought at least one squarden of Gripen without hesitation and should have waited for FC20 until the engine, wepon, radar and AWACS situation is more clear.
FC20 should have been kept pure chinese platform instead of fusing western systems in it. It look swe are going to repeat same mistake as indians did with SU30.
Gripen would have also helped in improving the quality of JF-17 with early deliveries. Perhaps later we didn't needed to buy FC20 at all and we may end up with modifying JF-17 in to delta wings.
Just my opinion.
Dear TaimiKhan:
First of all........Orlikon is Swiss and they delivered what they agreed.
In case of sanctions our erieye are as **** as gripen may have been!
I'm not contesting or objecting the induction of F-16.... instead i'm saying Gripen with american engine and amraams may have only complimented an all american F-16.....an airframe which we are upgrading!
in shape of FC20 we will have every thing new.......which we should have decided with little more home work and testing and we should have given more time to Chinese for the development of FC20 according to our specs. instead of designing a new FC20 with Chinese out side and western inside sort of fusion.
As far i know Gripen has lowest operational costs and in life cycle cost, in longer run it turn out to be cheapest than any a/c available in market.
I trust that JF-17 are erieye enabled but later was not originally built for it.
Gripen works with erieye like no other a/c, there were chances of lot of training in netcentric warfare, which is the basic vision of Pakistan defence.
It is the same idea as PAF decided for SAAB2000 for hosting of erieye becasue it was designed around it.
Gripen may have complimented our mirrage fleet, immediately and we can save lot of man power used to test FC20 and laying out our requirements and later supervising perhaps the construction activities as well.
In case of gripen it may have been the opposite and this is where indians profit they learn from various contractors on their expense for years and than declare they know every thing.
All i'm thinking is of starting with one squardn only and some to learn for our JF-17 engineers as well.
I believe when PAF dumped it for the reasons of american parts...they didn't knew that they were going to get more F-16 and their parts plus MLU.