JF-17/FC-1 Fighter Aircraft thread

asif iqbal

asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
Zahid said:
About production rate: I do not think much of the "matching retiring rate" line. It seems to be a face-saving statement more than anything else. Many of PAF's Mirage III/IV need to go ASAP. Moreover, anyone with a bit of background in industrial production can tell what happens to Overhead & Fixed costs per unit when production rate takes a dip. Investing in infrastructure, training man-power, maintaining administrative setup, etc... for making 20+ planes a year and then producing only 7 units can not be for sake of matching rate of retiring.

Bottom line is that Government of Pakistan having been hostage to a cartel / coalition of corrupt politicians for the last so many years has impacted JF-17 program really hard. Our financial situation under new government seems to be improving and combined with a push for export of JF-17 / FC-1 we can hope for better progress of JF-17 program.
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And I can tell you the naval JF-17 with C802 will be a very wellcome addition to the navy I bet they are really looking forward to operating them

The current fleet of naval Mirage 5 are very old and even although they have been through many overhauls they are becoming obsolete

The Exocet is a killer missile no question about it but the numbers in PN are limited and they are deemed precious by the navy, so much so that they don't even carry live Exocets anymore they are always usually dummy's

having JF-17 for the navy will be great no limitation in flying hours no restraint on any weapons load and they can fly them all day if they so wish, having extending range and coverage by AWACS is also a very welcome boast for the navy

On the last count I think there was 154 Mirage of all variants operating in Pakistan air force and navy, some of them are really in good shapes thanks to Rose upgrade and also we have the night attackers too but a great many of them are in need for urgent replacement

Also we have over 100 F7 to replace, a great interceptor but also a aircraft the needs to go, we can see that the JF-17 production can easily be 250 aircraft

Also I hope we can stop relying so much on ground intercept now that we have both balance beam Erieyes and Rotodome ZDK-03 AWACS to direct fighters to where the action is

50 x JF-17 Block I in 5 years, that's not a bad considering it took 8 years for 18 x F16 C/D Block 52+ to arrive

Now if we get 50 x JF-17 Block II in 2-3 years we are then doing really really good

I am just happy we have competed the 50 Block I under these turbulent times with the new government throwing its weight behind the project I hope they pour resources and money into Block II and make it happen
 
asif iqbal

asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
Best part of the video is they showed 11-131 which is a unit I was looking for to add to my collection

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Blackstone

Blackstone

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Engines aside, what portions of the JF-17 does Pakistan's domestic defense industry build and what must be imported from China?
 
asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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Imposisble to answer since a fighter aircraft has thousands of parts and bolts, many numbers have been thrown around 58% , 75 % and even 95% but no one figure explains it

Check this video, gives you a small indication of the level of assembly PAC has, from scratch the whole aircraft is put togther the frame and structure, the PAC facility established all the machinery to build the parts of the airframe, from pipes to assemebly of the radar all done in house including integration and installation of the RD-93

All the videos and building info can be found in these videos which shows the modern state of the art facility's which builds and overhauls all aircraft of the PAF and manufacturing and assemebly of JF-17

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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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Blackstone said:
Asif- what avionics and weapon systems is the Pakistani defense industry producing?
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Again see the video entitled Avionics production factory the one at the bottom left in the above link PAC supply's all major avionics systems for aircraft operational in the PAF barring F16
 
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