Thread: Britain to ‘Beef Up’ Defense of Disputed Falkland Islands

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by koman

now they have acquired Chinese supersonic bombers instead.

No they are not bombers. Fighter jets;

The PAC JF-17 Thunder, or CAC FC-1 Xiaolong, is a lightweight, single-engine, multi-role combat aircraft developed jointly by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation of China.

Ok, I did not know that; I thought they were replacing bombers with bombers, but they are not really bombers, they are multi-role...

Anyway the question still remains, why would they have wanted bombers in the first place?

Replacing Russian bombers with Paki/Chinese fighters is an odd switch. Like setting out to buy a five ton truck and coming home with a Honda Civic or something....

I read up a bit on them. They sound OK, but not world beaters by any means. They are described as a "low cost alternatives to more expensive western fighters" ...whatever that actually means.

Originally Posted by koman

I read up a bit on them. They sound OK, but not world beaters by any means. They are described as a "low cost alternatives to more expensive western fighters" ...whatever that actually means.

A bit like India's Tata Maruti,
The brakes don't work.