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Its not just price that makes aircraft comparable, its the power, speed, weapon load capability, combat radius, maneuverability and flexibility of design that make them fall in one category. Mr. Ma may be right if he has a vision of Block-III Thunder with increased thrust, stronger pay load and...

Thats the one line answer to Cold Start. Making assumptions based on speed, mobilization and strike power of fighting forces can yield better results on paper, but things are very complex in real world. If CSD is really a doctrine for war, then the opponents deserve equal worth too. Deployment...

Please don't speculate. This is just the website policy because of the sensitivity of these pics. Serials aren't the only thing erased in them, there are 5/6 others things too. Most of the background detail is either removed or cropped too. And as sir Fatman has said, there are no 'ghost'...

That means 18 aircraft received under the Peace Drive-I. These 14 aircraft have been recieved from Dec 2005 to Jul 2008. It was evaluated in 2007/2008 but the decision was made in favour of IL-78, which can refuel Mirage JF-17 and FC-20(in near future). The bk52s with CFTs solved the range and...

The air chief’s statement about the critical role assigned to IAF in CSD is spot on. The CSD is itself an extended form of the U.S army doctrine of warfare in non-contagious battle space. The U.S and collation forces have implemented this strategy of autonomous fighting elements operating in...

A simple question...Do we need to discuss this too? What is the outcome of this discussion.?..any chap commenting about the final selection...most probably criticizing the decision...what else?

Thunder's takeoff time is v.good but what you are referring is a specific example, with increased load pilot will be utilizing larger runway. In an war scenario, getting wheels up in minimum time in important, but at the same time following standard procedures is necessary too. Using a...

Presence of a strong internal jammer like AN/ALQ-187 jammer was felt during Anatolian Eagle exercises, our F-16s had to carry -131 at center line pod unlike Turkish/US/NATO F-16s. Its good that now in MLU we will have a self protection EW suite too.

Yes unfortunately:-( Good work BTW.

Exactly, my point...blame those who made these decisions, don't bring the whole institution responsible for such events. Any soldier is bound to obey the orders given to him, what you are failing to accept that SOLDIER never makes policy, he obeys it. The first part of this comment has nothing...

Please Enlighten me who makes the Foreign policy? You post its nothing more than words from a big mouth...bring some facts not these LoL, hahahha and fun exclamations. Thats the best you can say? What is you definition of army, 15-20 Generals ruling the country of 500,000 people in uniform...

I am sorry to but the ejection story and BLA later killing him reminded me of Behind the enemy lines. If there was any such report, 23 Sqn would have wiped the area...shooting down of a plane is not a simple matter, there was supposed to be a retaliation from other side too. As for the crash...

Well first of the problem is that people like you and the public consider these issues as just one Magic wand problem. Things are not so simple that you can change in any moment. You,Imran and others of your mindset blame army for the foreign policy and the attacks on them. If you consider...

Few years ago, PAF surpassed 90,000 accident free hours in a year...that was all time best. Its sad that the pendulum has taken the lower end now. May Allah bless the fallen soldier.Amen!

Well the purpose of parade is to show strength to adversaries and to give a message to those who are planning against us…don’t consider TTP/BLA as your only threat...there are various hidden/ un-accounted severe threats too. If you have taken the road to bashing your armed forces, I think it...

Such reports will keep on coming until India signs the deal..which has a maximum of 6 months time..thats the maximum time BAE has. However i doubt India will waste more time in this deal, its already a decade since its inception.

Yes its a temporary assignment till we get a reasonable strength is available to run a conversion course. 14/16 a/c would be minimum to start a conversion course. I think PAF would go for two operational non MLU sqns both with equal amount of EDA F-16s and 5 Sqn with mix of bk52 and MLU. Once...

Just like Belgian AF's MLUs, these bk52 have ECM/RWR sensors in the drogue chute box & under the intake. I think its CARAPACE ECM under the intake. A close up of same item on Belgian AF's F-16. http://www.f-16.net/gallery_item45617.html