Great, thanks for the info Multirole, much appreciated 🙂

Oh, thank you Rookh, what a relief! *Mumble mumble… must learn to formulate understandable sentences..*

lol Pardon, what was that you say? 🙂

About Thunder, is the potential sale to Egypt still on? And if so, anything new regarding this lately?

Seems like there’s an issue with the engine solution? And the Russian’s want to muscle in on the action?

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/awst/2010/11/15/AW_11_15_2010_p67-267241.xml&headline=China”s%20Role%20Evolves%20In%20Defense%20Exports

To all those Queen fans out there, I think you’ll like this 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aBS_ibRMJQ

A little hazy again, but shows the impressive agility of the aircraft, especially the take off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747WCJU7baI

To any Chinese speaking folk out there, any chance we could get a brief synopsis of this interview?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmuVXLK2QS4

Apparently, a JF-17 has been reported to be flying or in trials with the WS-13, a Chinese engine solution for the aircraft. It may be a while before that gets fully integrated for the JF-17, hence these additional RD-93’s for the first few batches.

http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/china-and-pakistan-push-chengdu-jf-17-fighter-for-export-25788/

Glad you like the pictures 🙂

I certianly don’t intend to do anything with the JF-17 🙂 … however, the PAF has stated they’re happy with the latest batch of avionics/weapons for the fighter, I can’t really say if this will change anytime soon or in the future. It does appear the intended French avionics/weapons package is off for the time being. I guess in theory anything is possible, but I think AMRAAMs on the JF-17 appears highly unlikley for now. For one, I think they’ve been acquired in too small numbers (~500 or so), so those will only really be used by the F-16s. And secondly, for the JF-17 to use the AMRAAM, it would ideally have to use some western/US avionics/radar package, which seems unlikely at the moment.

HQ-18/S300 and maybe other SAM systems, 25 JF-17s by the end of this year, and first ZDK-03…seems like quite a shopping list from China 🙂

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1599871.php/Pakistan-Air-Force-commits-to-Chinese-missile-fighter-systems

JF-17 take off clip, sharp bank to the left;

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjIyNzYxMDQ0.html

Ok, my bad regarding Erieye having 360-degree coverage. The KJ-200 is supposed to have radars located in the nose tip and tail, to overcome those blind spots and provide 360-degree coverage. I assumed the Erieye may have something similar.

http://cnair.top81.cn/surveillance/Y-8W_15.jpg

JF-17 flying display video, with interesting commentory.

http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20101116/102312.shtml

I don’t know about TOT, but the ZDK-03 was developed pretty much solely for export.

Is there any information regarding it’s capabilities? How does it compare to, say, the Hawkeye and the Erieye? Any figures on the range, endurance and number of consoles?

No real details as of yet, but it appears to be an AESA. So I assume it’s perhaps not a conventional mechanically steered rotadome, but rather fixed?

http://www.airforcesmonthly.com/view_news.asp?ID=2732