Curious to see whether they are able to produce engines in sufficiently large volumes, and, which engines these exports will receive.
Allegedly, the WS-19 entered production earlier this year, but presumably, those are all destined for domestic J-31/35 production, and exports will continue to use the WS-13E.
Don’t think engine is bottleneck on J-31 production tbh
Khan got couped by the US for leaning toward non-alignment and trade with Russia. Will the US sponsored coup regime get couped themselves for a weapons deal with China?
Imran Khan is no saint. Fascists usually have it coming for themselves.
How is Khan a fascist? I’m genuinely curious.
You might want to read this article. Sadly, some of the more crucial points are missing, which are on the r/pakistan subreddit. I’ll add them below if I can find them.
I don’t see anything in there which points to Khan being fascist. I agree that he’s no saint, but was a whole lot better than the US-backed military regimes Pakistan has now and has often had going all the way back to independence.
Taking control of the countries’ institutions and making trade deals that benefit the people of the countries involved rather than western capitalists is the first step towards national liberation, and that’s what I understand Khan tried to do, even if he was at times hamfisted about it. That’s also why he ended up getting couped and now faces trumped up charges.
Following the recent war games where, according to Pakistan, the Chinese fighters comprehensively outperformed the F-16, looks like Pakistan is investing more heavily in Chinese aircraft.
Nice they finally managed to outperform and old as fuck American jet fighter
No joke, 50th anniversary of the first F16 flight is coming up very soon.
Granted the guts of that plane have been upgraded over and over, but still.
leave it up to lemmitors to think all F-16 planes were all made in 1978 and haven’t gone through decades of upgrades
china will probably not have to worry about outperforming the F-35 considering how much of an unreliable piece of shit it is
they really out performance it, or it’s just to justify the the jet bought
It’s a significantly newer plane it seems, and it is meant to be on par with the F35
It’s justifying their purchase of the Next-generation Chinese jet, so I’ll let you decide.
Good for them and good on China for democratizing access to stealth jet technology
