Anyways, but on topic. The JF17 was designed as modular where the end customer can choose what they want. If Nigeria wants a Turkish pod and gets it, that’s a bigger selling point for the plane rather than a negative.
Pakistan prefer Martin Baker seats most likely because the rest of their fleet uses MB seats, so it makes perfect sense from a logistical and costs POV, but Chinese seats should be just as good if not better since they would have had taken the best from European and Russian ejection seats for their own domestic designs, and Russian ejection seats are very good, probably better than MB seats.
There is literally nothing the British can do to stop a JF17 sale if both China and Argentina wants to press ahead.
Something else to consider is that Argentina doesn’t actually need to achieve air superiority to win the Falklands.
A JF17 might struggle against a Typhoon, but the Argentines will have to be stupid to use their JF17s like that. All they need to do is do a mass launch of fighters and spam stand off missiles at the single airfield on the island. Doesn’t matter if the Typhoons based on the island scrambled or not, the only difference would be if they were destroyed on the ground or forced to ditch once they ran out of fuel.
If the British wants to send their carrier over, that might be a much bigger problem, but the Argentine Air Force can just spam AShMs at stand off ranges and hope to get lucky with minimal risk to the JF17. As long as China keeps delivering missiles, it’s a battle of attribution that will massively favour the attacker since the British Darlings don’t have a huge missile inventory and need to go a long way to rearm once those missiles are spent. Even if they can achieve 100% missile intercept rates, the carrier strike group would be forced to withdraw before long as its escorts run dry on missiles.
If China really wants to screw with the British, they would potentially offer the Argentines periodic location updates on the RN task ground whenever one of their recon satellites passes over.
