Posted on 05/19/2011 5:58:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday.
China and Pakistan have jointly produced the JF-17 aircraft, but the new planes would be equipped with more sophisticated avionics, the officials said. The latest jet fighters would be paid for by China, they said.
The announcement came as Pakistan’s already tense relations with the United States soured further after the killing of Osama bin Laden deep inside Pakistan on May 2.
Last week, Pakistan’s spy chief denounced the United States in a rare briefing before Parliament in which he condemned the American raid for breaching Pakistan’s sovereignty. Parliament, in turn, called for the government to revisit relations with the United States.
Mr. Gilani’s visit to Beijing served as a pointed reminder of Pakistani suggestions that the government might seek to recalibrate relations with the United States, using China to offset what many here view as an overdependence on Washington.
The United States has provided Pakistan with some $20 billion in aid, mostly military, for its cooperation in fighting terrorism since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Much of that aid has come in the form of reimbursements for Pakistani counterterrorism operations.
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Seems world peace is breaking out everywhere.
How did they pay for them 1 US Helicopter?
Paid for with the remains of a stealth helicopter.
19 seconds. You must type quicker than I do.
Pretty good deal for the poks.
Jets probably cost less than one months interest payments from US to China. Look for the label that says, “Made in China but paid for by US”.
Is $20 million the F-16 special price for Pakistan? Does it come with steak knives?
Well it’s official now China is at war with the USA
That exploded helicopter was worth something. Good thing our ally Pakistan called China for the towing costs.
By far, The F15 is the best fighter n the world. Except when a Raptor killed 5 of them in a dogfight. The Eagles never saw what killed them.
That is scary. The J17 is a snack.
Reading all of your rants is such fun, guys :).
Grow up people! The Chinese animal, regardless if the red ones, the white, or the blue one’s, are all filthy business people to the core. And, no less greedy than that of their American counterparts, their only interest is the bottom line. Follow my drift here guys?
Now, if they had indeed promised the Pakis 50 jets, no strings, a scenario that I doubt because I don’t believe in free lunches anywhere in this world — ever consider then what 50 of these planes can do for the bottom line of Chengdu Aeronautics if...
“these planes proves to keep or challenge NATO from establishing its next no fly zone — a possibility that always exist?”
It’s free advertisement for the Chicoms, guys. Something that’s worth way way more than some obsolete technology now being applied to chopper applications. Ever give that idea any thought, guys?
It’s known as “marketing strategy”!
The Chicom’s objective, guys, just like that of the Soviets when they gave the Chicoms and the Kim’s their MiG-15’s, on credit, during the Korean war, is to prove the worth of the yet unproven MiG-15.
Now, will NATO give the Chinese this opportunity to prove the worth of its JF, or to disprove it?
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