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so when we are receiving further thunders from china and pac??
They are being received as we speak. Its an ongoing process.
China delivers probably 3-4 airframes per quarter, which then get the final assembly at PAC.
Hopefully by now, 20 or so JF-17s, 14 of them in the initial Sqd and rest 6 or so which are PAC built as well as Chinese ones are at different stages of test flights before formal induction.
May be the induction numbers have gone up the 14 figure.
thats good but why dont china make delivery of complete manufactured thunders why these are coming in parts half are being manufactured in Pakistan and china why not china at once produced 30-40 thunders and deliver them to pakistan at once. ?
China has no problem is providing complete JF-17, but i believe PAC wants to get as much experience as possible, so that is why it gets them in disassembled kits and then assembles them at PAC. If you remember the first
Plus, no one gives dozens of fighters all at once, unless it is a war situation, as with slow induction, the inducting air force has to absorb the technology and has to train pilots also. So if PAF gets 20-30 aircraft at ones, it will have no human resource which will include pilots as well as the technicians, so with slow induction PAF will train pilots as well as technicians will get trained.