Pakistan has begun producing avionics and other important equipment for the JF-17 Thunder at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) in Kamra.

Super-7, or the JF-17 Thunder, has been developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation, under a joint venture between China and Pakistan.

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The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) will acquire 150 JF-17s, of which, 50% will be produced in the country itself.

PAC chairman Air Marshal Farhat Hussain Khan said that four indigenously designed and developed avionics systems were also being produced.

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