In what is seen as an effort to counter India's efforts to participate in the development of fifth generation fighter aircraft with Russian Sukhoi company, Kamra, a compound based in Pakistan Pakistani Aviation of China, Chengdu and Space Foundation of China, last October and signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field the development of an advanced fighter characteristics hide-seat, single-engine fighter derived from the Thunder JF-17. Which are light multi-role fighter of the fourth generation, which is being developed at the present time between Pakistan and China. As a result, it is expected of the Pakistan Air Force) to get 100 fighter Jf-17 And intervention in service as of this year until 2014, and then will turn to get 150 fighter Jf-17 Ghost of the fifth-generation fighter is derived from the fourth-generation Current between 2015 and 2025. Current plans call made by Pakistan of the plane phantom to be double-side openings engine turbine helicopters of the type 3-SNECMA Moteurs' M88, and includes a digital cockpit avionics are open and can be reprogrammed, and the use of sensors of the type of SELEX and aerial systems and radar packages radiological multi-tasks VIXEN 500E type of work on the wave of X, an integrated package of electronic warfare and self-defense currently being developed by a company CETC Chinese, with a helmet equipped with vision and cueing score, which is currently being evaluated similar systems company Thales, European and BAE Systems, British / American company and Denel of South Africa. M88 turbofan engine for this aircraft will be changing the entrances, while Dhagz high pressure will have a sixth phase, the exhaust nozzle will be of the type ejector. Turbofan engine will be a force to pay 11,250 pounds and 17,000 with the afterburning, reinforcing the basic offensive will imply plane will cruise missiles Pakistani Hatf-type - 8 under their wings (also called 'thunder' or 'thunder' in Arabic), and a range of up to 350km. In order to combat air will be armed with three types of missiles, air - air: PL-12 missile with a range of 60km Chinese to fight the air long-range missile, the Chinese PL-13 with a range of 15km to fight air coherent, PL-14 missile with a Chinese jet engine with a ramjet engine over 100km. It is noted that two missiles had been their development in collaboration with the South African company Denel
