Combat Aircraft Special: JF-17 THUNDER

摘要

Sanctions, coupled with financial issues, the main factors behind the jet's development, have also hindered its progress. It started as the Super-7 in the late 1980s, but with embargoes affecting the supply of western avionics, the project stalled for nearly ten years. It was up to the late Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Mushaf Ali Mir, who took over as Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) in November 2000 to solve the problem.