KAMRA, March 30: Pakistan will start serial production of multi-role JF-17 thunder aircraft in 2008, with the arrival of six more supersonic jets by the end of this year. Two JF-17s have already arrived and inducted in the Pakistan Air Force.
“We will induct 15 to 20 thunder aircraft next year as part of the programme to replace the aging French Mirages and Chinese origin F-7Ps and A-5s”, Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Tanvir Mehmood Ahmad told a press briefing here.