big difference ! dont backtrack now, by claiming that you said “No longer the most important thing”. the point is that you basically said that a 3-gen aircraft with decent avionics can do what a 4-5 th gen fighter that is a better platform, can do. and that is so not true ! a good new-gen platform holds a lot of advantages, weight wise, performance wise, strength wise, over an older all-metal frame. only avionics cant make up for deficiencies of the platform.

for instance a Jag wont ever become a superb dogfighter, whether you put a radar on it or not. Im not saying that the FC-1 is equivalent to the Jag, but just having the overall layout of the F-16, does’nt make it an F-16.

silly ? It was you who claimed that the platform does’nt even matter !!!

go tell that to the makers of new-generation jets ! that all the research and work that they’ve put into new structural materials and technology is all a waste. why ? coz the PAF can match those jets with a 3-gen Chinese built jet with an avionics fit provided by some Western companies !

but pirate, AW&ST also has reporters like Neelam Matthews who simply lift reports out of newspapers, with all their inaccuracies and print them without even double-checking it. I’ll look for an article in it where Neelam Matthews made such glaring errors of designation of equipment, that it made the article look like a total DDM piece of work.

to me, both look like they could again be made flightworthy with some repairs. not a very thorough job of destroying these aircraft is it ? probably just a warning and a let off by the French.

Pirate, any idea what the source of these satellite pics is ?

anyone who knows anything about aircraft will realise the platform is no longer the most important part of an air defence system, its what we put inside it

yeah, so it basically puts the FC-1 on par with the MiG-21 Bison, does’nt it ? no new materials or technology (basically all metal) for its structure, Chinese avionics 😀 , and already known flight characteristics (remember all the stunts in the first flight test itself ! with a few BVR weapons makes it about as smashing as our Bisons.

and u’re a top student ? 😀 . internet is a great means to cloak one’s real self nai ? 😀

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