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One of the reasons given in field in US Army for adopting a 5.56 mm cartridge instead of the standard 7.76 mm was the very same reason that Bigbang1983 alluded in his post ..... it takes 8 to 10 people to take care of a wounded soldier vs 3 for a dead one

RiP brave son of the soil. You did your duty when many others shied away from it!!! We as a nation are in debt to you and to to those who came before you and who are serving today! Thank you for serving the motherland with such courage and devotion. Pakistan Zindabad!!!!

It is the duty of the a country to respond to a distress call if the distress call emanates from a vessel insides its EEZ. In fact all ships are required to assist a vessel in distress in high seas as well.

If we think relations with China will not have its own consequences, then I am afraid we are living in a fools paradise as we have always been when we were the darling of the west.

Investment will only happen if there is a long term commitment on the part of MoD to encourage local production. The route is simple, license production from kits, deletion through local parts, and then upgrade and evolution to a better variant that can be labeled as ones own indigenous...

Empty weight of a Hind 24VM is about 8,050 kg. Crates amounting to 31,087 kg. means roughly 3 Helos sans weapons.

I don't foresee a fighter air arm for PN. PAF will continue to do that. Both forces are working towards integrating their C3I for seaward defense and lot of work has been done in this regards. AWACS input are now viewable by PN and some other assets are also being integrated.

Thought would share this with you all, the likely requirement of new sailors and officers when all ships join the fleet. Type Class Nos Compliment Total Light Frigate Zulfiqar Class 4 214 860 Active Corvette Milgem Ada 4 93 372 Under Const. Heavy Frigate Type 54 A/P...

The second one is Port Qasim, near Karachi. Gawadar is the third commercial port. Major Coal, clinker, Cement and Bulk Cargo is handled at Port Qasim More than 8 million tons per annum. Majority of LNG/LPG is handled by Port Qasim. Almost all NATO supplies went through Port Qasim at its peak. In...

If we want to maintain three main ports and one purpose built naval port than we need to have atleast eight minesweepers/mine hunters. We are short by three where we stand today. PQ is a dream for mining operation as it has a number of access channels to reach the port. It is relatively easy to...

Today saw a P3C Orion taking off from JIAP. I was boarding a flight for ISB at that time

No longer in the plains of Punjab, it would be a fast thrust opposite of Bahawalpur and another one is Southern Sindh to cutoff the port from the rest of the country before Quetta corps responds. They have fought two wars in the plains of Punjab and nothing came off it due to natural...

Thank God you are happy finally and you are off your "Buy More" dictate :-)

The original plan was for a 12 aircraft strength of Orions

My 2C worth .... I have been lucky enough to participate twice in such type of challenges. The audience who will be largely civilians, do not comprehend the immense physical fitness and sheer mental strength required to compete in such events nor this show, up to now, has been able to...

The fight between Azerbaijan and Armenia should be viewed in perspective. Armenia did not have an air force to contest air dominance of Azeri forces. UCAV's/MALE's etc. and similar stuff is useful when one has complete air dominance of the Battlefield.

right now the ship is going through initial inspection phase. The user (PN) has personnel are on board and the builder has not handed over the ship to the user. The user will work with builder team for QoS and fitting out checks. There will be mechanical, electrical, power plant and subsystems...

a mock up of Z-9 being used to test deck handling of helo on the flight deck and the hanger. This means that we will be going for the Z-9 for this platform as well.

More expensive for an Air force the size and budget of PAF to keep dedicated ground attack aircraft that are good only when you have complete air superiority over the battlefield. PAF in its war planning discounts complete air superiority on the battlefield as it would be hard to achieve vs a...

No buddy I did not contradict myself, I am in this post, outlying what needs to be done on our side and on the US side. The real issue is still how India will play out its cards if Pakistan fold under pressure. I still believe, it wont happen as containment of China is a bigger issue than...