(Asien) Pakistanische Luftwaffe

[Skywalker]

Pakistan To Get 8 JF-17 Fighters from China Next Year

By AAMIR ASHRAF, REUTERS, KARACHI


Pakistan is set to get the first batch of eight medium-technology fighter jets from China next year and the country would start manufacturing them locally from January 2008, a senior military official said on Nov. 22.
“We shall...have the first two (JF-17 Thunder fighter) aircraft on March 23rd, while the remaining of the first batch of eight aircraft will also arrive next year,” Air Marshal Khalid Choudhry, Chairman of Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, told Reuters.

Quelle: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2375924&C=asiapac">http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F= ... &C=asiapac</a><!-- m -->