Nigerian Air Force takes delivery for the first batch of Super Mushak

[Windjammer]

Nigerian Air Force has taken delivery for the first batch of PAC Super Mushak Trainer Aircraft from Pakistan.

 

[Mahmood-ur-Rehman]

congratulations

 

[Windjammer]

Armed Super Mashak for the Nigerian Air force for COIN and light attack equipped with Precision Guided Munitions and E/O Suite.

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

Nigerian Air Force has taken delivery for the first batch of PAC Super Mushak Trainer Aircraft from Pakistan.

Thanks.
Never really noticed the weird unloading procedures for the Il76 family.
Comparison for a Puma unloading:
Il76

C17

How to videos:

 

[Imran Khan]

its not first sir its second order

Nigeria receives first Super Mushshak

• 05 December, 2016
• SOURCE: FlightGlobal.com
• BY: Alan Warnes

The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra handed over the first four MFI-17 Super Mushshak trainers to the Nigerian air force (NAF) on 5 December.

The ceremony took place at Kaduna air base, 550 miles (890km) north of Lagos, where the NAF’s flying training wing is based.

Delivery of the first four aircraft comes just six weeks after PAC Kamra signed a deal with the NAF to supply 10 new Super Mushshaks. Eight are being loaned as an interim measure until the new aircraft are delivered.

“The contract includes operational training and technical support by the Pakistan air force,” PAC Kamra chairman AM Arshad Malik tells FlightGlobal. “Needless to say, we are very happy with this deal and hopefully it will help to open up markets elsewhere.”

All of the Super Mushshaks were airfreighted by an Ilyushin Il-76 to Kaduna on 1 December, and reassembled by a PAF technical team at the air base.

A further four examples will follow by the second quarter of 2017, and the plan is to replace them with the new examples in mid-2017.

Alan Warnes/Pakistan air force

The new aircraft will house a US-designed glass cockpit and an enhanced environmental control system, which has modernised the trainer. Assembly of these aircraft is already under way at the PAC Kamra production plant.

The 260hp (194kW) Super Mushshaks will be based at Kaduna, and are likely to serve the 301 flying training school, which has been flying the aged Dana Air Beetle since 1995.

The past six months have seen a renaissance in the primary trainer’s fortunes, with Qatar ordering eight in May and the Turkish government signing an MoU for 52 on 22 November, in addition to the four in operation with the PAF.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/nigeria-receives-first-super-mushshak-432103/

 

[Windjammer]

Thanks.
Never really noticed the weird unloading procedures for the Il76 family.
Comparison for a Puma unloading:
Il76

C17

How to videos:

Twenty years age difference between the two transporters, yet the older aircraft has mechanical load/off load mechanism, while C-17 is more of drive on drive off procedure....obviously the latter being much wider body is more flexible to operate.

 

[khanasifm]

Il78 /76 has a built in loading crane which picks up package /container assuming std 20ft upto and moves it from the Ac to the ground so goes back and then down

 

[khanasifm]

 

[Kambojaric]

Congrats. May they serve the Nigerian Air Force well!

 

[YeBeWarned]

Happy Training and hunting Boko Harami guys

 

[Safriz]

Happy Training and hunting Boko Harami guys

Boko "Harami" .....

 

[Windjammer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/886162600245026816

 

[khanasifm]

https://twitter.com/x/status/886162600245026816

How reliable is this source too many folks posting and speculations

 

[Sinnerman108]

https://twitter.com/x/status/886162600245026816

Unless they are hatching planes somewhere ..

It seems highly unlikely as many planes can be produced to server Myanmar and Nigeria at the same time.

 

[Windjammer]

How reliable is this source too many folks posting and speculations

Same source shared the OP with images.