AVIC’s Wing Loong I Operational With PAF

[Windjammer]

A review of commercial satellite imagery acquired by DigitalGlobe confirms that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is operating the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) Wing Loong I medium-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Imagery shows the platform parked near an aircraft shelter at the PAF M. M. Alam airbase in Mianwali, Punjab

 

[Windjammer]

Specifications (Wing Loong I)

• Crew: None (UAV)
• Length: 9.05 m (29 ft 8 in)
• Wingspan: 14 m (45 ft 11 in)
• Height: 2.77 m (9 ft 1 in)
• Gross weight: 1,100 kg (2,425 lb)
• Propellers: 3-bladed

Performance

• Maximum speed: 280 km/h (170 mph, 150 kn)
• Range: 4,000 km (2,500 mi, 2,200 nmi)
• Endurance: 20 hours
• Service ceiling: 8,000 m (26,000 ft)

Armament

• 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) of air-to-surface weapons
  • Bombs
    • FT-10
    • FT-10
    • FT-9
    • FT-7
    • GB7
    • GB4
  • Missiles
    • BRM1
    • AKD-10

Avionics

• 100 kilograms (220 lb) capacity for sensors

 

[StormBreaker]

A review of commercial satellite imagery acquired by DigitalGlobe confirms that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is operating the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) Wing Loong I medium-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Imagery shows the platform parked near an aircraft shelter at the PAF M. M. Alam airbase in Mianwali, Punjab

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Could be our own MALE which according to Alan is already in testing ?

@Windjammer

 

[Sabretooth]

I sure hope we start to hit the infiltrators across the western border and hit them hard.

 

[PakGuns]

why do you keep assuming things based on satellite imagery like our neighbors across the border...

 

[KhanBaba2]

Another thread without a source. The last one proved to be photoshopped.

 

[Cool_Soldier]

Why g

Another thread without a source. The last one proved to be photoshopped.

Why getting jealous
or may be getting panic

 

[StormBreaker]

Another thread without a source. The last one proved to be photoshopped.

Yea, and DigitalGlobe is the name of a restaurant i guess?
@The Eagle As early as possible, keep these trolls out of this unique development thread

 

[Cool_Soldier]

Of course I will panic as the Wing Loong visited Adampur airfield.

If IAF does not stop its conspiracy activities against PAF, then one day, it will visit many air fields in India.

 

[Tariq Habib Afridi]

Source
A Wing Loong crashed in Pakistan on 18 June 2016 raising theories the country may be evaluating the system.[38][42] A Pakistani defence ministry official told a reporter that an unnamed UAV crashed on an "experimental flight", further fueling evaluating theories.[43] Two years later in October 2018, it was announced that Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and Chengdu Aircraft Corporation would jointly produce 48 Wing Loong II UAVs for use in the Pakistan Air Force.[44][45

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

A review of commercial satellite imagery acquired by DigitalGlobe confirms that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is operating the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) Wing Loong I medium-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Imagery shows the platform parked near an aircraft shelter at the PAF M. M. Alam airbase in Mianwali, Punjab

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Not accurate.

That's an older sat photo from Bard U Drone Center, and at best it indicates that the PAF was testing the Wing Loong. Otherwise, we have our own MALE UAV program. And this particular drone may very well be that and not Wing Loong.

 

[scionofPakwattan]

Not accurate.

That's an older sat photo from Bard U Drone Center, and at best it indicates that the PAF was testing the Wing Loong. Otherwise, we have our own MALE UAV program. And this particular drone may very well be that and not Wing Loong.

bottom Left corner of pic has a printed date in 2015. This is a really old satellite photo

 

[Windjammer]

Another thread without a source. The last one proved to be photoshopped.

Still it has made you crawl on the thread.

Not accurate.

That's an older sat photo from Bard U Drone Center, and at best it indicates that the PAF was testing the Wing Loong. Otherwise, we have our own MALE UAV program. And this particular drone may very well be that and not Wing Loong.

PAF Has Operated AVIC’s Wing Loong I Since 2015
https://www.offiziere.ch/?p=32582

Of course I will panic as the Wing Loong visited Adampur airfield.

Just stick to awarding your humiliated pilots, that should be enough to keep gullible Indians amused.

 

[Sunny4pak]

I Suspected it is Wing Loong II (Here I tried to explain).

 

[omegalamba7XL9]

Specifications (Wing Loong I)

• Crew: None (UAV)
• Length: 9.05 m (29 ft 8 in)
• Wingspan: 14 m (45 ft 11 in)
• Height: 2.77 m (9 ft 1 in)
• Gross weight: 1,100 kg (2,425 lb)
• Propellers: 3-bladed

Performance

• Maximum speed: 280 km/h (170 mph, 150 kn)
• Range: 4,000 km (2,500 mi, 2,200 nmi)
• Endurance: 20 hours
• Service ceiling: 8,000 m (26,000 ft)

Armament

• 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) of air-to-surface weapons
  • Bombs
    • FT-10
    • FT-10
    • FT-9
    • FT-7
    • GB7
    • GB4
  • Missiles
    • BRM1
    • AKD-10

Avionics

• 100 kilograms (220 lb) capacity for sensors

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