JF-17 PFX program

My friend, your wishes go beyond some basic common sense.

You try to guess.
Why is it that the minimum configuration of all 5th-Gen fighters in service, under development, and in the pipeline around the world are two medium thrust engines? They are at least medium fighter class. (J-35 / KF-21 /AMCA)
Why is it that no country has proposed a 5th-Gen fighter program with a single medium thrust engine program (light fighter)?

------UCAV is not in that range.
SU-75 checkmate.

That’s a single engine project. Turkey had a single engine design for TFX too.

Although, light weight 5th Gen don’t make sense since the body won’t be able to accommodate many internal hps which would eventually lead to external mounts at the expense of Stealth
 
I may not know the numbers but I do know there were non-Pakistani and non-Chinese from the Asian continent staying/visiting Kamra well into the development/in service of Block-2.
That would be the bhutanese
 
Diomand shape wings.
Low angle Stablizer
No engine exposed from below.

That's YF23 black widow.
It was likely the better design from ATF competition. Lost out due to Northrops cost overruns.

And since it is a design that works and lower rcs than raptor - math is math - why not build it? But I am VERY certain that isn’t going anywhere and is possibly someone sending the picture of YF-23 to the fiberglass model maker so they can put something there for show when higher ups and other folks come to the display.
 
It was likely the better design from ATF competition. Lost out due to Northrops cost overruns.

And since it is a design that works and lower rcs than raptor - math is math - why not build it?
It's not design only in stealth.

EW suite, Material used, radar dome used, engine inlets and outlets that makes a stealth fighter...

If it was only design... India Pakistan China would have copied it already
 
It's not design only in stealth.

EW suite, Material used, radar dome used, engine inlets and outlets that makes a stealth fighter...

If it was only design... India Pakistan China would have copied it already
Yes and that is all becoming more proliferated knowledge.
The issue isn’t knowing what to build - it’s being able to both know how to build it in terms of process and being able to build it by having everything needed in that process.
 

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