Search results

According to http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers2/paper166.htm a book called "The Story of the PAF (1988-98) - A Battle Against The Odds," written by a joint team of retired PAF officials led by Air Marshal Rasheed Sheikh, states "Between late 1990 and 1993, it (the PAF) evaluated and...

Who says PAF has LANTIRN? If PAF had LANTIRN they would be fully capable of precision strikes at night. I've never seen anything about them using Chinese targeting pods either. PAF's F-16A use the ATLIS II which is a daytime only laser-designator pod, that's why they can't do precision strikes...

The specifications on PAC website only say HMS/D and highly agile 5th generation close-combat missiles with imaging infra-red seekers. Pakistan Aeronautical Complex.... According to some news reports, PAF were considering buying the IRIS-T missile from Germany in 2006. In 2007 and onwards...

Nice! Does it say much about PAF evaluating and considering the Panavia Tornado and Ukrainian Su-27 in the 90s? I'd like to know about which versions of Tornado the PAF was considering and how many.

Those "strips" are seen on cargo aircraft like C-130 Hercules, they are not for AESA radars, they are called "slime lights" and their purpose has nothing to do with any kind of radar. The part that has raised speculation on AESA radar is the slanted join between nose radome and fuselage, which...

For sure. Is the western powerplant confirmed yet? Last I read they were considering the Snecma M53-P2 back in 2008. I don't think they'll go for the western powerplant because Russia has been offering to supply upgraded versions of the RD-93, even with TVC.

I agree, IMO the PAF's upgraded Mirage III/V are fantastic jets if you take into account the alternatives available to the PAF at the time and I hope they stay on for as long as possible. But I'd like to think the PAF have gone past the F-16 era. The Mirage III served PAF well ever since its...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/world/asia/30pstan.html?_r=1 Pakistan Injects Precision Into Air War on Taliban By ERIC SCHMITT Published: July 29, 2009

Dear sir, by making Pakistan bankrupt itself to scare its neighbour, you would also turn the PAF into a paper tiger. By going the JF-17 and FC-20 route, the PAF has made itself far stronger in the long run. The opposition's numbers don't matter as long as the PAF has aeroplanes and missiles -...

Interesting discussion, thanks for giving us your valuable time and input Zraver. I just wanted to add a video of the Al-Zarrar autoloader (found on another forum, Pakistan Military Consortium :: www.PakDef.info, credit goes to "Rafi" for posting it): Auto-loader shown re-loading the gun at...

An important topic, these are the PAF's most potent strike fighters at the moment.

It seems to me that the FT-2000 system is designed to keep enemy EW and AWACS aircraft as far from friendly territory and bases of operations as possible, not simply to kill them. Sure they'll see missiles coming and they'll get out of range, isn't that the whole point? Their main advantage...

Last I read, he stated somewhere that "work was progressing well to increase number of hardpoints from 7 to 9". Has anybody saved the link to that news report? Something interesting about F-16's hardpoints is that when they added the "chin" hardpoints to the air intake for carrying targeting...

What problem? If the JF needed more hardpoints they would have added more hardpoints already. Seven hardpoints are enough, if they need more they will add more or use multiple launch rails like they are using for bombs. Even the Saab Gripen only had 7 hardpoints originally:

You are arguing that because a MiG-21 has a smaller radar signature than an Su-30, the MiG-21 is more suited to a certain purpose but you can't prove it. This is conjecture and therefore, you are speculating. The fact is it doesn't matter if its signature is smaller, it still has a huge...

Sir, the JF-17 is designed not to bring an enemy to the negotiating table with its spec. sheet, but by the amount of damage it can do when operated in numbers. It is designed to be cheap enough to replace PAF's large fleets of out-dated aircraft with a modern, capable platform that can be...

China's subs simply aren't good enough for the PN if they want something as advanced as U-214. Certainly, the Chinese subs would be considered if they were good enough and made available for export to PN. They are already taking help from China in warships, though.

I see it a different way. They are so wary of PAF's own stand-off strike capability that they have to position their most advanced aircraft right next to the border to have any hope of stopping PAF strikes. But this also plays into the hands of PAF - if PAF can deliver their stand-off weapons...

I don't relish internet arguments, I hate them but sometimes I have to say my piece. You said you don't speculate but you are indeed speculating, unless you have access to InAF strategies and tactics. I want to argue the fact that no matter how stealthy you claim the upgraded MiG-21 is, in the...

One of the things Pakistan doesn't have much of right now. You should know, the PAF have already evaluated the Su-27, the Ukrainians flew some down to Pakistan in the 90s. The PAF liked it but they wanted lots of upgrades. Right now they want the J-10 and JF-17 with Western radars and weapons...