Yes it was a big leap but they werent just fresh academy graduates but all were well trained fighter pilots with each one of them having 1000s of hours under their belt.
F-16 wasnt their first fighter and when those guys went for training they already had their air-air and air-ground...
Sir I don’t think it is.
Mastan sahib you just want 60-75 J 11's and 200 J 10's alongwith the F 16's but how will you take and train your pilot from Academy level and directly to these very heavy weight modern fighters ? Where and which will be the intermediate fighter that will provide...
The below pics have been resized and cropped so they are a bit more manageable...I assure you that what you see in the pics is 100 pc and arent Photo Shopped as last time some members accused me of PS in the Life in Squadron thread....anyway enjoy...
Coming this from a country where majority of aircrafts are vintage Russians and even Russians have dumped them ages ago.
Your enthusiasm is in contradiction to the hundred of dead IAF pilots who hit the ground while still with the aircraft.
Your Mig-21s were inducted before our F-6s that...
Even if PAF has 400 fighters and IAF 1400, their chief will still very uncomfortable. Indians always try to brainwash masses and international community that its not Pak that they are worried about but China. But the thing is that when was the last time that IAF made hue and cry when Chinese...
Murphy law # 20
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to definitely go wrong. Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
I always wondered that why they call that buttugly LCA 4.5 generation............
......Because it took 4.5 human generations to make that plane fly from the drawing board to a point where it is now :cheesy::P
...that plane will already be obselete by the time it enters the service ( if it...
I dont know why Indians keep discussing it ??? Even if their was no partition in 1947and we had led the nature to take it course, sooner or later we would have gone apart anyway....
No Pakistani shall have a slightest of doubt that we would have been better off together....
Pakistanis are...
Well many countries tried it in the past but it was Sweden who perfected it.
However, It´s a big difference between Pakistan motorway operations and the Swedish "Road-base90-system". In Sweden that meant that practically every fighter had its own runway and it was protected by a company of...
While recovering from a night mission in F-7 from Kamra, he collided with the mountain range ( kala chittah) that is south of base.
Possible reason : Disorientation
Very sad indeed...may Allah bless his soul.
Shehbazi good to see you back..:tup:
Aircraft can go vertical (depending upon its thrust and speed) in any manner..it can either go vertical with or without the rolls...it all depends upon the situation at that time.
What you see on 23 march and other similar occasions, the vertical...