Oh look at that, you lot love giving yourselves the benefit of the doubt but when we do the same about Tejas, you lot start choking and gaging.
The truth is you lot get to prance about about inducting 100 JFTs is coz you set the bar way lower than we did.
JFT doesn't have a decent enough fbw and HMSD and couldn't fire bvr when it was inducted, etc.
Makes you think if JFT was held to the same IOC standards as Tejas it wouldn't even be flying.
As for sugar daddies.
What crucial subsystem does pakstan even contribute in JFT better yet what pakistani subsystem will there be in JFT blk3?
At the least we can say Tejas has 50, 60, 70% Indian contribution in it and are still increasing indigenous components in it every year.
Talk about nuts and bolts when you move beyond a few nuts and bolts.
There it is, you only have news long past to consult to, after all how else will pdf pakistanis enforce their confirmation bias.
Composites, no longer foreign.
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The initial rudimentary fbw was indeed developed in collaboration with the US.
However the same initial iteration failed numerous times and eventually the one we developed was the far more advanced RSS quadruplex fly-by-wire.
No one really gave us that, we made it on our own.
As for the wind tunnel tests.
The penultimate wind tunnel tests which led to the freezing of the designs for the IOC standard Tejas was done in India in CSIR NAL.
The turbofan powerplant, armaments, radar will all eventually be Indian, which is more than what I can say for JFT.
And to that point, you pdf pakistanis love to point out how us rejoicing the indigenisation of any small component in Tejas is such a blight on world but you forget to realise that you yourselves don't even make that much.
What exactly is "joint" in the joint fighter?
The Chinese and Russian have more of a contribution in it than pakistan.
What about JFT's FBW, weapons, engine, radar, so on and so forth? Forget about the present you don't even have plans to have pakistani subsystems in it.