Anytime you have the opportunity to make big money, why ignore it? It helps finance your future projects, and selling planes to Pakistan gets your more margin per plane than PLA, who dictates your profit margin. Also gets to enhance your reputation worldwide, so you get more profitable export business. In any case, it's not like its soon. Its supposed to be around the end of 2009.
On the new article, some more thoughts. If China buys another 100 engines, then appears committed to fulfill a 300 engine preorder, kind of an order by intent, set years ago at the start of the J-10 program. Also its about time for them to make another order, since I would expect the last batch to be exhausted soon, and they're going to need spares and so on on the existing fleet.
On the other hand, the article is teeming with journalistic mistakes, I like to wait for another article to confirm what it just said. FI has done its share of boboos on Chinese affairs to say the least.
On the new article, some more thoughts. If China buys another 100 engines, then appears committed to fulfill a 300 engine preorder, kind of an order by intent, set years ago at the start of the J-10 program. Also its about time for them to make another order, since I would expect the last batch to be exhausted soon, and they're going to need spares and so on on the existing fleet.
On the other hand, the article is teeming with journalistic mistakes, I like to wait for another article to confirm what it just said. FI has done its share of boboos on Chinese affairs to say the least.
