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Seems they are lot of idiots who cant differentiate between PL XX (seen to be carried by su30s/j11) and PL 15
Don't fall for this DJ viper discord tactics between r/s of China and Pakistan. He is asking more and more ridiculous inquiry which US couldn't even provide. Why didn't US setup a factory to produced AIM-120 missile for PAF @DJ_ViperOk
Lets do maths then since you cannot see why this venture cannot be considered(because you have maths):
What is the investment needed to setup? Im sure you know these figures please put them in there
Local assembly line
Capital costs:
Financing
- cost of assembly
- installation
depreciation
Operating costs/YR
- components
- labor
- overheads
Amortized costs to a SD-10 missile ?
As a reference the AIM-120C-5 to which the SD-10 is analogous to cost Pakistan $850k per missile.
The SD-10 costs about 60% of it.
Let me give an example to start
Japan license produces the PAC-3 and SM-3 missiles - total of $8 billion cost in setting up each factory(and rebuild line) and around 500 missiles that were required for JSDF and JMSDF with additional changes for which Raytheon’s production line was not capable of supporting.
Pakistan has 750 SD-10s already in stock with a shelf life good for another 7-10 years that represent $375 million in investment and are sufficient for its Jf-17 fleet.
Yet, you are proposing creating a build line(for which you will be providing the math) and then “buying” 1000 additional missiles which even if costing lower($350k is an example) will be used where? In an all out conflict the aircraft will disappear before the missiles.
Now, the SD-10 was pitched to Pakistan as a SAM a few years ago and rejected so why would this hypothetical version be acceptable now - and which seems to bolster the number you are proposing?
Could Britain stop Argentina from buying the JF-17 warplane?
By Usman Ansari
Sep 28, 06:40 PM
A Pakistani JF-17 Thunder performs during a celebration in Islamabad on Sept. 6, 2015. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
ISLAMABAD — Argentina insists reports the country is buying the JF-17 Thunder warplane are premature, but analysts believe it could still succeed where other fighter types failed — mostly as a result of British pressure.
Speculation arose after media reports highlighted a request in Argentina’s fiscal 2022 draft budget for $664 million to purchase 12 JF-17s from Pakistan.
However, Argentina’s embassy in Islamabad told Defense News that “no final decision has been made, as there are five alternatives currently being assessed.” When asked to identify those contenders, the embassy responded: “We don’t have any information on those alternatives.”
Andrei Serbin Pont, the director of Argentinean think tank CRIES and a former adviser at the country’s Strategic Affairs Secretariat, said there’s been a history of such speculation. Argentina has previously “included funds for acquisition of aircraft in the budget, but the aircraft were not acquired. This occurred with Mirage F-1Ms and with Kfirs (canceled last minute in 2015),” he explained.
He believes the JF-17 is an attractive choice for Argentina because the aircraft is “out of reach of possible U.K. vetoing of parts, and at the same time it is the only new aircraft within the budgetary restraints of the Argentine Air Force.”
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The JF-17 is under consideration alongside the Tejas, produced by India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, and the FA-50 Golden Eagle, made by South Korea’s Korea Aerospace Industries.
By Usman Ansari
The U.K. previously pressured suppliers to cancel deals with Argentina, or sabotaged them by embargoing critical British components. Britain has effectively maintained an arms embargo on Argentina since the 1982 Falklands War.
Over the past decade, the country pressured Spain to scrap a deal to supply surplus Mirage F1M fighters, and a deal for Kfir jets from Israel appears to have failed due to a combination of British pressure and American control of the aircraft’s J79 engines.
Britain also effectively vetoed the sale to Argentina of Brazilian license-built Swedish Saab Gripen and Korea Aerospace Industries FA-50 aircraft. And the U.K. stopped the return to Argentinian service of ex-French Super Etendard Modernisé strike aircraft by refusing to provide export clearance for British components.
However, the JF-17 can operate with solely Chinese subsystems, effectively making it immune from British pressure.
Still, Serbin Pont said, “the United States is making a push offering used F-16s, and another alternative being put on the table are modernized F/A-18s.”
“Although Mirage and MiG aircraft are still under consideration, these are the least likely to be selected,” he added.
Brazil-based defense analyst Alex Galante believes while “the Argentine government has a preference for the JF-17,″ it might be “awaiting a better offer from the U.S. or Russia.”
Added aerospace expert Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute: “After other options have been repeatedly blocked or fallen through on finance grounds, the [JF-17] aircraft increasingly looks like the best option available.” But at this stage, he added, “any replacement fighter would be a potentially transformative boon for the Fuerza Aérea Argentina [Air Force] after more than a decade of unsuccessful attempts to replace its Mirage III and V fleets.”
Britain’s diplomatic post in Pakistan did not respond to Defense News about how the European country might react to a JF-17 sale, but aerospace expert Douglas Barrie, at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, suspects Britain is closely watching the procurement effort because of the aircraft’s weapons package.
“While the JF-17/FC-1 as a platform has only modest combat aircraft characteristics, some of the Chinese air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles that are being or are already integrated on the aircraft are capable, notably the PL-10 short-range IIR AAM and the PL-12 active-radar-guided AAM,” Barrie said. “The medium-range C-802 anti-ship missile has also been seen on development aircraft.”
But Bronk pointed out that the JF-17 has “limited range while carrying such weapons, especially in the context of Argentina’s extensive land and maritime territory.”
“It also remains to be seen whether the Fuerza Aérea Argentina would be able to sustain a decent serviceability rate with the JF-17, if delivered, as recent decades have not been kind to the FAA in this regard.”
Argentina’s Air Force has struggled to replace aging aircraft and maintain offensive capabilities, having retired nearly all is front-line combat aircraft, save for some A-4AR Fightinghawk attack aircraft now supported by and even smaller number of IA-63 Pampa jet trainers.
The fourth-generation JF-17 is jointly developed and produced by China’s Chengdu Aerospace Corporation and the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, the latter of which produces 58 percent of the airframe and undertakes final assembly. The latest Block III variant, in production for Pakistan and being offered to Argentina, features a range of improvements including an active electronically scanned array radar, plus the choice of a Chinese WS-13 engine rather than the Russian RD-93 that powered the first two variants and those in Pakistani service.
Could Britain stop Argentina from buying the JF-17 warplane?
The fourth-generation JF-17 is jointly developed and produced by China’s Chengdu Aerospace Corporation and the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex.www.defensenews.com
What have you been smoking my friend?Seems they are lot of idiots who cant differentiate between PL XX (seen to be carried by su30s/j11) and PL 15
PL 15 is just 3.9 meters where will it get the gas for 300km
Lastly chinese define range differently then americans..different height and launch kinetic parameters
Hence the sd10 70km is more or less american 100km+
Just like 3rd gen and fourth gen chinese american jets
Pl 15 still out ranges everything including meteor
The aim260 will outrange pl15 though
Seems they are lot of idiots who cant differentiate between PL XX (seen to be carried by su30s/j11) and PL 15
PL 15 is just 3.9 meters where will it get the gas for 300km
Lastly chinese define range differently then americans..different height and launch kinetic parameters
Hence the sd10 70km is more or less american 100km+
Just like 3rd gen and fourth gen chinese american jets
Pl 15 still out ranges everything including meteor
The aim260 will outrange pl15 though
can you post the link of video ... ??
This is not "breaking news" It was plain "news" 5 days ago. And no I will not click on the likely terrible youtube video.Breaking......! (Mirage & JF17 Thunder With Supersonic Cruise Missile)....