PAF participates in "Red Flag" and "Green Flag"

[fatman17]

x_man - any 'grapevine' news abt red flag excercise regarding PAF?

 

[Patriot]

PAF F-16's Taking off at Nellis AFB

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[ice_man]

PAF F-16's Taking off at Nellis AFB

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check out the 4 raptors parked in the shade!

 

[blain2]

X-man's pictures of the Vipers against the sundown are breathtaking. Hi-res ones would be very welcome!

 

[air marshal]

 

[air marshal]

 

[Patriot]

Can you post high resolution pictures?I suggest members save all these photos and spread it on different image hosting sites.

 

[WAQAS119]

Are PAF vipers doing dog fights and other operations or just refuling refuling and just refuling???

 

[AVIAN]

Are PAF vipers doing dog fights and other operations or just refuling refuling and just refuling???

Mission planning often takes great amount of attention rather then having sharpning skills on combact alone. Air Refuelling is a major exercise which often ask for major Opearational Efficiency and ability to project power ahead of existing endurance. Unless you don't have key approch to rapid response time to deal with upcoming threat then it is of little help to expect heroics in Combact.

 

[razgriz19]

Are PAF vipers doing dog fights and other operations or just refuling refuling and just refuling???

PAF F-16s are assigned to do interdiction, but if enemy (red force) somehow got closer to paf fighters then yes there would be a dog fight taking place!

and refuelling takes place after every mission(need fuel to go back to base) so every fighter in the air have to go through this...

 

[x_man]

X-man's pictures of the Vipers against the sundown are breathtaking. Hi-res ones would be very welcome!

As soon I have high res, I will post them here, few more for the road.

 

[x_man]

 

[x_man]

 

[Chogy]

Beautiful pictures!

Guys, remember that refueling is a time to take a few deep breaths and snap some pics... unless you are on the boom! Getting pictures of the actual ACBT or air to ground is extremely difficult from the rear seat of an F-16B, or the rear seat of any fighter. Air to air pictures - consider you are under up to 9G, and you'd be extremely lucky to snap anything from the rear seat that would even be identifiable as another airplane. And the guys in the back seat aren't going to want to play cameraman while the action is hot and heavy, they'll want to be a part of the mission. Trust me on that.

If the PAF releases the HUD video, that is where we are going to see significant images. I'm betting too that the PAF has a media person along to record a huge number of images of things like briefing, launch, debriefing, etc, but the media guy probably won't be flying. Just a guess. We'll hopefully see much more at a later date.

 

[Kompromat]

We need some Results and Videos too.