• filoria@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Following the recent war games where, according to Pakistan, the Chinese fighters comprehensively outperformed the F-16, looks like Pakistan is investing more heavily in Chinese aircraft.

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      11 months ago

      Nice they finally managed to outperform and old as fuck American jet fighter

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        11 months ago

        No joke, 50th anniversary of the first F16 flight is coming up very soon.

        Granted the guts of that plane have been upgraded over and over, but still.

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      11 months ago

      they really out performance it, or it’s just to justify the the jet bought

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        11 months ago

        It’s justifying their purchase of the Next-generation Chinese jet, so I’ll let you decide.