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PAKISTAN
Mica
AAM and RC400 radar for JF-17 fighter
Bruno Berthet, Assistant Director of the International
Development Department at the French Ministry of Defence, has confirmed that the
Pakistan Defence Ministry is in negotiations to acquire MBDA
Mica medium-range Air-to-Air Missiles (AAMs) and Thales
RC400 multi-mission radars to equip the new JF-17 Thunder fighters of the Pakistan
Air Force (PAF).
The PAF
expects this year to receive the first eight of the initial 150 production
JF-17s it has ordered, developed jointly by China’s Chengdu
Aircraft Industry Corporation and the Pakistan
Aeronau-tical Complex (PAC), in Kamra. The first 50 PAF aircraft will be
equipped with Chinese avionics and missiles. The PAC started series production
of the JF-17 on January 22, 2008 and expects to manufacture up to 250 aircraft
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