Ah the infamous saying 'A lone Texas Ranger can stop the riot.' One Riot, One Ranger.
Thank you for replies Sir and you know that I hold respect for all serving members here including you and I mean no malice when I write something, however after reading most of the posts on this I really gotta...
I am sorry that I had to read the bold part, alas, all I can say is "God Bless PA officers and the men that serve under them and follow their command."
Thank you for your very good reply to the TVC question. So, should we say that we are good on TVC for about a month and then another would ask the same sometime in May ? oh the TVC obsession, where is Dieno ? pulling his hair out somewhere ?
They are today and also after the ( when ) MLU a good force multipliers.
PS: Yes, they seem out dated, but then again they are not lead or capital ships.
That's one way of looking at it, flip side is that these individuals got the chance of a life time to show off their capabilities which in their own homeland ( place of birth ) would have been either rejected / dejected / or had deprived them off it.
There are quite a few examples from the past where Pak troops under India Officer or vise versa without any incident. These are professional solders not some rag tag teams, following orders is drilled into them from day one of joining service. Under the blue helmet they become one team...
One of the last time people threw monkey wrench for adding bribe for the then "Mr. 10%," it cost the PAF M2K with BVR and decade plus of just relying on 32 odd F-16 Block15 with no BVR.
Are bribe takers bad people ? sure just ask Adnan Khashoggi. "The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad...
If PN is dropping the AW platforms then more then likely talks have already taken place for Z-20 with positive response / feedback. In this scenario, IMHO the odd probably be high for PA to also acquire Z-20 to replace older UH-1s and or PUMA Helis, now depending upon numbers needed could there...
Which 12 ? ADF Variants from Jordan ? the 12 odd that USAF was using ? all of them were block 15/15+ if not mistaken. 32 odd original birds and 12+ USAF ones went through MLU to be brought to Block-52+ spec but are not 'Block-52+ as Block-52+ initially built,' so not the same airframe as Block-52+.
Raider21 posted about a "may be upgrade that he may be part of" last week, perhaphs he may shed some light about it that is if it doesn't break any security concerns.
Can't integrate other weapons ( beside the one already cleared by US for the PAF ) without the code from the US. If new weapons are to be added per the US permission then they be the US weapons cleared for PAF not non-US.
If you like at PAF on the F-16 Operations then one can see that the PAF...