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https://syed-imran-shah.blogspot.com/2018/08/indian-air-force-against-portugal-and.html Indian Air Force Against Portugal and Pakistan In December 1961, Indian Armed Forces launched operations against the Portugese enclaves of Goa, Daman, Diu etc. Indian Air Force provided support to ground...

As someone has already pointed out, the best would be to increase the length of runway in those Northern Areas. But for the time being, both APU (Auxialliary Power Unit) and RAT (Ram Air Turbine) should be fitted to existing fleet of ATR-42s. Several turboprops have APU like Bombardier Dash-8...

The ATR-42 was basically unfit for this route. It does not have an Auxilliary Power Unit (APU). APU can be used to supply power when the engine-driven generators fail. Also its not sure whether this aircraft had Ram Air Turbine (RAT). RAT also serves to provide power (electric and/or hydraulic)...

Take another look at the Myanmar Rohingya insurgency and recent Indian operation inside Myanmar, a brief but to the point post, Syed Imran Shah: Great Game of the South Asia

Air Forces have a large stock of arms and ammunition but unfortunately when an air force gets defeated or its aircraft defect or are lost or its runways are put out of usage, then the whole ammo dumps of the air force become suddenly useless. It has happened many times and I don't need to again...

Coming back to the topic of the thread, guys what do you think, why should Pakistan not use AMRAAM as Surface-to-Air missile as PAF has already selected it as air-to-air BVR missile? Its ground-based SAM version is SL-AMRAAM. if despite the on-off relationship of Pakistan-US, we get our 500+...

I forgot to add that Iraqi AF also lost ahead of the Iraqi Army. The same is true for Serbian AF which lost ahead of the Serb Army. Another case is of Libyan AF. When Air Force loses a war, the maximum you can do is to start a guerrilla warfare if your country is mountainous (Afghanistan) or has...

In the Gulf war, the ground offensive was launched after the air war had been won by the Allies. Air Force and Navy win or lose earlier than Army. Army's fate in conventional battles usually depends on the outcome of air and naval battles. In the eastern theater of 1971, PAF and PN lost first...

Yes the Serb agents were reporting the take-off and landing activities from far-away airbases like in Italy from where the F-117s were operating.

The outcome of a conflict shall obviously depend on who is well-prepared, well-equipped and well-trained. Now our neighbour has gone into space with its spy satellites. These satellites can potentially locate radars and air defence units through optical means, ELINT and space-based radars...

The difficulty is that its hard to hide the radars of SAM batteries. ELINT aircraft and drones are on the constant watch to locate these radars through their radio and radar emissions. One way to get around this problem is to integrate these SAM sites with AWACS or AEW. AEW shall replace the...

The problem with ground-based air defence is that how a SAM radar or any other radar going to distinguish between a jet-powered drone and a fighter (manned) or even an unmanned full-sized fighter jet? In the 1982 Bekaa valley conflict, Syrian SAM batteries wasted their missiles on the Israeli...

Amazingly a crash took place on 15th August 2011 too at the same location of Bhakkar. It seems that a pilot flying around Bhakkar on 15th August 2013 should be careful. PAF plane crashes near Bhakkar Updated at: 1340 PST, Monday, August 15, 2011 PAF plane crashes near Bhakkar BHAKKAR: A...

column states that in 1994, Jamal became Air Chief Marshal. Jamal A Khan was Air Chief from 1985 to 1988. It was Air Chief Marshal Abbas Khattak in 1994. Also he refers to Indian NEC aircraft which I think is LCA instead.

If the place where the army leadership or corps commanders meet is so easy to bomb/destroy, then I wonder what would happen during the war. Hopefully such high level meetings take place in underground and bomb-proof bunkers and it would not be easy to destroy it except with precision-guided...

Continuing on the last post of the thread about IR missile capability with respect to altitude gap....... Importance of Line-of-Sight Range for Air-to-Air Missiles As discussed earlier in the thread, whenever short-range IR missiles are discussed, mostly horizontal ranges with head-on and...

Thats the point. A huge nose is not at all required with AESA or even Phased Array Antennae with electronic scanning of the radar beam. Lets go a little backwards in 1970s when it was necessary to house a radar with its antenna in the nose of a fighter. The nose radome being transparent to radar...

A low frontal RCS is important but how can it be achieved with a big radar antenna in the nose radome which is transparent to radar waves? While special techniques have been adopted for stealth fighters, others still lack a low frontal RCS. Sometimes it is shown that AESA radars antennae are...

The exhaust nozzle of F-100 or F-110 is variable-area depending on the thrust and flight regime. I do not think that a man-sized object can sit there when the engine is not using afterburner. It is amazing that even after 5 years on F-16, you are still not clear about radar theory but there is...

The first thing that a radar can see into the exhaust is an area of the turbine equal to the opening of nozzle at that time. 50% of the turbine can't give more reflections or RCS than a flat plate of the same radius. If the exhaust of jet engine is more important on radar then why the designers...