Mr. Khan, that is the entire point. Your assertion is dead on the mark. Pak/PAF strategy has to be 20/80 rule thus making the spending spree of your esteemed eastern hegemon redundant. Instead going bankrupt in the process and even more dependent on external powers...The best and only solution is home built. Mind you not necessarily home grown but home built. Just utilise the existing framework and infrastructure... build capabilities... create jobs.
Only then will you increase your comprehensive natuaral power. I duely totally agree with your solution as step 2 in JF development.
Dear Araz, thank you for your kind and systematic reply. A practical mind is structured one. Your, sir, enjoy one!
If I may, in sincere and good spirit, challenge your points just to extend our understanding of issues at hand...mind you from practical point of view the 'problems' you highlighted are there. No denying them if nothing is/can be done. If the logic is extended then... there is no use in trying all is boxed and no opportunities are there to break free...
Can it ever be so?
There is a window of opportunity opening up in the international relastions that offers your country many a benefit.
OF course, this will depend on the finess of your esteemd establishment. Again one is not refering to your political classes but the establishment.
No problems. None. Your really have no problems. You swin in the seas of opportunities..
All problems have solutions attached to them.
It is the question of perspective and spirit.
If one changes the practical and limiting mindset to creative and counter intuitive.. onorthodox solutions just rain.
Yes, no one will try to create a competitor for themselves. But they are not selling any of their planes.
JF is replacing Mig21 and will keep doing so for perhaps a decade or two. just mark it somewhere. 10 planes here 20 there and before you know you have sold a record.
Who is going to really buy J31?
Iran perhaps.
Pakistan most likely. Who else???
Now, just throwing it out there, who can/will buy a semi stealth JF 2.0 (only using as a title) in numbers...
PAF needs them and can build them in numbers, bringing price even lower.
Your labour cost is lower than SAC/CAC. They Chinese government finance the deals and share profits...just a possible solution.
IF not then just use the older engines from your Mirages (twiin engine JF2.0 then) and make the bloody thing fly.
But chart your course on your own. Involve anyone or everyone... Just get on with confidence. Build it figergass even if you have to... but just do it.
Obviously this forum is great eductional place for ones like yours truly to learn about the minds of people.
I would say remain practical but be counter intuitive.
May I invite you, for the sake of mental excercise, to take a leave of your mature and robust practicality. And come up with create, outragious, absurd solutions to your a b c d.
I for one, would be honoured and delighted to read your take on solutions. Bless you all.