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Zarrar Squadron Mirages
By Najam Khan | November 25, 2014 | Mirage-III/V
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No.27 Sqn “Zarrar” is the youngest combat squadron of PAF made operational on April 19, 2007.

The squadron is equipped with Mirage-VEF and Mirage-IIIDP/Mirage-VDD (Dual seat) ROSE-III aircraft, capable to perform day-night offensive and counter offensive operations. The aircraft are equipped with Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) sensors, Navigation and Attack System (NAS) and Night Vision Goggles capability.

No.27 Sqn has performed in two edition of Exercise Shaheen (Shaheen-I (2011) and Shaheen-III (2014)) with Chinese Air Force and in Exercise Al-Saqoor-II (2011) with Royal Saudi Air Force.

No.27 Sqn Aircraft inventory:

No.27 Sqn aircraft inventory includes mostly Mirage-VEF aircraft procured by PAF in 1996, which later undergone ROSE-III upgrade with the help of Sagem in early 2000s.

Mirage-VEF 96-728 734 745 746 747 748 749 750 752 757 (and few more air frames)
Mirage-VDD 04-001 004
Mirage-IIIDP 70-304



Photos of No.27 Sqn Mirages undergoing routine training flights.


Do you think Mirages can fight good in a war?
 
In a war presumably against India.

You would expect the mirage pilot to carry out strike missions both cas and stand off weapons.

In a air combat role both long range cap and air supremacy over paf airspace I think the airframe and engine will be fatigued against better more modern Indian fighters like su30.MIRAGE2009.AND MIG29SMT AND K.
 
In a war presumably against India.

You would expect the mirage pilot to carry out strike missions both cas and stand off weapons.

In a air combat role both long range cap and air supremacy over paf airspace I think the airframe and engine will be fatigued against better more modern Indian fighters like su30.MIRAGE2009.AND MIG29SMT AND K.

oh ok..........
 
War is like a game of cards and you don't show your cards before time.

That's the problem with PAF, they don't show off. But personally, I'm not convinced.

Only if military experts were created on internet, you would be COA.

The only new capabilities of Mirage which we can see these days is CRASHING. Time to ground them, scrap them & replace them with J10B which PAF dropped. In my opinion PAF committed a blunder by not going for J10B, looks like PAF is having some over smart people which they need to get rid of.

Fortunately machines in Pakistan don't get impressed or lose heart and get fatigued against "more Modern" machines. but if this happens in india, then you better take care of your migs, jags, and some more


In a war presumably against India.

You would expect the mirage pilot to carry out strike missions both cas and stand off weapons.

In a air combat role both long range cap and air supremacy over paf airspace I think the airframe and engine will be fatigued against better more modern Indian fighters like su30.MIRAGE2009.AND MIG29SMT AND K.
 
No.19 Sqn F-16 ADF flanked by CCS Mirages.
PAF is in process of equipping Mirages with Southafrican origin air-refueling probe, which shall improve endurance of these aircraft.
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Bhai, how khwar are you? :P

Can we please have a Mirage ROSE ground strike formation (MAR-1 ARMs) with JF-17s (PL5 and SD10 with KG300 jammer) as escorts?

Takes me around 10 minutes to do so.. and I get to fly the thing in the process... "testing" out the kit. So no khwari at all.

and sure
 

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