SIPRI Mention's three items in its report. 4 Nos. 76mm Super Rapid Fire Naval Guns from Italy for Milgem and the 4 Gas Turbine engines for Milgem. From Germany 4 sets of MTU diesel engines for Milgem. So definitely there is procurement going on for different major components for the Milgem program.
I agree with most of your points, however, mind you as a general practice nuclear weapons are never stored at launch site and are only transported once the threat levels have escalated to an extreme level and then too in a disassembled form without the arming codes. By then it wont matter what...
Every operational PAF base has similar hardened facilities and bunkers. That is the norm, so does IAF airbases.
As far as nuclear weapons handling.......well if I was the strategic head of SPD, and given the proximity of the enemy, I will ensure that all operational airbases can launch nuclear...
PA has sent people to do PhD's in civil engineering in west through FWO!!
I met a young Lt. Commander in the Navy who completed a Marine Logistics course in US some time back.
Most of the pics of F-22 frigates show lots of brown smoke coming out of the smoke stacks! This is not the norm for modern ships. Any comments on this?
combat radius of AH64D is 263 nm. Karachi is 174KM from the nearest Indian border. So figure it out yourself. a round trip will be of approx 348KM from the nearest Indian border. An Apache can not make that long a round trip on a combat load.
So now you can sleep easy at night!!!
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Ukraine has some serious internal issues that has seriously effected its defense projects. Therefore, engaging in a long term program, such as an AFV project, with them would be risky now specially with some thaw in Pak Russia relations.
Very right. This requires strong local engineering industry and that requires economies of scale for the private sector to invest in technology and manpower. Even India has given up on the state sponsored mfg setup and now looking towards the private sector to take up manufacturing in the...
Saw it couple of weeks back. Work on fueling booms and superstructure is going on. It berthed at West Wharf near Port Grand. From the looks of it, will take a month or two to go for sea trials.
You feel that we need to take on a helo to helo combat scenario? That is not done therefore we do not need to go head to head on that with our next door.... Furthermore, recent deployment of Helos in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria has shown some weak areas of Attack Helos that can be exploited...
Brit 25 pounder artillery
Brit 17 pounder anti tank gun
US Sherman Tanks (Various Marks)
US M-10 tank destroyers
US Long Tom 155 Arty Gun
US 105mm Arty Gun
US C-130 a/c PAF
US RB 57 droopy recon a/c PAF
US M-24 Chaffee Light Tanks
US M 7 Priest 105 mm SP
US Bird Dog Observation A/c Army Aviation...
Back in mid seventies US think tanks were startagizing of a logical alliance with India. It took a while due to the Russina invasion and subsequently the Al Qaeda circus but eventually, it did happen.
Around five years back, the same think tanks were stratagizing that there would be a logical...