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[gusto]

Delivery by the end of this year. They are coming, get ready.

@Pakistan Space Agency
you got another, update your list please.

by the way, hell of a work man. how did you do that?

 

[airomerix]

If Pakistan wanted to build aircraft engines, it would build them like it built the atom bomb.

Aircraft engines is not considered some critical tech that Pakistan must have for it's own survival. It's availability is out there. It's just economics.

Luckily, Pakistan has never been in a situation where it has had half of squadron of fighter aircraft without engines in them.

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I dont believe so. You're comparing apples and banana's.

A nuclear weapon is merely a small insulated box with a perfectly timed 'dance' of neutrons. The chemistry does most of the work. There are small nuclear weapons, and larger ones. The creativity that goes into their engineering and their intended use is somewhat classified- and ancient so to speak.

The jet engines are a different story. Their engineering has to withstand the test of time. How loud they can get, on wing time, how far it can take the aircraft, metallurgy, MPD cycles, power production etc. It is much more complex and requires sustained innovation. Heck, US has barely improved their WMDs and its delivery platforms- minute mans.

An analogy for you-Atomic weapon is; study for an year for CSS- you crack it- you become an officer- you make it. You climb ladder here and there. Sure. You 'let' 196 countries build it- half of them can and might.

Manufacturing jet engine is like studying for medicine. Years of study to perfect that angle of the titanium blade, years of study to finally blend in that composite structure that can sustain 5000+ hours of sub-sonic \ super sonic flight without causing rupture.

Pakistan cannot replicate a toyota's 2GR-FE V6 engine at the level of OEM reliability for instance.

These are different games.