debated a million times on this forum ? Show me a few of those threads please. I googled and found just 1.
You obviously seem to conveniently forget the endless flame wars that seem to emerge between the fans of south asia fighter A versus south asia fighter B :rolleyes:
And no Indian will take offence if someone says that Dassault’s initial consultancy as well as BAe’s P.106 designs had a hand in the LCA’s layout. In the days of its original design, India didn’t even have many wind tunnels to test out models in and it was a costly exercise to build models and schedule time at wind tunnels in France (ONERA) or other European countries. Help would’ve been taken gladly.
Wasn’t meant to cause offense, but to show your logic and pointless regurgitation of discussions held many times before, I suggest you traul through the countless PAF, PLAAF and IAF threads that have been locked due to flaming.
So why would it be so implausible that Romania shared the IAR-95’s designs with China or at least in some way influenced it ? They were both communist nations back then and several reports talk about MiG-33 designs having been sold to China as well. I can see that even suggesting that the FC-1’s strong resemblance to the IAR-95 may have had some more basis than just coincidence is pricking a lot of people.
It’s not implausible, simply highly unlikely given the very different nature of the two aircraft, different weights, dimensions etc, not to mention the developmental path of the JF-17.
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