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Pakistan to ditch Chinese JF-17 jets and join Turkish KAAN fighter jet project
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Pakistan sent experts to revive Myanmar’s grounded JF-17 aircraft as fighting between the junta and rebels intensify
Pakistan Air Force has sent a technical team for the repair and maintenance of Myanmar’s JF-17 combat aircraft, a move that will help upgrade their defense partnership. This comes as Myanmar Air Force officials are […]
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JF-17 Blunder: Myanmar Grounds JF-17 Fighter Jets For Structural Flaws And Engine Problems
Most of the newly acquired Chinese and Pakistan-made JF-17 fighter jets that the Myanmar regime has delivered have been grounded due to technical malfunctions, according to analysts and former Myanmar Air Force pilots who monitor […]
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China Pitching JF-17 Thunder To Argentine Air Force, Can China Deliver Jets?
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Pakistan’s JF-17 Fighter Jet Is Doomed, Amid Crippling Sanctions On Russia
Pakistan Air Force is heavily dependent upon the JF-17 fighter jet whose Block-III version’s production in Pakistan was announced last week. The Block III version will feature an AESA radar, a targeting pod, and electronic […]
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Iraq Buys 12 Sino-Pakistani JF-17 Block III Aircraft
Iraq has signed a contract with Pakistani company to purchase an unspecified number of aircraft, believed to be JF-17 Block III. “We signed a contract with a Pakistani company to purchase aircraft,” Iraqi Defense Minister […]
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Pakistan Quietly Grounded All JF-17 Block I Fighters
According to a Pakistani report, 40 percent of JF-17 Thunder fighter jets of the Pakistan Air Force is grounded due to multiple reasons. Most grounded aircraft are Block I variants. In 1999, when Beijing and […]
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Structural Cracks Appearing on Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder’s Vertical Stabilizer
The Pakistan Air Force now faces serious difficulties. Its frontline fighter, the JF-17, developed with the help of the Chinese, has maintenance problems that are getting worse every day. The key reason cited for JF-17’s […]
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JF-17 Exposed: Why Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder Fighters Are Inoperable?
Co-produced by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the JF-17 Block III fighters will complete the trial by 2021. Pakistan has already built over 100 JF-17 fighters for its air force, […]
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Why the U.S. and UK Should Sanction Pakistan’s JF-17 Fighters?
On-going violence in Afghanistan has raised demands to sanction Pakistan for its support of the Afghan Taliban. Countries, which want a stable Afghanistan and believe in human values, must consider the option of such sanctions […]