LCA fighter is India's domestic light fighter, the Indian authorities for LCA fighter is quite high expectations, LCA fighter is also regarded as India's face product, in recent years India has also been in the global arms market to continue to promote its LCA fighter, but India's LCA fighter in the export process is not smooth, because almost no country will take the initiative to buy fighters from India, India's LCA fighter although it is a self-developed product, In addition to the strange development cycle, the core components still come from the United States. It is understood that LCA fighters use the same aircraft engines as the US Navy's carrier-based aircraft, although such performance can be guaranteed, but the number of LCA fighters produced in India depends on how many aircraft engines are supplied by the United States.
India's LCA fighters must meet the needs of naval aviation in addition to the needs of land-based aviation, and even this is a carrier-based aircraft, but India has not even figured out the aircraft of land-based warfare, and is eager to engage in carrier-based aircraft, and the effect is naturally not good. Today's India, in order to find the advantages of LCA fighters, does not hesitate to let the Indian media frantically smear the Thunder Dragon fighter, because from the positioning point of view, the positioning of the Thunder Dragon fighter and the LCA fighter is almost the same, and there has been competition between the two sides on the international arms sales platform, but the performance and export volume of the Thunder Dragon fighter are several times that of the LCA fighter.
According to a news reported by India's EurAsia Times, the current Myanmar Air Force battle sequence is equipped with JF17 Thunder Dragon fighters jointly built by China and Pakistan, and most of these JF17 Thunder Dragon fighters that were listed in the Myanmar Air Force in 2018 are already in a state of grounding, and India pointed out that some of the 16 JF17 Thunder Dragon fighters in the current Myanmar Air Force battle sequence have been grounded. The reason for the grounding is that the Myanmar military lacks technical expertise and the ability to solve related problems.
The price of the JF17 Thunder Dragon fighter is quite low, because the price of each Thunder Dragon fighter is only 15 million to 25 million US dollars, while the Myanmar military is a 25 million US dollar purchase of the Thunder Dragon fighter, the reason for the difference in price is also because of the different configuration of the Thunder Dragon fighter, the Myanmar military purchased the Thunder Dragon fighter is also a high-end version of the Thunder Dragon series of fighters. However, Pakistan has the most say in the performance of the Thunder Dragon fighter, which is still in continuous production and uses the Thunder Dragon fighter, so this is enough to prove that the Thunder Dragon fighter is no problem in quality.
In the latest version of the Thunder Dragon BLOCK III fighter, even AESA active scanning array radar has been used, while the Thunder Dragon fighter has also gained the attention of many countries in recent times, Iraq, Bolivia, Argentina have tried to buy the Thunder Dragon fighter, and China has continuously focused on the key moment of the Thunder Dragon fighter, and the Indian media pointed out that the quality problem of the Thunder Dragon fighter The purpose has been quite clear. Text/Iris