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Yep Talons are there...though they were planned to move to another base for Safron Bandit.No 23 is still at smuggli ?? Along with no 28 ??
By silent u mean less flying or no flying at all?An interesting observation.....when the PG's were stationed in Quetta....I would notice them flying sorties over the city almost everyday.....since they have been replaced by the thunders...the skies have gone silent...
not that i have noticed...and believe me am out of my home by 10 in the morning and come back at 6 in the evening i havent noticed any flying in the past few daysYep Talons are there...though they were planned to move to another base for Safron Bandit.
By silent u mean less flying or no flying at all?
That Squadron (17) Shifted to Peshawar.not that i have noticed...and believe me am out of my home by 10 in the morning and come back at 6 in the evening i havent noticed any flying in the past few days
just another thing that i would like to add....since the PG's were the latest to be inducted in the F-7 series i thought they would be the last to be replaced by the thunders and they probably would be....but the point that i dont understand is what prompted the squadron change??? @Hodor
One F-7PG sqd has shifted to Peshawar.was quette not holding 2 f-7pg squadrons? is this the assumption that quetta will now have 3 squadrons? 2 F-7PG and 1 JFT?
size comparison is difficult, we can see that shape is very identical to those of the tanks carried by F-7Pg's on a regular basis. those 60's era tanks are 480 L not weighing more than 500KG when fully packed with fuel. JFT underbelly does not look a whole lot bigger than tanks carried on f-7. it might be bigger in size as JFT under carriage hard point could support upto 1100 KG of load. but it do not look bigger. and the science looks exactly same as that of F-7PG tanks. By the way F-7 fuel tanks are manufactured at Kamra.
sorry couldn't resist ...What's your beef? 60s tech? Because it's pointy or what?
I hope we get to see some pics of the mirage drop tanks try outs on JF17 soon too. Adds another dimension with those bomb drop tanks too if it can handle all that weight, certainly takes care of the extra hard points debate as a bomber - again- if it can handle the weight.
Hi and thank you for your earlier reply which I second.Unless there is a design change to have the squarish Grippen NG type fuel tanks---that is a different story---.
The last modp report showed 130 jf drop tanks for 1.x million dollars so a large inventory of f7 drop tanks can be re used saving millions may be hundreds of millions
I have a question... currently we have 1 jf17 sq at karachi, 1 in Peshawer, 2 in Kamra, 1 CSS in Sargodha... There is big gap between Karachi and Sargodha.... only 1 sq of f16 at Shahbaz base, so why PAF deploying new sq at Quette???? I think we need to cover eastern border first... may be better to put them on Rafiqui basse....