Pakistan-Myanmar Relations: Pakistan cheated Myanmar, supplied unfit fighter jet

Pakistan has cheated Myanmar. Pakistan has supplied unfit fighter jets to Myanmar. This has increased the tension between Myanmar and Pakistan. Myanmar-based Narinjara News quoted sources as saying that the JF-17 Thunder, a multi-role fighter aircraft supplied by Pakistan to Myanmar, was declared unfit and the military junta sent a stern message to Islamabad to answer for the blunder. Is. Pakistan supplied several JF-17 Thunder fighter jets to Myanmar between 2019 and 2021 and all have been declared unfit for operation.

The delivered aircraft were part of a deal the Burmese military regime signed in 2016 to buy JF-17s jointly built by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and Chengdu Aircraft Industries Corporation of China. But soon after the delivery of the aircraft, the Burmese Air Force was forced to ground the planes when defects and structural flaws were discovered. The JF-17 failure appears to have escalated tensions between Islamabad and Naypyidaw and somehow forced China to intervene. According to Narinjara News, the recent visit of the Chinese envoy to Myanmar to Naypyidaw contained a message from the top leadership of the CCP to General Min Aung Hlaing.

According to sources, Pakistan is trying hard to renegotiate the deal with newer versions of the JF-17. In all likelihood, these new variants will be developed by the same combination of Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and Chengdu Aircraft Industries Corporation of China. However, there is little information so far on whether the renegotiated deal has been accepted by the military junta leadership.