The production figures are not well
We should have been making 14 planes / year as it was the original plan
2007 - 2 Thunders 14% efficiency
2008 - 6 Thunders 42% efficiency
2009 - 4 Thunders 28 % efficiency
2010 - 8 Thunders 66 % efficiency
2011 - 9 Thunders 64 %efficiency
2012 - 2 Thunders 57 % efficiency
2013 - 9 Thunders 64 % efficiency
2014 ...we only hear of 2 Block JF17 thunder again a drop to 14% efficiency ratio
However as we can see by the Numbers posted the production never reached double figures of 10 jets / year. Which to me was some what disappointing.
So , with man power we have , and the resources we have its sad that we have not achieved 90% efficiency in production since 2007
What is more puzzling is that we were to receive 36 J10B , in December 2014
36 J10B > 2 JF17 production numbers achieved in 2014. We had a deal in place to get 36 state of art J10B fighter jets , all ready to go however we also opted out of that deal
One can argue , ok well we were focused on JF17 thunder program however the production capacity , and efficiency in our production lines speak otherwise...
We have not produced enough JF17 thunder planes and now do not have J10B 36 jets as well
As useful as the F16 C/D platform is unless we have open access to source code of plane and AESA upgrade on card this plane is not ideal for investment its literally throwing away money
Where does the problem lies ?
Is it man power , there are ample engineers willing to work for Air-force so they can setup 3 shifts if needed (Morning - Afternoon - Night) to get production levels up
Is the bottle neck the Kamra assembly line ?
Well the new assembly line should be constructed no doubt ...