No its not.
The whole point is to wean out foreign subsytems eventually.
Which is what we are doing.
You can cry about how all it started and presume to think that after all those foreign inputs all development from our side has remained static but it isn't so.
It is indigenous by way of all our R&D that has gone into the current subsystems that have far surpassed most foreign input at the time of inception.
And Tejas', advanced iterations all are in road to have further more indigenous systems in it like Uttam AESA, Astra BVR, etc.
Can you say the same for JFT's Blk 3?
MKI is barely a joint project, yet throughout the years we have ended up making a decent few subsystems in it.
How many critical subsystems has pak contributed in the "Joint"F-17 since the 90s?
No we can't, and we don't presume to either.
Pak has ipr of what?
Paint.
Pak has no contribution in any significant part of the JFT, I hope you are not asking people to believe that the shrewd chinese would just let you have their ipr which they themselves have acquired through the utmost difficulty?
C'mon you aren't even fooling yourself with that rhetoric.
Like this?
This is a recent image too and it still looks like china is doing the lion's share of the work.
Even if we give pac the benefit of the doubt, at most it is still sticker-screwdriver tech and I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary.
I see pakistanis use broad non specific terms like "__% of JFT in pakistan" or "produces" or "can manufacture" all the time, but hardly have I ever seen them be confident and specific as to what these pakistani parts actually are.
Lets look at MKI for a moment.
MKI was inducted into the IAF back in 02 and till now we have these contributions it it.
- Mission Computer cum Display Processor – MC-486 and DP-30MK (Defence Avionics Research Establishment – DARE)
- Radar Computer – RC1 and RC2 (DARE)
- Tarang Mk2 Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) + High Accuracy Direction Finding Module (HADF) (DARE
- IFF-1410A – Identification Friend or Foe (IFF)
- Integrated Communication suite INCOM 1210A (HAL)
- Radar Altimeter – RAM-1701 (HAL)
- Programmable Signal Processor (PSP) – (LRDE)
- Multi Function Displays (MFD) – Samtel/DARE
Pak on the other hand was involved with the FC1 since the 90s.
What do you have in JFT that is even remotely close to the above?
Sure you "did".
How well you "did it" now that's the real question.
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