Why does it matter where the equipment comes from? Does it take anything away from the J-10’s performance that its engine is Russian?
Does the fact that the first couple of batches of LCAs will have US engines make it any worse in performance if had Indian engines? An Israeli IRST or HMCS will work fine on an Indian plane as it would on an Israeli plane.
What’s the big F-ing deal about where the equipment comes from as long as the system performs as per specs?
Also, there’s nothing taboo about comparing aircraft in development with existing ones if we limit our comparisons to the level of technology. There’s no point in comparing the FC-1’s performance with that of the F-16 because we know the F-16’s level of performance but don’t have a clue about the FC-1’s. But we can compare the level of technology of the FC-1’s engine with that of the F-16. We can compare the level of technology or sophistication of the FC-1’s radar (whatever it is) with that of an F-16 variant. We can compare the level of tech and sophistication of the FC-1’s MMI with that of an F-16 variant.
To make blanket statements like “the FC-1 should perform as well as an F-16XXX is pretty inane because there just isn’t any data points to make a valid comparison.
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