J-10 Thread III (Closed to posting)
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For their own defence purposes, or airshow, or evaluating the firepower of the aircrafts. And there is no such thing as so much fire power in defence and military.
And why can't Bangladesh AF have that much firepower? Is it a monopoly that only certain countries that belong to some elite club command good and fierce firepower?
plawolf
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Indeed, those are live missiles the J10A is packing. Definitely not what you want for a mock dogfight!
SteelBird
Colonel
Now, Bangladesh was requesting for LOAN, not paid by cash. This means the money is not in her pocket yet (we won't discuss if she will eventually pay for it or will ask China to write it off) which, in turn, means she has priority on other fields like rural area development, infrastructure, and so on. She really shouldn't spend billions of dollars which end up just hanging around for some decade and finally written off without actually using them in combat (unless she has urgent combat needs, then OK). If you're not rich enough, don't join a VIP club.
Information from Xiaomi (millet) from dingsheng military forum on the recent sino-pakistanis exercise. Don't know whether this is made up, Sao take it with a grain of salt.
1) Both J-10 and J-7 participated in the exercise.
2) PLAAF J-7s fought the PAF J-7s and Mirages to a tie.
3) J-10 won decisively against the Mirages and J-7s, which was expected.
1) Both J-10 and J-7 participated in the exercise.
2) PLAAF J-7s fought the PAF J-7s and Mirages to a tie.
3) J-10 won decisively against the Mirages and J-7s, which was expected.
Hyperwarp
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If you look carefully you'll see its a J-10A marked for the 2009 parade - .
Hyperwarp
Captain
Pakistani pilots are known to be brilliant when it comes to WVR comabt. So if the PLAAF pilots managed to tie or even come close that would be great news.
What I meant when answering to Hardware post was that there are many reasons why Bangladesh would want the planes (on loan or otherwise). And none of us here know exactly why they want it unless you have insider information. And who knows, they might need it for urgent combat needs, or they want to evaluate the fighter's capability and whatever.
broadsword
Brigadier
No country would buy a squadron of fighter jets for evaluation because there is no necessity to buy if they want to evaluate. Bangladesh is not known to have any insurgency of the sort that neighboring Burma has though it has terrorists and for that J-10 is not practical. You don't need to have insider information to rule out obvious needs.
TerraN_EmpirE
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Tags: China J-10; Pakistan Mirage; exercises; flying in formation;
is it just me or did someone do a poor job of trying to obscure the tail numbers? That yellow bar on the tail is where the aircrafts individual number should be. And the more I look at it the more I keep seeing of the ghostly spectre of a tail number.
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