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Is your biggest strategic worry cash? Is your airforce rearing to go but no planes to fly? Well then IDS have just the solution...

THE JF-17 "THUNDER" Officially known as the FC-1.

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Name: "JF-17" (Joint Fighter-17) Code Name: "Thunder"
Type: Single Seat Multirole Day/Night Fighter

Over View:

Project JF-17, is designed to further meet budget Air Forces tactical and strategic needs with the least reliance on imports from other countries. In addition to that to design a plane that meets its on requirements with lots of room for upgrades. JF-17 is considered to be Medium-tech or possibly low-high-tech class.

Technical Details:

Super Seven is a light weight, multi-role day-night, all weather fighter with max TO weight 12,700kg, max speed 1.6M, ceiling 16,500m, max weapon load 3,900kg, range 3,000km. It uses Russian RD-93 turbofan engine, which is an upgrade of RD-33, this RD-93 turbofan engine is also used in Russian MiG-29 it is claimed to 80-85% as capable as American F-16 and highly aerial maneuverability as its key features. RD-93 engine used in JF-17 is build in China with Russian license. The aircraft can also be fitted with an in-flight refueling probe and a deck arrester hook. This will increase its striking range beyond 3,000km.

Avionics:
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JF-17 will be fitted with Italian Grifo S-7 fire-control radar. The Grifo S-7 radar system is specially designed for the JF-17 it has 25 working modes and a non-break-down time of 200 hours. Grifo S-7 radar system is capable of look-down, shoot-down, as well as for ground strike abilities. In addition to that it includes new digital dual fly-by-wire (FBW) system and a true Beyond Visual Range (BVR) attack capability.

Weapon Systems:

JF-17 is designed to be fitted with vast array of weaponry. It has a total of seven store stations, one under the fuselage and six under the wing with a maximum weapon load of 3,800kg.

JF-17s primary air to air weapon is a medium range SD-10 Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile. Other weapons it can carry are short and medium range AAMs (Anti-Air Missiles) like AIM-9P/PL-9/Magic 2 and PL-11/Aspide/AIM-7E etc. In addition to that it can carry wide array of high and low drag bombs, laser guided bombs, runway penetration bombs and cluster bombs for air strikes.

Status Update:

FC-1/JF-17 prototype (serial number "01") conducted its first official test flight on September 3rd, 2003. The plane took off from Wenjiang Airport in Chengdu and stayed in air for about eight minutes. This prototype rolled out from the assembly line on 31 May 2003. On 1 July the it completed its first taxi run test at the test airfield in CAC(Chinese Aeronautical Complex).

Specifications:


Crew One
Wingspan 9.00 m
Height 5.10 m
Length 14 m
Weight Empty 6,321 kg, Normal take-off 9,100 kg, Max take-off 12,700 kg, Max weapon payload 3,800 kg
Max. Weapon Load 3,600 kg
Max. Speed Mach 1.6
Range Ferry range 3,000 km; Operational Radius 1,355 km
Service Ceiling 16,500 m
G Limit 8.5

And the best Bit Cost: Just a measly $10,000,000. per unit.

Intrested nations please state your orders.

pic's?

Bah, my storefront has better fighters for cheaper.

Ordering 20 JF-17's for 200 million dollars, to replace our ageing MiG-23's.

You are 3 days old and you already have outdated Migs? Cool..

We completely lack any structure or aircraft for our airforce.
We are currently organizing the size of our operational units aswell as establishing flight bases, but we would surely be intrested as we have no means to produce aircraft for ourselves as of yet.

We would like to purchase 16 of these Aircraft as a base for our own airforce.

Ordering 20 JF-17's for 200 million dollars, to replace our ageing MiG-23's.

Delivery Invoice:

JF-17 "Thunder" x20 @10,000,000 Per Unit. = 200,000,000.

FOB- Freight On Board. Delivery 6 Months.

Thankyou for doing business with IDS. We are sure you will be please with the quality of our products.

Leon Kennedy
Assnt Vp Sales.

We completely lack any structure or aircraft for our airforce.
We are currently organizing the size of our operational units aswell as establishing flight bases, but we would surely be intrested as we have no means to produce aircraft for ourselves as of yet.

We would like to purchase 16 of these Aircraft as a base for our own airforce.

Delivery Invoice:

JF-17x16@10,000,000=160,000,000.

FOB [Freight On Board] Delivery 5 Months. As a gesture of goodwill and to increase the effectiveness of your fledgling airforce we kindly offer flight instructors to train your pilots.

Thankyou for doing business with IDS.

Ahh we gratefully accept your most kind offer, and money for the aircraft has already been wired. We shall begin organising units at once, the first airfield has already been built.

Yours Truly King Robert Rimes of The Knights of Falmir