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No man. The fire control radar will definitely increase potency of JF-17, but wont make its avionics as good as rafale. avionics include many other factors like jammers, EW suite etc.
Actually PAF will be looking for aditional western avonics like the ECM suite, jammers etc which would bring it on par with latest 4.5thgeneration jets.
I hope so too. If we choose Rafale for MRCA, maybe we can make the french cancel this deal.
Otherwise lets hope that USA will force French to cancel in fear of tech getting in chinese hands (but the chances are low, French usually dont listen to USA when it comes to arms deals).
If the deal goes thru, it'll be a definite headache for india, and maybe we might decide to buy the RC 400 or something better for LCA
Anyway lets wait and see. meanwhile kudos to pak officials for landing the deal.
If you choose Rafale then perhaps there is a chance for the deal to get canceled. Other then that nothing will happen. US cant stop france, the reason is that US itself is giving Pakistan the lastest F-16s and besides pakistan has signed MOU with france about the technology transfer. Also EU embargo doesnt get violated as the jet from 2008 will be made in pakistan and will be known as JF while the chinses version is called FC-1 which will be made in china, though both planes are the same, but legally france is not violating any terms and conditions since technology is being transfered to pakistan for the jets which will be made in pakistan and chinese has nothing to do with it.