PA Aviation took delivery of 2 Beechcraft Super King Air 350i aircrafts recently | June 2022 .

[Pakistan Ka Beta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540712664380440576

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540718792052879361

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540746852542418944

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540718418126577664

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540728321889034241

 

[Waterboy]

Fauj being the usual chad sigma figure.
PAF getting C130s and J10.
Army getting kingairs, VT4, and SH15s.
Navy building and inducting new ships.

Gotta give it to the boys for keeping things extremely efficient with massive budget shortage.

 

[Invictus01]

saw them flying today over rawalpindi
they are based off of chaklala airbase

 

[Trailer23]

Used to see plenty of these at Kandahar & Bagram Airfields back in the day.

Some belonged to the USAF, others were operated by Contractors like KBR & Fluor.

 

[SQ8]

Intel assets that would replace the one lost and expand the fleet by 1

 

[iLION12345_1]

Intel assets that would replace the one lost and expand the fleet by 1

But the tweet says they’re for the Air Force. The existing models are with the army.

 

[SD 10]

Fauj being the usual chad sigma figure.
PAF getting C130s and J10.
Army getting kingairs, VT4, and SH15s.
Navy building and inducting new ships.

Gotta give it to the boys for keeping things extremely efficient with massive budget shortage.

when you are getting 15% of the budget and yet here you are talking about budget shortage very nice!!!!

 

[arslank03]

when you are getting 15% of the budget and yet here you are talking about budget shortage very nice!!!!

10 billion is a pathetic number when we look at the size and capability of our force.

 

[Jango]

Intel assets that would replace the one lost and expand the fleet by 1

That's what I believe so as well.

The OP tweet is probably mistaken that it is for the air force.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

A downgrade in my opinion instead of getting proper craft we now buying small units due to budget cuts

NAVY was lucky to wrap up all the deals before economic slowdown started due to no confidence motion
Hopefully no purchase down the pipeline is impacted by what is happening in present

 

[SD 10]

10 billion is a pathetic number when we look at the size and capability of our force.

well tahts the point... in a bid to fight india.. you have a much larger force than what a country like pakistan`s size should be having.........
You cant afford it...it is plain simple!

 

[blain2]

But the tweet says they’re for the Air Force. The existing models are with the army.

I believe it has been misreported in the tweet. I believe these are for the army. Back in 2014-15 timeframe, there were active discussions going on with PAA to get these aircraft in to support the fight in FATA. A lot of the ISR work then was being done by C-130s which are much more expensive to operate than these smaller aircraft. Even if they don't show the ISR equipment, it is possible they may get upgraded.

when you are getting 15% of the budget and yet here you are talking about budget shortage very nice!!!!

Its not about the % of the budget, rather what we spend of the GDP on defense. We are at less than 3% currently.

Our budget is eaten up by debt servicing and interest payments and not upfront military expenditure.

 

[farooqbhai007]

I believe it has been misreported in the tweet. I believe these are for the army. Back in 2014-15 timeframe, there were active discussions going on with PAA to get these aircraft in to support the fight in FATA. A lot of the ISR work then was being done by C-130s which are much more expensive to operate than these smaller aircraft. Even if they don't show the ISR equipment, it is possible they may get upgraded.


Its not about the % of the budget, rather what we spend of the GDP on defense. We are at less than 3% currently.

Our budget is eaten up by debt servicing and interest payments and not upfront military expenditure.

nope its confirmed they are for PAF , both aircraft have been conducting training fligths to & from Nur khan airbase and not the PAA Qasim airbase.