JF-17/FC-1 Fighter Aircraft thread

Dizasta1

Dizasta1

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Well this certainly welcome news. Azerbaijan and Egypt will give the JF-17 Program a great deal of boost in marketing the aircraft further. Egypt's fighter fleet set up, resembles more and more like what India
gelgoog said:
Egypt used to buy weapons from the Soviet Union mostly back when Nasser was in power. But with the Camp Davis accords they get USA funds annually which can be used to purchase USA manufactured weapons similarly to Israel. That is likely how they got those F-16s in the first place. However after the "Spring Revolution" they had which put the Muslim Brotherhood in power, I think that might have chilled their relations with the USA a bit. Allegedly they also get funded on occasion by Saudi Arabia to buy weapons. Then there is the fact that they are a known proliferator of weapons technology. They sold Soviet MiGs to the Chinese and the USA in a covert fashion in the past for example. It could simply be that Saudi Arabia is paying for these JF-17s as some kind of indirect handout to Egypt and Pakistan. Pakistan is the only Islamic country with nuclear weapons.
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Saudis also financed Egypt's purchase of Mistral Helicopter Carriers and Rafales.
 
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gelgoog

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timepass said:
May I know the notion of your this statement....

Wondering is that necessary, while the discussion is going on for JF17 acquisitions...

What's your agenda here...
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No agenda. It is just that it is a widely known secret that the Saudis have DF-21 missiles and the warheads are stored in Pakistan. It is also said that the Saudis helped fund the Pakistanese nuclear weapons program in the first place. So it does not stretch belief if they supported the JF-17 acquisition by Egypt like they did with the Mistrals. Egypt has not exactly been swimming in money lately and there are rumours that the Saudis want them to fight in Yemen too.
 
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AndrewS

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gelgoog said:
No agenda. It is just that it is a widely known secret that the Saudis have DF-21 missiles and the warheads are stored in Pakistan. It is also said that the Saudis helped fund the Pakistanese nuclear weapons program in the first place. So it does not stretch belief if they supported the JF-17 acquisition by Egypt like they did with the Mistrals. Egypt has not exactly been swimming in money lately and there are rumours that the Saudis want them to fight in Yemen too.
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That's interesting.

The Saudis have nuclear warheads stored in Pakistan?
 
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Aliph Ahmed

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gelgoog said:
No agenda. It is just that it is a widely known secret that the Saudis have DF-21 missiles and the warheads are stored in Pakistan. It is also said that the Saudis helped fund the Pakistanese nuclear weapons program in the first place. So it does not stretch belief if they supported the JF-17 acquisition by Egypt like they did with the Mistrals. Egypt has not exactly been swimming in money lately and there are rumours that the Saudis want them to fight in Yemen too.
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Please stop this non sense and baseless indian and anti Pakistan entities' generated crappy propaganda. This is not bat rat shit forum.

I am sure LCA is also a super duper plane in your mindset.
 
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gelgoog

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Actually I think the LCA has been a protracted program and has produced subpar results. Like other projects in India's procurement. This is the problem with today's SJW attitude. We cannot even call things by their names and people get offended easily. It stifles discussion for no good reason at all. The DF-21 Saudi missile purchase is documented fact. The other things I said are also quite strongly based rumours. Supposedly the Saudis got the missiles first as insurance against Iraq's missile stockpiles and later Iran. But we digress.

It is certainly welcome that the JF-17 has had more exports. It has a lot of further export potential especially for countries which want to safeguard their airspace. There had already been orders for Nigeria and Myanmar. So once you add Egypt and Azerbaijan that increases the tally significantly. Sales to an ex-Soviet Republic like Azerbaijan might also open up further sales to other countries in the region which traditionally bought Russian hardware.
 
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ougoah

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Aliph Ahmed said:
Please stop this non sense and baseless indian and anti Pakistan entities' generated crappy propaganda. This is not bat rat shit forum.

I am sure LCA is also a super duper plane in your mindset.
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He said nothing of the LCA and you are the only one here making this into a "bat rat shit" forum. Explain what you think is incorrect and why it is so.
 
Dizasta1

Dizasta1

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Guys the analysis from all sides is appreciated, however we are missing the point here and that is not to deviate from the subject being discussed, JF-17 Thunders. We could've had this discussion Saudi links to nukes stored in Pakistan, in the Pakistan Military thread. Please stick the thread title where applicable.
 
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