Posted: 7/16/2010 7:02:34 AM EDT
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That is the tiniest intake I've ever seen. And doesn't this look like a plane that might have flown the skies of vietnam, not a modern day plane?
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Looks like a grippen and rafale got freaky. But it has a paki flag on the vert stab. It's a joint venture between the two nations. Pakistan got close with the Chinese after the US didn't deliver their F-16's back in the 90's due to them acquiring nukes. |
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Looks like a grippen and rafale got freaky. But it has a paki flag on the vert stab. Yeah, apparently it's a joint effort between China and Pakistan. Wiki link |
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Look at the Islamic moon and star on the tail. Hard to tell with the gray, but I think it's Pakistani. (Green field, moon, star, white stripe to the left...)
So now imagine a PRC jet with a Middle Eastern maintenance schedule. 
Although at least the labor to do something about taking a ball-peen hammer and smashing all those exposed rivets nice and flat will be cheap. 
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I wonder what the cost of one of these will be? There's a whole Quantity/Quality ratio that's important when looking at a AF , but at the rate China builds these things, its worthless. Of course, they'd be MUCH better off with just buying a bunch of SU27s or similar , and training their pilots but what's the fun of that when you could just use 1,000 mig 21s? It's like North Korea + |
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I wonder what the cost of one of these will be? There's a whole Quantity/Quality ratio that's important when looking at a AF , but at the rate China builds these things, its worthless. Of course, they'd be MUCH better off with just buying a bunch of SU27s or similar , and training their pilots but what's the fun of that when you could just use 1,000 mig 21s? It's like North Korea + They've got the J-10 as their new mainstay fighter. The J-17 is mainly an export aircraft and the PLAAF won't be using it too much. 
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Quoted: Quoted: It looks like the child of an F-105 that smoked, drank, took Thalidomide and smoked crack out of a lead bowl during pregnancy. Very nice  As clever as it was, I think I'll retract that statement.  It's a MiG-21 body with F-105-esque nose, wings and intakes. The weight is similar to a MiG-21, the fuselage looks like it's almost the same shape, save for the cockpit which appears to have been lengthened for increased visibility due to the relocation of the intakes. There have been RD-33 re-engines of MiG-21's done by Klimov in the past. I'm no expert, but I'd say that the fuselage is a modification of the J-7 (MiG-21 clone) design. Looking at the Saber II that was proposed by Northrop in the late eighties seems to confirm this. |