As for China's military products, our neighbor India always has an attitude of envy, jealousy and hatred. Especially in terms of fighter jets, China has begun to export a large number of advanced fighter jets, and India itself is still importing advanced fighter jets from Russia. Recently, India's "Eurasian Times" published an article with a sour grape mentality, saying that Turkey is likely to be "forced" to buy "Thunder" fighters from China because it cannot buy advanced fighter jets from Europe and the United States.
Indian media said that because of Germany's opposition, Turkey's plan to buy 40 "Typhoon" fighters from Britain and Spain was officially shattered.
India: This is pure!
What level is the Thunder fighter in today's world?
Cheap, inheriting the cost performance of the rabbit family;
Open up part of the technology and production line;
With the technical upgrade of my rabbit, there is a lot of room for improvement in the future, especially avionics;
The property rights are all controllable, not afraid of being stuck by a third country, and there are domestic alternatives for engines and seats
can also please the current world's second and future world boss, and form a good fate;
And the strength of the performance is not listed for the time being.
The memoirs written by the Pakistan Air Force General give a complete description of the development of the Thunder.
The whole article is very interesting to read.
To roughly sum up, it was originally Pakistan's hope to get a 150 F16 to fight India's Mirage 5 through the United States' ** aid, and then buy a batch of J-7M from China to match with the F16 with a high bottom, originally F16 has come in two batches in a row, and J-7M exceeded the expectations of the Pakistan Air Force in the actual exercise process, and was ready to buy, but China owed a mouth, and came to the sentence: "As long as you want, we can help you make moderate improvements, customer first." What is going to die is that Pakistan has listened to all this sentence, but only heard less "moderate" These two words, the Pakistan Air Force seems to be enlightened, feeling that they should have an aircraft that meets their own situation, so they began to put forward various requirements to the Chinese side, and then the United States also wanted to get involved, and also participated, so back and forth, experienced all kinds of deceptive information, Sino-US tensions led to the cessation of project cooperation, Balabala and other things, Pakistan itself gave up, as a result, China did not give up or abandon, has been silently scribbling and repainting on the follow-up drawings of the Sino-US cooperation project, and finally came up with the dragon that blinded Pakistan。
It can be said that at the moment of seeing the Thunder Dragon, Pakistan is almost a mentality of picking up treasures.
So it doesn't matter what level it is, the important thing is that the performance index parameters of the Thunder are fully in line with the requirements put forward by the Pakistan Air Force, except for the range, but the Pakistan Air Force general also feels that it is nothing more than a problem of bringing an extra fuel tank.
This also confirms from the side what kind of spirit our Chinese military workers have in which they have silently accumulated and accumulated in those arduous years, and finally formed a large number of innovations in the technical equipment of the modern Chinese Air Force.