Oscar
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The IP is shared regardless of how many times you state it otherwise. That was the whole point of the project.Why Turkey? The IP for the JF-17 lies with China. And China has all the infrastructure in place to do the design for an enlarged JF-17.
So is there any new infrastructure being set up for Pakistan to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to development or is it going to be providing requirements to China and leaving it to them to design and develop a heavier, larger JF-17 variant?
BTW, is this confirmed?
Pakistan has been adding third party systems and avionics on its own since the inception of the project without Chinese assistance(sometimes to ill effect admittedly)
But as far as infrastructure goes its a mix of upgrades to allow for design and “fake it till you make it”
I don’t see an enlarged aircraft - just some minor changes with more Pakistani manufacturing involved (additional jigs imported for sections previously built in China)