Egypt gets licence to make China jets

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adeptitus

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Egypt also could have no interests to be pressed by a embargo of US spare parts (for example: look to Venezuela) - so to be independence, they should look for other contractors and liczence production to;
the next export to Egypt (and licenc after some years) could be the FC-1/JF-17 MULTIROLE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT
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There's a decent sized market out there for nations looking to replace their old MiGs and Mirages. For an example, Egypt has over 700 J-6/MiG-19, J-7/MiG-21, Mirage V, and F-4E's.

The problem that FC-1 is that the plane is new and not considered mature technology. You'd also face stiff competition from other countries, such as US F-16, Russia's MiG-29, Su-27/30, France's Mirage-2000, and even Sweden's Gripen. Sweden offers a lease if you're on a tight budget.

In case of Africa, countries like Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, & Angola already operate Su-27's or MiG-29's. It'd be very difficult for the FC-1 to compete against Russian combat aircraft, plus the Russians are not likely to allow re-export of RD-93 power plants that'd cut into their own export sales.
 
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adeptitus said:
There's a decent sized market out there for nations looking to replace their old MiGs and Mirages. For an example, Egypt has over 700 J-6/MiG-19, J-7/MiG-21, Mirage V, and F-4E's.

The problem that FC-1 is that the plane is new and not considered mature technology. You'd also face stiff competition from other countries, such as US F-16, Russia's MiG-29, Su-27/30, France's Mirage-2000, and even Sweden's Gripen. Sweden offers a lease if you're on a tight budget.

In case of Africa, countries like Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, & Angola already operate Su-27's or MiG-29's. It'd be very difficult for the FC-1 to compete against Russian combat aircraft, plus the Russians are not likely to allow re-export of RD-93 power plants that'd cut into their own export sales.
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WS-13 will be available in a couple of years.
 
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sino52C

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However, the FC-1 may still be rejected since it is not combat proven or mature enough. Perhaps people still don't trust Chinese designed planes.
 
MIGleader

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china needs to prove it somehow...maybe since it's forbidden to export it's rd-93 engine to pakistan, it should fing an alternative while using the engines to power 100 indegedous fc-17s. then use it aginst the cvbg's super hornets. if they can get a few kills and come out with only small losses, its definitly worth it.
 
Chairman Hu

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Wow now we have another problem, seriously, wonder China is going to replace the RD-93 with? Anyone got any suggestions?
 
MIGleader

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an indegedous copy?(pretty easy)

a down graded ws-10(might take some work)

some european engine, possibly france.(pretty easy too, no one cares about the embargo.)
 
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