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As per H Khan
AFAIK, 004 is not delivered yet? 003 got delivered in June 0f 2013. But so far there are no indication of arrival of 004.
I know there were certain modification being performed on the last aircraft since PAF is planning to order 3 or 4 more of these aircrafts.
Some points about ZDK-03 and couple of other items of interest.
Y8P (formerly ZKD-08) has two antennas with horizontal mechanical scanning. Its range is 2m2 aerial targets is 300Km. It tracks 9 aircrafts simultaneously. It has a very good maritime search capability. PAF is developing their own data-link system able to integrate Y8P and Erieye. One of the main problems with Y8P is that it is so loud that even crew wearing headsets has to deal with engine/cabin loud noise. Pakistan is very happy with it intends to order three or four more aircrafts.
Klimov is offering RD93MA engine with 9,000kg reheat trust. Intended offer is for JF-17 and to install on J-31. But PAF/PAC has said that they have no plans to upgrade the trust on its JF-17.
CPMIEC is offering Pakistan FK3 SAM system in place of FD-2000 because the later is very expensive."
Why not take the Klimov offer and procure, say, 50 or so RD93MAs for BLK3? It's rumored to be having more physical changes, more thrust will help increase the overall payload/hardpoints on the JFT.