Airframe based on the MiG-21

>airframe based on the MiG-21
>russian engine
>designed with assistance from Mikoyan
>...
>Jow Forums thinks it is an F-16 clone
lmao

I mean it's clearly better than pure slavshit but it's still got slav admixture.

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Retard

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which poofighter is better, the JF-17 or the Tejas?

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JF-17 seems to at least be working. It's also designed with non-poo assistance.

Dassault helped with the LCA

Doesn't Tejas have an absolutely piss-poor range?

Not exactly the gold standard of good combat planes either

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I kinda like it, it's a decent update
modern day calls for bomb trucks with legs
not short-ranged mach 2+ interceptors
Would buy if I can source a Western engine

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it looks like a mirage 2000 except the wings are moved up

Best thing about all of this is that both sides operate Mirages and MiG-21s (well, Chinese MiG-21s in the case of Pakistan).

It has half the combat range the Gripen has... with drop tanks.

It also has no in-flight refueling capability (supposedly on the three times as expensive Mk1A).

its actually based on the mig rip off of the F-176

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and...you know, not a tailless delta

no it's not and you're a moron.
It's from the Super 7 project.

mikoyan sold all product 33 data to the chinese in the mid 90s.

i was just commenting from that particular angle

Why doesn't India just buy the Gripen? Gripen could deal with a JF-17 much better than an obsolete MiG-21 flying junk.

SAAB is very hesitant to use bribery since Bofors got fucked up by it when they had to bribe the Indian Army to sell howitzers and SAAB was already indicted for using bribery in securing the South Africa contract.

And Antonov is now like half Chinese owned. Doesn't mean the Y-20 is an An-70.
JF-17/FC-1's lineage is very well documented.

>Why doesn't India just xxx
do you really need to ask?