Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department made of the capability of the Pakistani Air Force’s Chinese-made J10C fighter plane in the context of the incident between a Pakistani Air Force J10C and Indian Air Force Rafale jets on 7 May 2025.

Defence Intelligence and the wider UK national security machinery continually monitors and assess international developments in military technology, including Fighter Aircraft, and notably in this case the exported variants, of military technology, that are sold to countries other than where they are designed and built. The recent media articles concerning alleged aerial exchanges between Pakistani and Indian fighter jets are concerning and we recognise China’s ongoing development and proliferation of its military technology.