Bilal Khan (Quwa)
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I was thinking ... We keep the ambition of AZM in place, go at it as this super difficult project for the sake of building local expertise and industries. However, we pay AVIC for continued JF-17 work (in China), and get those to plug gaps until AZM is ready.Quite insightful this!
There is a logical design limit to what extent JF can be upgraded or do all sorts of things... In my view opening up the JF design...say... enlarging it with hybrid requirements of Azm will provide an extremely valuable experience both in design and manufacturing... can, to some extent, work as a cheaper validated platform.... like not creating the perfect Azm aircraft from get-go... but building block by building block.... A Directed Evolution Model, perhaps!
Such an approach with also allow breathing room in building up both HumanCapital and Fabrication facilities as well...
Regardless, Azm is going to leverage many techs from partners... we won't do it alone!
The risk with block-building AZM is that we could end up with a compromised design at the start, thus defeating the purpose of the project. I'd rather preserve the difficult top end specs for AZM, but buffer against the risk via an existing program.