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jetman26

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Nigeria's F-7's

Hi, my parents are from Nigeria and I wanted to know if Nigeria's F-7's have been modified. I keep thinking the unit cost is very high for such a low-tech fighter.
 
tphuang

tphuang

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Re: Nigeria's F-7's

No idea, I would guess Nigeria probably got the most advanced F-7s available. Also, it has some twin-seated version, so that's normally more expensive. Is the unit cost higher than I expected? yes. Then again, I don't know how many missiles Nigeria got as part of the deal. You got to understand that each pl-9c costs around 125k. If you get like 160 of them, that would be 20 million right there.
 
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jetman26

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I hope they will buy it, but most African nations do not spend a lot of money on defense. Nigeria does have the money for it but they probally feel like since they bought the F-7's they will not have to buy anything else for a long time.
 
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SABRE

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There are good number of countries interested in buying retiring J-7/F-7s of PLAAF & PAF. Seems like F-7 in poorer countries will go through 2020 to 2025 probably. Earlier this month Yemmani President visited the PAC F-7 Rebuild facility. Yemman is among the top countries contender for PAF's out going F-7s.
 
f2000

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SABRE said:
There are good number of countries interested in buying retiring J-7/F-7s of PLAAF & PAF. Seems like F-7 in poorer countries will go through 2020 to 2025 probably. Earlier this month Yemmani President visited the PAC F-7 Rebuild facility. Yemman is among the top countries contender for PAF's out going F-7s.
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yeah f-7 is good choice 4 those which can't afford advanced ac.
with little money they can provide good air defence although doesnt have ability to strike .4 other countries like pakistan,its also good to make f-7 as second liner ac in air protection n supporting first liner ac.they could be used light cas(close air support).
well better have than nothing:china:
 
SteelBird

SteelBird

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f2000 said:
yeah f-7 is good choice 4 those which can't afford advanced ac.
with little money they can provide good air defence although doesnt have ability to strike .4 other countries like pakistan,its also good to make f-7 as second liner ac in air protection n supporting first liner ac.they could be used light cas(close air support).
well better have than nothing:china:
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I would suggest that they continue with the MF version which have more hardpoint and much advanced than other old versions of F-7. F-7MF is claim to be comparable to FC-1.
 
MIGleader

MIGleader

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f-7MF was cancelled. Dont ask why. Most likely because changdu makes both the J-7 series and the fc-1, and did not want two export aircraft to compete with eachother for sales.
 
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pngwerume

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I think there are inaccuracies. He has posted his email address so he is expecting some responces. maybe Invote him over to the forum.
 
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