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Because It's not a big news.With Chinese assistance Pakistan started a a local assembly unit of KLJ-7 radar at home. KLJ-7 is derived from Zhuk family in which unfortunately India got deep knowledge in it. whats so special in it.Please read the janes carefully.
Pakistan to build radar for JF-17 'Thunder' fighter
So finally Pakistan ended up with Chinese radars and finally concluded the long story of AESA from Selex..All the best guys.
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^what an ironic suggestion, no one even think about it earlier.
Congrats Pakistan. But now starts the real challenge of expanding and modernizing the PAC.
Hmmm... now think real hard about this. JF-17 after first batch of 50 would be using AESA or a better PD radar. This is known fact and declared future plans. Why on earth, Pakistan will set up a production line for radar which is going to be used on just 50 odd copies of Thunders?
it is PAF mate, don't speculate unless u have official version available. And FYI, it is not only radar, Pakistan would be manufacturing locally built avionics systems for Thunder as well.
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Totally agree with U MANI..........If it was only the license production of klj-7 then what was the need to built new facility as we already have that facility where we are licence producing Grifo-series used on mirages and f-7's.as mirages and f-7's will be replaced by jf-17 so why wouldnot they have switched to klj-7 production instead of setting up a new facility?
May be plans for new local radar,and the research and other work will be carried out in new facility being set-up
Pakistan to build radar for JF-17 'Thunder' fighter
The chief of staff of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has told that Pakistan has built its first facility to manufacture radars for fighter aircraft.
Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman said the indigenously produced radar, built with China's assistance at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), in Kamra, north of Islamabad, would equip the JF-17 'Thunder' fighter aircraft jointly produced by the two countries.
"This is a major step forward. This will be the first such [radar manufacturing] facility in Pakistan," ACM Suleman said in an interview on 21 December at PAF headquarters in Islamabad. He confirmed that the radar would be fitted on the JF-17, which, along with US-supplied F-16 Fighting Falcons, is set to be the PAF's front-line combat aircraft.
Previous reports suggest that the radar to be manufactured will be the Chinese-built CETC/NRIET KLJ-7 radar set. At the 2010 Farnborough Air Show, at which two JF-17s made their debut in the West, reported that the KLJ-7 had received full marks from the JF-17's designers at PAC.
A PAC programme officer told : "I have flown with this radar and with other models that we have looked at fitting to this aircraft, such as the Thales RC400, and the Chinese radar is every bit as capable as its contemporary analogs."
Pakistan to build radar for JF-17 'Thunder' fighter