I think PAF plans to maintain around 400 fighters of 3 types-JF-17, F-16, FC-20. But its worth remembering that these plans are not engraved in stone. As for the STEALTHY version, its unlikely. Though one should expect certain measures to reduce RCS in future variants.

rather than 1-risk of sanctions.

As for the female pilots i have seen a vid of F-7 flown by a female but not any other fighter type.

Finally a question. We now know that current JF-17 employs a data link. Most likely of chinese origin? But does anyone have more details about this?

C802A with a range of 180km is currently being integrated with JF-17. Should become operational over next 6-8 months alongside SD-10A & some PGMs.

The trivial things people discuss here defy all logic. JF-17 generated a lot of interest at the show, not because it was the best thing out there, but because it was something new. And people were curious.

As for pak/china production, any customer specific customisation-avionics/weapons-would be done by PAC, while the production quota would be determined by how busy the production/assembly lines are.

I third that. A number of PAF officials cited the above reason. My personal impression was that PAF would want the first international airshow display of JF-17 to be a fitting one.

ps. On the way to farnborough they refueled in saudi arabia, jordan, turkey and italy.

Please stop derailing the thread. If this was LCA, i bet we would be hearing the very same arguments but from opposite sides. Point being, give credit where due & learn to show respect even to your adversaries.

Calm down people. It could have been insurance-marketing depts. have their allocated budgets, and it usually costs an arm & leg to do it in the last minute-or radios or some other reason. It was displayed as flying and later changed to static-apparently on paf request. Whats the big deal? I tell you whats the big deal. HUGE EGOS which force us to highlight the minisculest +ve in our own anything -ve in our opponents’. Period.