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By 2016(as per Dubai info releases) Block III would be ready and production will start.
-You are entitled to your opinion brother but lets just say it should have a shred of reality too...How can we raise the envelop of JF-17 more higher than its already defined when even our Block I's are there thanks to China's agreement of soft loans....
No..2017 is the Year if all goes well Block III would be in prototype Phase.
I'm sorry but JF-17 has limitations Block III-IV would only do so much with the upgrades it would get, it would go as far as F-16 Desert Falcon-Japanese F-2's are at the most better weapons/more payload stretch fuselage and use of increase composite material and the standard 4+ Gen like AESA-IRST-new engine and other internal subsystems. By that time GripenNG-Rafale-Typhoon-F-15SE-FA/18SH would be miles ahead.
Reality JF-17 serves the purpose of replacing older generation of Jets in PAF and to cover the gap for a decade or so to come due to funds restrictions or non availability. PAF will have to do something else to get a really and I mean to get really something that challenges your neighbor with FANGS of Sukhoi-Mig-29ers-Mirage 2000 dash upgrades soon to come, Rafale-PakFA...it is no joke anymore...PAF has nothing beyond next 12 Years+ to challenge those highly modified and to be modernized-modified hindustani inventory of the future. I believe the blame is not entirely on PAF it is the Govt(s) of Pakistan as well you can only reach that level to have cash cow IF you start grabbing people collect Taxes whether they die of hunger or not start some massive clean up inside Pakistan that Pakistani Govt could have done but due to lazy bums we are living in the era i would match with 50's...