If correct that cited figure of four to five million dollars for any trainer is a bargain. I want to remind you that trainer's have expensive cockpits similar to those of the air crafts they are designed to train for and this adds a lot of cost. Even for a straight attack plane with a 23mm cannon that can carry 2000 Lbs. of ordnance it is a bargain.

 

Let us see how it holds up over time.

 

 

 

Bull.

 

Let's see the operating costs and whether the Bangladeshies can MAINTAIN the damn things. Otherwise this purchase makes no sense at all.

 

(Smacks head). Good catch. the PL-8 is the PRC licensed Python 3 air to air missile. 

 

I believe the JL-8 is this 

 

Whether that piece of junk is American influenced is debatable.