calm down Cheeta Ji.
MI-17 are like AK-47. you can buy / sell them on the cheap. Here is a news for ya! every body and their cousin sells the MI-17s. See how USA is buying these for Pak.
(http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aH4DzQLvSSJo)
As I said, we should be humble about our capabilities instead of f@rting and “door ki chorain”.
Any airplane can be looked at as 3 parts. Avionics, frame, engine. In case of fighter/bombers a fourth part aka weapon-delivery system+weapons is also there.
Every developed country who truly “manufactures” a war-plane, specializes in at least three of these areas and in most cases all 4.
So when a country A claims to “manufacture” a plane, we should see how good that country is in making at their own:
- Avionics
- air frame
- engine
- weapons + weapon delivery system.
CAC makes cheap imitations of Ruskie systems for the air-frame. Then they buy/smuggle Avionics, engines, weapon-delivery systems. Chinese can make crude versions of modern air-platform based weapons too.
Pakistan buys the air frame from China, then it is upto Pakistan to buy/smuggle Avionics, engines, weapon-delivery systems and weapons.
Some of these systems can be bought from Chines, sometimes we get lucky with European systems (like air-to-sea missiles), and sometimes we legally buy them from the USA (things like side winders, or tow for our gunships).
In essence Pakistan has the capability to take apart and assemble air plane kits. And that’s what we do in PIA’s boeing overhaul factory in Karachi too. Or in Kamra for the Chinese, US, and Euro made planes.
Still Pakistan is not fully capable of overhauling / upgrading our planes. Example: Turkish company is overhauling/upgrading all our old model F-16s.
So just keep the expectations realistic. Pakistan has not gone to aerospace age yet.
We can, but we ought to be humble, peaceful, and good students of real developed countries, just like Chinese are “very good students” of the USA / EU.
You gotta go and learn from the best (and not the ones who are students /trainees themselves).