Deepika Maheshwari
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get over it that we designed the jet as much as China did we decided to partner with china because it had the infrastructure in place and thus sped up the process otherwise it would have been a late combat aircraft like yours
Here I disagree with you. Most of the design work on the plane was done by Chengdu specifically Yang Wei and his team. Pakistan provided 'inputs' however most of the design was Chinese. From your answer it appears you are implying that your aerospace engineers went to china and designed an Aircraft with some inputs from Chinese experts.
That said, manufacturing a fighter aircraft is not an easy job and Pakistan is manufacturing JF-17 like sausages. Thats commendable!
LCA for India is/was more like a classroom project. Indian designers learnt a lot but outcome was too little too late. I agree, a better idea might had been to collaborate with some friendly nation in a join project. Even UK does that. Making a new fighter is too expensive these days for one nation to do. Unless you are US, Russia or China. Not to mention India's lethargic manufacturing like HAL.
This is a real problem with Indian arms development. They go for flashy projects without doing their homework. An airframe, an engine and a missile. Very few have done this alone and still fewer in one single project. I guess history is repeating with AMCA. Again the same deal - new airframe, new engine, new radar all in one project, WTF! Doubt they will be able to deliver.
Actually some non-expert once commented that JF-17 was the ultimate Mig-21. It started from Chengdu F-7 which was chinese clone of Mig-21.if that was the case then this jet would have been yet another MiG 21 derivative.