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Is this a good time to say good bye to old fleet (F-7, Mirage III and A5/Q5)?
PAF have approx 100 Mirage III, 100 old F-7 and 30 A5. We are already going to ground them within next 3 years.
I think PAF should getrid with these 230 old generation jets ASAP......n it would be far batter, if they sell them to fill pockets for new and modren aircrafts and avonics.
Its not a bad time to sell Mirage III, A5, F7 to potential countries like BD, Srilanka, Myanmar , Iran or Sudan along with old generation avoinics like R550 Magic, AIM-9 and other old avoinics in package.
The process of selling them will take 3 to 4 years and in that time we will be able to get 18 new and old upgraded F-16, 100 JF-17 and hopefully few J-10B. Beside that we would already have 50 + F-7PG and 80+ Mirage ROSE jets in fleet.
The deal with multiple countries for these 230 aircrafts along avoinics package (R550 Magic, AIM-9 , PL-2, PL-5, PL-7, PL-8, PL-9, Sidwinder) can fill PAF pockets more then 1 billion.
1 billion is not enough but its good to make add in new procurements.
In their replacment we can get more J-10B (approx 100) and new western avonics for JF-17 like IRIS-T, Mectron MAA-1 Piranha (Brazil), MBDA Meteor (long range), MBDA MICA (Short range).
These avonics are batter then any avonics in PAF. We are already getting 500+ AMRAAM.
There is a question in my mind, What would PAF do with these old horses after few years....would they put them as memorandom, or parts would be sold to Peshawar scrap market as they did before.
Y not get some money by selling them to other nations and add more money on new and modren aircrafts and avonics!!!!
PAF have approx 100 Mirage III, 100 old F-7 and 30 A5. We are already going to ground them within next 3 years.
I think PAF should getrid with these 230 old generation jets ASAP......n it would be far batter, if they sell them to fill pockets for new and modren aircrafts and avonics.
Its not a bad time to sell Mirage III, A5, F7 to potential countries like BD, Srilanka, Myanmar , Iran or Sudan along with old generation avoinics like R550 Magic, AIM-9 and other old avoinics in package.
The process of selling them will take 3 to 4 years and in that time we will be able to get 18 new and old upgraded F-16, 100 JF-17 and hopefully few J-10B. Beside that we would already have 50 + F-7PG and 80+ Mirage ROSE jets in fleet.
The deal with multiple countries for these 230 aircrafts along avoinics package (R550 Magic, AIM-9 , PL-2, PL-5, PL-7, PL-8, PL-9, Sidwinder) can fill PAF pockets more then 1 billion.
1 billion is not enough but its good to make add in new procurements.
In their replacment we can get more J-10B (approx 100) and new western avonics for JF-17 like IRIS-T, Mectron MAA-1 Piranha (Brazil), MBDA Meteor (long range), MBDA MICA (Short range).
These avonics are batter then any avonics in PAF. We are already getting 500+ AMRAAM.
There is a question in my mind, What would PAF do with these old horses after few years....would they put them as memorandom, or parts would be sold to Peshawar scrap market as they did before.
Y not get some money by selling them to other nations and add more money on new and modren aircrafts and avonics!!!!
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