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[Zarvan]

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We were expecting this to happen since He was ''specially'' called for this visit by a High End personality in Russia ..........

We should start packing crates for exporting Bernol to our neighbor as real soon they will need it in large quantities.

Let's hope for the best. He is not the only one in Russia few others are also there

 

[Arsalan]

@Arsalan Sir I told you before and @Horus @Windjammer @Sulman Badshah @Tipu7 This is one of most important visits ever

Thought this might interest you:

PAF Chief holds talks with Russian counterpart
July 23, 2016, 5:22 pm
ISLAMABAD: Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force visited Air Base and aviation industry set ups in Moscow, Russia and observed modern fighter jet and other important military hardware. During his visit to the Base CAS was briefed about the role and task of Russian Air Force and was shown various aircraft on its inventory. Air Chief appreciated professionalism and operational capabilities of Russian Air Force. He also emphasized upon the importance of mutual training and conduct of Operational Exercises between the two Air Forces to benefit from each other experiences. Later he met aviation industry hierarchy ofRussia for exploring multiple options and enhancing cooperation in technical fields. The Air Chief highlighted existing opportunities of cooperation between two aviation industries. He showed keen interest to enhance mutual technical cooperation, says a message received here Saturday.

Air Chief Marshal also called on Colonel General Victor Bondarev, Commander-in-Chief Russian Federation Aerospace Force. Both the dignitaries remained together for some time and discussed matters of professional and mutual interest. During the meeting both the commanders agreed for increasing cooperation between both air forces in particular and Aviation industry in general, and boosting aviation technology jointly. Both Air Chiefs showed interest in Bi-lateral operational exercises to benefit from each other experience.

The Air Chief highlighted the contributions of Pakistan Armed Forces and particularly PAF’s role in operation Zarb-e-Azb. Colonel General Victor Bondarev appreciated high standards of professionalism being set by Pakistan Air Force and highlighted the need of learning from each other’s experience.

Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Chief of the Air staff, Pakistan Air Force is on an official visit to Russian Federation on the special invitation of Russian Federation Aerospace Force.

http://nation.com.pk/national/23-Jul-2016/paf-chief-holds-talks-with-russian-counterpart

 

[Zarvan]

Thought this might interest you:

PAF Chief holds talks with Russian counterpart
July 23, 2016, 5:22 pm
ISLAMABAD: Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force visited Air Base and aviation industry set ups in Moscow, Russia and observed modern fighter jet and other important military hardware. During his visit to the Base CAS was briefed about the role and task of Russian Air Force and was shown various aircraft on its inventory. Air Chief appreciated professionalism and operational capabilities of Russian Air Force. He also emphasized upon the importance of mutual training and conduct of Operational Exercises between the two Air Forces to benefit from each other experiences. Later he met aviation industry hierarchy ofRussia for exploring multiple options and enhancing cooperation in technical fields. The Air Chief highlighted existing opportunities of cooperation between two aviation industries. He showed keen interest to enhance mutual technical cooperation, says a message received here Saturday.

Air Chief Marshal also called on Colonel General Victor Bondarev, Commander-in-Chief Russian Federation Aerospace Force. Both the dignitaries remained together for some time and discussed matters of professional and mutual interest. During the meeting both the commanders agreed for increasing cooperation between both air forces in particular and Aviation industry in general, and boosting aviation technology jointly. Both Air Chiefs showed interest in Bi-lateral operational exercises to benefit from each other experience.

The Air Chief highlighted the contributions of Pakistan Armed Forces and particularly PAF’s role in operation Zarb-e-Azb. Colonel General Victor Bondarev appreciated high standards of professionalism being set by Pakistan Air Force and highlighted the need of learning from each other’s experience.

Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Chief of the Air staff, Pakistan Air Force is on an official visit to Russian Federation on the special invitation of Russian Federation Aerospace Force.

http://nation.com.pk/national/23-Jul-2016/paf-chief-holds-talks-with-russian-counterpart

Nothing will be made official until deal is finalized by the way most probably he is not alone in Russia. Some other people are also there

 

[Arsalan]

Nothing will be made official until deal is finalized by the way most probably he is not alone in Russia. Some other people are also there

They are there to CONVINCE the Russians to reconsider there latest stance. I hope it is not too little too late!!
What is required is a nice government visit to Russia where we give diplomacy one more try. Sad that this is not what we are doing and criminal that it have all come to this.

 

[Windjammer]

An American free lance, Cynthia Dawn Ritchie, visits PAF academy Risalpur to chat with female pilots and staff.

Female ATC Officer

 

[fatman17]

@Arsalan Sir I told you before and @Horus @Windjammer @Sulman Badshah @Tipu7 This is one of most important visits ever

Just a hello hello visit

 

[Arsalan]

Just a hello hello visit

Quite true sir. And frankly, that in itself is quite significant as far as i am concerned. The head of our air force visiting and meeting top officials of a country that was not considered a friend not so long ago. Indicates the ship in geopolitical situation and is a good move/approach keeping in view the most probable future alliances. A visit do not needs Su35 deal confirmed to be a significant. There is a lot more the a countries strength than those fancy toys for our armed forces. I hope people will start to understand this.

 

[Quwa]

Even though it was a 'hello hello visit', ACM Aman didn't waste his time there - he went and basically drove the PAF's interests as best as he possibly could.

 

[fatman17]

Even if the Russians offer us a weapons system, the biggest issue with Russia is its snail paced supply chain. It is notoriously poor.

 

[Quwa]

Even if the Russians offer us a weapons system, the biggest issue with Russia is its snail paced supply chain. It is notoriously poor.

