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.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nice they finally managed to outperform and old as fuck American jet fighter

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 15 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

they really out performance it, or it's just to justify the the jet bought

[–] filoria@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

It's justifying their purchase of the Next-generation Chinese jet, so I'll let you decide.

[–] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 2 points 10 months ago

It's a significantly newer plane it seems, and it is meant to be on par with the F35

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How is Khan a fascist? I'm genuinely curious.

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[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] carl_marks_1312@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

That article is non-materialist and was a pain to read as it was super bare In Information.

Nowhere in the article is an analysis why Khan is a fascist. The most interesting part was a one liner allegation that he got support form the wealthy but it wasn't expanded on. At the very end of this drivel the spiciest thing was that he seems to be misogynist (does that make him a fascist?)

And this one made him looked based:

Khan’s surging popularity is not all good news. He wants to rule with an iron fist and fantasises about a China-style political system. As prime minister, during a state visit to Beijing he said that in “western democracies, it is difficult to bring change as you are bound by rules and regulations. Democracies of today plan only for the next five years. The Chinese Communist Party achieved better without democracy.”

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah but if he gets coup'd he'll look like one next to whatever freak they find to replace him

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Good for them and good on China for democratizing access to stealth jet technology

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Don't think engine is bottleneck on J-31 production tbh

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah I wanna see how the broke army can afford stealth fighters when they literally ditched China's CPEC and shot their previous government just to get the chance to beg the USA for IMF loans.

PAF got J10Cs because the USA is never gonna sell Pakistan F-16s ever again. China doesn't even give them the domestic versions of their Fox 3s, they won't just hand out stealth fighters for free after getting blown off by a COAS who only answers to american dollars.