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Had the intakes been on the lower side, just like F-16 or J-10, then height would have been increased, but since the air intakes are on the sides, thus the height is less compared to the ones having intakes on the under side, but still JF-17 has good ground clearance.
Except for Indians, i don't see anyone else complaining that JF-17 looks like a Mig-21. From which angle does it looks like a Mig-21 ?? Do the wing design match ?? Does the nose matches ?? Does the air intakes match ?? Rudder ?? Elevators ?? heck the landing gear mechanism is different too.
JF-17 is unique in its own way. DSI is its uniqueness.
And the changes you are suggesting, will render the idea of JF-17 useless. With what you are suggesting, why then go for JF-17, why not then get J-10 as it has what you are asking, bigger dimensions, bigger everything. Why have 2 aircraft having the same characteristics.
JF-17 is to be a light weight multi role aircraft, which would be supplemented with a medium role MR aircraft in the shape of J-10s & F-16s.
So, keep JF-17 a light weight multi role aircraft, which has lot of room for further improvement and it will be improved. By the I'm not saying JF-17 is 3rd gen but if we want to sell it then we must do what our customers would expect. Egypt rejected it and maybe its cuz of that reason
It may become the 21st Century Mig-21, but its not a Mig-21 from any angle or characteristic.
I thought this fighter jet was built so our engineers could gain experience in building it in Pakistan and hence to decrease our our air force defence budget. We don't need to get J-10 if JF-17 blk 2 gains composites, bigger nose (diamond shaped with AESA radar), modern avionics, IRST, air refuelling probe----- The J-10 is far more expensive. I think its 40 million a piece. I am a big fan of JF-17 and realistically if we are going ahead with such modernization equivillant to that of J-10 then those days are gone when we used to call it a " light multi role jet". Even if we try to improve the airframe then still i believe we would be saving a couple of million dollars.