{"id":5825,"date":"2018-10-25T17:33:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2018-10-25T17:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:36:57","slug":"pakistan-to-sell-jf-17-to-nigeria-for-184-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/pakistan-to-sell-jf-17-to-nigeria-for-184-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to sell JF-17 to Nigeria for $184.3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan\u2019s government has provided a $184.3 million sovereign guarantee for the sale of three JF-17 fighters to Nigeria.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pakistan now has its second international customer for its domestically assembled JF-17 \u201cThunder\u201d multirole fighter jet after Myanmar.<\/p>\n

Pakistani government’s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved sovereign guarantee certificate over the sale of three JF-17 jets to Nigeria for a sum of $184.3 million, a local media reports.<\/p>\n

Nigeria and Pakistan had recently signed an agreement over the sale of JF-17\u2019s for the Nigerian Air force.<\/p>\n

Country’s Ministry of Defence Production informed the economic decision-making committee that the PAC Kamra had signed a contract for the sale of three JF-17 aircraft and associated package to Nigerian Air Force.<\/p>\n

Nigerian authorities had been informed that the Government of Pakistan would issue a certificate of sovereign guarantee rather than a certificate of sovereign bank guarantee, and the Nigerians had agreed to it, the ministry was told.<\/p>\n

JF-17<\/span><\/h3>\n

JF-17 \u201cThunder\u201d multirole fighter is a single engine, lightweight, multipurpose combat aircraft that was developed jointly by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation (CAC) of China and Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) of Pakistan. It has a combat radius of up to 1,200 kilometers without refueling and can reach a maximum speed of up to Mach 1.6.<\/p>\n

The medium-sized aircraft is built mainly to meet the needs of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and will replace its current aging fleet of Nanchang A-5, Chengdu F-7P \/ PG and Dassault Mirage III \/ V fighter aircraft.<\/p>\n

The aircraft is capable of carrying a weapons payload of over 3.5 tons and can be armed with a variety of air-to-air, air-to-surface, and anti-ship missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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