Depends on the product. For the Su-35, UAC has slotted export aircraft blocks to be produced in parallel with VVS fighters.

 

[fatman17]

20 Jul 2016, 17:51

FARNBOROUGH—Although Lockheed Martin is facing a gap in F-16 production starting next year, top officials say the company is keeping the line warm in anticipation of new international orders of the lightweight fighter before too long.
After delivering more than 4,500 F-16s to 28 customers in almost 140 different configurations, Lockheed is facing a possible shutdown of the Fort Worth production line after deliveries to Iraq are completed in 2017. But Orlando Carvalho, Lockheed’s executive vice president for aeronautics, is confident the F-16 production gap will be temporary.
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Lockheed hopes the next batch of F-16 orders will come from Bahrain, which is interested in upgrading its existing fleet of legacy F-16s and potentially buying a new batch of F-16Vs. The deal has recently been stalled amid negotiations for the U.S.’s new aid package to Israel, but Lockheed officials hope to finalize the contract soon. Colombia is also looking to buy F-16s, Carvalho said.

Meanwhile, Pakistan was considering buying eight F-16C/D Block 52 fighters, to be delivered in 2019, but the nearly $700 million deal fell apart over financing issues and opposition from Congress. The Pakistani government was required to provide a Letter of Acceptance for purchase of the jets by the end of May, but the document was never issued. Lockheed is no longer working on the Pakistan deal, Carvalho said.

Despite the Pakistan loss, Lockheed is confident international orders for the F-16 will continue to flow in, CEO Marillyn Hewson said in a recent interview. “We do have interest in the F-16 from Bahrain, Indonesia, Colombia, India and others, so we’re trying to sell the aircraft,” Hewson said. “Our job is just to get the next tranche sold so we can get that line back up after it goes cold. We have gone to low production levels in the past, and we’re very confident that we can bring it back.”

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The future of the F-16 line arguably lies with the F-16V upgrade, which takes lessons learned from fifth-generation aircraft like Lockheed’s F-35 and F-22 and rolls them back into the fourth-generation F-16. The heart and soul of the F-16V is Northrop Grumman’s APG-83 scalable, agile-beam active AESA radar, which allows the pilot to collect significantly more data than the legacy mechanically-scanned array radar, Howard said.

The new radar improves detection range, allows for up to 20 simultaneous target tracks, and includes a high-resolution synthetic aperture capability that enables all-environment precision strike. It also includes advanced electronic protections, and allows the pilot to combine the air-to-air and air-to-surface modes into a single display.

The F-16V also adds a center pedestal display upgrade, integrating a 6-in.-by-8-in., high-resolution, full-color screen in the center of the cockpit so the pilot can take advantage of the vast amounts of data coming in from the radar. In addition, the upgrade includes a new mission computer, which provides two times the memory and 10 times the computing space of the legacy mission computer.

The new configuration will also include an auto ground-collision avoidance system, a joint helmet-mounted cuing system, the latest weapons and a Lockheed Martin sniper pod with an advanced electro-optical camera, Link 16 for better communications with other aircraft, and conformal fuel tanks to extend the jet’s range.

“All of that is designed to take the information and the technology that we’ve learned out of fielding F-35s and F-22s and roll that information back into the F-16 through the avionics infrastructure, because today’s modern warfare ... in many ways it’s about information into the cockpit,” Howard said. “That’s what we’ve learned through F-22 and F-35 is how do you get the maximum amount of data into the cockpit so the pilot can then be thinking tactically and can then be making tactical

 

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[fatman17]

Military Capabilities

Turkey finalising deal for Pakistan's Super Mushshak

Jon Grevatt, Bangkok - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

26 July 2016

Turkey is in the final stages of signing a procurement deal for the Super Mushshak basic trainer, built by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC). Source: PAC

Pakistan is in the final stages of securing a deal to export its MFI-17 Super Mushshak military training aircraft to Turkey, the Pakistan Ministry of Defence Production (MoDP) has announced.

In a statement issued on 22 July, the MoDP said the pending contract to export the aircraft, which is produced by state-owned Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), will be one of several defence industry collaboration projects between the two countries.

The MoDP said, "Both [Pakistan and Turkey] are going to finalise [a] deal for [the] Super Mushshak. This deal is in [its] last stages of finalisation and is going to be signed very soon."

It added, "Turkey is going to buy quite [a] big number of Super Mushshak [aircraft] from Pakistan. This deal will strengthen ties between two brotherly countries and will result in huge [amount of] foreign exchange for Pakistan."

The Super Mushshak is a PAC licence-built version of the Saab MFI-17 Supporter aircraft. In addition to the Pakistan military, the aircraft has previously been acquired by air forces including Iran, Iraq, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The aircraft is also on order with Nigeria.

IHS Jane's has previously reported that the PAC was one of several companies bidding for a programme to supply Turkey with up to 52 basic trainer aircraft, with the Turkish Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) issuing a request for proposals (RfP) in October 2013.

Details about any potential industry collaboration on the programme have not been released, although the MoDP indicated that some workshare is included, which is likely to be undertaken between PAC and Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).

In addition to the expected Super Mushshak sale, the MoDP said that in August state-owned naval shipbuilder Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works (KSEW) will hand over to the Pakistan Navy (PN) a fleet tanker that was built in collaboration with Turkish technology and systems engineering house Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret (STM).

 

[Hadiqa Shani]

thanks for the info

 

[Signalian]

Curious why isnt PAF inclined on making a new aircraft after JF-17, a medium and stealthy aircraft.