Nomad40
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If PAF gets 5 recoverable than that's an achievement. the sole purpose of an aircraft is to fly, If the plane needs to be transported than that is a big problem. I believe the Mirages can make the trip in one leg.Friend, no one knows the state in which these EAF birds are in; most like in mid to poor. Mostly likely to be recobbled up and salvaged where needed; others will cannabilised for parts. conservatively out of the 30+; let us say 16 will work out.
Another factor is that of the Egyptian C-130. Most logical sense would be that our IL-76 would make the trips and bring them in but shipping them in will be the most cost effective solution.
People dont Understand how complex it is to integrate, train and arm new systems, besides that Mirage ROSE 3 is the most advanced strike mirage.
Rc-400 probably scrapped, radars cannot survive that long without care, and even if we did get the radars the bulk of our weapon systems are unique and will need hours of coding and upgrades to com channels. The bulk of our offensive weapons are unique to Pakistan only and that needs to be understood.
If any thing a few aircraft might be salvaged probably using our engines I dont think the Horus will have a working engine I would not trust the Egyptians with maintenance of a retired air-craft stored in a desert in +50 -3 conditions.
Hi,No, because they aren’t any better than 70’s aircraft and the additional logistics and training required to integrate them would offset any “scrap” value.
The mirages we know inside out - when they land any PAF mirage pilot can strap in and take them to war tomorrow. A Pakistani Mirage technician can change the engine or radar set on it - and an engineer can easily add a hypersonic cruise missile onto it knowing exactly where to run the wiring from and where to draw power and how much from.
Most Parts for the mirages can be taken from a EL to a Blue Flash to a Horus and bought in bulk for discount.
This was true in 1980 for blue flash 6, EL or DD or any of those we bought in the years before this. All the while this commonality reduces costs across the both horizontal and vertical PAF operations; while reducing ancillary losses due to commissions,corruption and mismanagement of funds.
They cannot do that with a JH-7 if they were bought in the 90’s and then parts, training, maintenance will require all new processes that will add to the PAF’s costs.
Ask our neighbor what happens to their budget when it gets cut around 10 different aircraft types with their added commissions and mismanagement.
Please delete this,
Thank's
sincerely Mirage battle commander.