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Originally Posted by syedjamilhaider
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grandestrategy.com/2007/06/light-sabre-for-third-world-fc-1-jf-17.htmlGrande Strategy: A Light Sabre for the Third World: The FC-1 / JF-17
However, there is a caveat. The FC-1 is unlikely to get to these sales figures with the RD-93.
The bottleneck is not just Russian politics, but the quality and reliability of the engine itself. One cannot viably create a single fighter success story with an engine that has a rejection rate of 33% rejection rate, low MTBF, and costs more than the AL-31. The Taishan engine is ideal in this regard as it also opens up a future maintenance legacy, given that it will be used in the future Chinese twin-engined fighter.
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Erm no, there is no caveat. Regardless of whether it gets a new engine or not, the JF-17 will be lucky if it breaks the 500 mark especially in this credit crunch.
North Korea order 200???
Whoever came up with this list was obviously having a laugh.
