Wen Junjian.
According to reference news and other ** reports, Turkey, a NATO ally of the United States, began to look at buying the Thunder Dragon 3 fighter jointly developed by China and Pakistan when it could not get F-16 fighters. And this has also made the attention of Thunder Dragon 3 rise, and now Thunder Dragon seems to be more favored.
In the recent Indus Shield 2023 military exercise, Pakistan's JF-17 Thunderbolt 3 and China's J-10C were both engaged in on-site training, while Saudi Arabia's American-made F-15 SA and Turkey's American-made F-16C D were also present. There are foreign military enthusiasts who claim on social **Thunder Dragon 3 shined on the scene this time and was directly crushedf-15sawithf-16c/d。In particular, phased array radars are combined with self-protection jamming pods (spj) to letf-16and other models feel "hard to match".
Related Social ** also claimed,Pakistan may be working for a pennyRack DragonIt is expected that the "first customer" of the Thunder 3 will likely be a Middle Eastern country with close defense ties with Pakistan. As for who this mystery buyer is, it is unclear. This news is easy to think of Turkey, which has already said that it wants to buy the Thunder, but with the fame of the Thunder, there is currently news that Iraq, Azerbaijan and other countries are also interested in introducing it.
Indus Shield-2023" military exercise, in which the two main aircraft of the Pakistani side were present).
There are also two "tyrant countries" to consider here, that is, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, although these two are also considered Middle East allies of the United StatesBut both Saudi Arabia and the UAE are fond of Chinese equipment. Saudi Arabia's F-15 SA has learned the power of the Thunder 3, and Saudi Arabia itself has the practice of purchasing Chinese drones and other armaments;And the Dubai Air Show in the United Arab Emirates, the Thunder 3 also participated, and the UAE also bought China's L-15, so if Saudi Arabia and the UAE also quietly turned to buy the Thunder 3, it is really not an accident, after all, seeing is believing, China's technology is as advanced as this, and it is definitely worth buying.
The reason why the Thunder 3 is so popular is actually because the Chinese technology amazed the audience. According to publicly available data,Used in Thunder 3KLJ-7A active phased array radar, the detection range can reach 1kilometers or so, it can be said that the combat performance is comparable to fequipment. If it is equipped with equipment such as SPJ, as well as advanced missiles, it should be able to compete with India's Su-30MKI.
In fact, this is only the technology that China uses for export, not to mention China's own technology, and the recent picture of the J-16 carrying a suspected Thunderbolt-17 missile has also attracted great attention from the outside world. The Thunderbolt-17 is believed to be capable of striking targets up to 400 kilometers away, and when combined with advanced phased array radar, it is sufficient to achieve a powerful long-range offensive effect. If the Thunder 3 alone is enough to crush the F-16, then the combination of China's domestic fighters and domestic missiles is enough to make the United States feel that one head and two are big.