Better than India’s Rafale: Pakistan starts production of advanced JF-17 Thunder Block III aircraft By Aircraft to be equipped with long-range superior radar system and advanced precise firing weapon PAC Kamra hands over 14 dual seater JF-17B Thunder Block-II fighter jets to PAF ISLAMABAD: Indian Air Force’s Rafale jets will no longer be as lethal as it hoped them to be as the Pakistan Air Force announced on Wednesday the serial production of the 4.5-generation aircraft of the most advanced variant of JF-17 Thunder Block III. The start of production was announced at a ceremony at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Kamra where the PAF was also handed over the 14 state-of-the-art indigenously developed dual seater JF-17B Thunder Block-II fighter jets.