Argentine officials confirm joint-production talks over China’s FC-1 fighter

Richard D Fisher Jr, Paris – IHS Jane’s Defence Industry

23 June 2013

Officials from Argentine aerospace company Fabrica Argentina de Aviones (FAdeA) told IHS Jane’s at the 2013 Paris Air Show they have had multiple discussions with Chinese officials over potential co-production of the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) FC-1/JF-17 multirole combat aircraft.

Discussions are far from concluded, with FAdeA officials saying “technology transfer” issues remain a sticking point. Nonetheless, the discussions are the first formal effort that could lead to the co-production of a modern Chinese fighter in Latin America. FAdeA officials said the co-produced FC-1 could be called the ‘Pulqui-III’, recalling FAdeA’s Pulqui-II, Latin America’s first swept wing jet fighter, which was designed by Germany’s Kurt Tank for the government of Juan Peron.

http://www.janes.com/article/23497/argentine-officials-confirm-joint-production-talks-over-china-s-fc-1-fighter

it would be interesting if the deal did go through, but likely mirage f-1 will be their next temporary fighter until they can find an appropriate long term one and perhaps the f-1 can tide them over until they get what they really want… j-20.

Both countries suffered cuts during the ’80s and even more so come the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet still, the Harrier soldiered on, the Yak-41 got canned. Irrelevant?… Hardly.

lol, so the UK also lost 76% of its territory, half its population, half its gdp, and a good chunk of its defense industry?
okay…

I did read it and PhantomII has very valid points. The way I see it, they’re not his opinion, they’re actually factual just as mine are and they’re both totally different to yours. Funny how you failed to counter my posts.

By the way, just for record, the Harrier II is a totally different beast to the original design of the Harrier.

Just because I’m British doesn’t mean I’m a Pro-UK biased source. Got a problem with that, then that’s your issue.

calm down paul weston. if you feel phantoms points are valid then all your points are already invalid.
phantom clearly mentions the skills of yakovlev and the superiority of their latest vstol aircraft over the british who decided to go for imcremental improvements than a new design. the only thing that held yakovlev from blasting the brits out of the water were the economy..something which you feel is irrelevant lol.

Russia – Though behind Britain in the V/STOL & VTOL arena, the Soviets were able to come up with a variety of interesting designs showing that they too had the capability to produce aircraft in this category. The Yak-38, while not a superb performer, was a decent first start (operationally that is), and while it had a variety of well-known limitations, it was different enough from the Harrier to prove that Russia wasn’t just making a copy of the Harrier, but their own design that could’ve potentially been effective at what it was designed to do (intercept NATO MPA’s). I don’t mean to say the Yak-38 was outstanding by any stretch, but it was not a bad first attempt for the Russians, though perhaps not so much as the Harrier was for the Brits. The Yak-41 was certainly, until the advent of the F-35B, the pinnacle of fighter-type V/STOL aircraft. An immensely powerful engine, avionics and weapons on par with the early MiG-29 variants, and performance that far out-stripped the Harrier (not to mention being competitive with other conventional naval designs) meant that had it not been for the economic downturn in Russia, the Yak-41 could’ve been a viable naval fighter probably even today, and the fact that some of its technology is being used in the Lightning II is telling if you ask me.

EElightning, you should read this. an opinion from a non pro-UK bias source

Oh and for the record even if the thread was created as a mockery of me (I’ll never understand Y-20 Bacon), I still approve as I like the unique look of the Forger.

do you think I would make a mockery of you?
actually thread is a good excuse to have posters find pictures of loaded yak-38.
you can be amazed what people find that google cant