araz
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I think there is a lot more going on than you are aware of. I agree that Paklands lack basic infrastructure but they have always been able to procure subcomponents and make products themselves. So avionics are now being assembled in house. This is not ideal but this is how we can and do things. You cannot say that since we do not have X or Y capability, we cannot do ABandC. The problem is that there are quite a few unknowns which none of us are aware of. Progress ha been made since we started manufacturing JFTs and things will advance in spite of our inabilities t ocarry out ceertain functions. So as I said we will have to wait and see as none of us myself included is fully aware of what stage the project is at.A fighter project of this scale, cannot be brought to light as a rabbit out of a hat. In any case, feel free to disagree. This was my opinion anyway.
And even in case of JF-17, all first batches of manpower for JF-17 project was trained in China, maintenance included. And there is only a certain portion of the aircraft that we are right now able to build within the country, not even 100% of it. And this is to not even take into account the avionics end. And JF-17 right now, without the AESA is a 3.5 aircraft. You're referring to a low-observable aircraft program here. Can sort the math out yourself.
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