Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has reportedly completed its preparations to purchase a second fleet of 36 J-10C fighter jets from the Chinese aircraft giant, Chengdu Aerospace Corporation (CAC).
According to reports, it will be PAF’s second order for the 36 J-10Cs, which it will place in the next 6-12 months, while the previous deal with Chengdu also involved the same amount of fighter jets.
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In total, PAF will be purchasing 72 units of J-10C, which will gradually be delivered until the end of 2026. By 2032, it intends to muster over 90 units of multi-role fighter jets.
It is worth noting that PAF received the first batch of J-10Cs (25 units) in March and the second batch (11 units) in September of this year.
More About Chengdu’s J-10C
The single-engine tail-less canard delta wing J-10C houses fly-by-wire flight controls and an AESA fire control radar. It is made of composite materials for higher strength and lower weight. Its internal armament consists of Gryazev-Shipunov (GSh) 23 twin-barrel cannon, installed underneath the port side of the intake.
Other weaponry and equipment are mounted externally on 11 hardpoints, to which 6,000 kg of either missiles or bombs, drop-tanks containing fuel, or other equipment such as avionics pods can be attached.
Air-to-air missiles (AAMs) deployed by the J-10C may include short-range AAMs such as the PL-8 and PL-10, medium-range radar-guided AAMs such as the PL-12 and PL-15, unguided and precision-guided munitions such as laser-guided bombs (LGBs), air-to-surface missiles (ASMs) such as KD-88, anti-ship missiles (AShMs) such as the YJ-91A, and anti-radiation missiles (ARMs) such as the YJ-91.
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J-10C worth nothing when leader ship is US puppet.
How are they a us puppet stop believing everything imran khan says
Ali farooq is right. Eventually, these jets are used to kill muslims in tribal areas rather than destroying Hindu soldiers in occupied kashmir.
What an idiot!
The leadership has nothing to do with defense matters and these equipment are inducted to protect our sovereignty! not to kill anyone…
Our country problem is not the leadership! the actual problem is people like Ali Farooq who seek their political interests in every single thing and if things are not happening according to their wishes than everything considering useless lol and major problem “disease” is the propaganda followers like Asif Maqbool who seems come from another planet where Mullah sayings are God’s words…
You people are the real reasons who never let Pakistan succeed…
This is a good move to induct a sizeable fleet of a Medium Weight Multirole fighter before an induction of 5th Gen Fighter in PAF fleet. This is better stop gap move especially with an uncertain future of PAF F 16s ageing fleet.