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Only twin engine cobras can carry Hellfire missiles. Single engine cobras like Pak cobras cannot carry Helfire missiles. PakCobras can carry max upto 8 TOW missiles. However, due to weight limitations carrying capacity is reduced, and upto 4 are carried.

PIA posts loss of Rs38bn -DAWN - Top Stories; October 29, 2008 PIA posts loss of Rs38bn KARACHI, Oct 28: Pakistan International Airlines announced a big nine-month loss on Tuesday, blaming a spike in global fuel prices and the sinking value of the rupee. The flag carrier posted an...

Agreed to...... Araz & Black Stone!

This is a two rotor system. and the aircarft stealth may be compromised by noise levels it generate, as compared to single rotor system of contemporary helicopters like Appache, Tiger, Cobra. This shows the difference of approach of Russian and western block strategy of countering armour...

The basic requirement for a fighter pilot The Killer Instinct......always, all the time. :sniper:

Gun boresighting... My guess is that present aircarft guns are boresighted to engage targets at a range of 1000 yards. Talking about F-16, fitted with Gatling 6 barrel rotating gun on left side. The gun still require to be boresighted to converge pilot line of sight through gunsight...

I have seen one of the paintings of Hussaini, which depicts a photo reccon flight of a dual seater F-104 . The painting depicts a dual seater F-104 flying inverted over an Indian base during 65 or 71. The GIBS, is having snapshots of the base with a hand held camera. Simple solution to a...

Women as fighter pilots in PAF Women in Pakistan Airforce are serving in different ground branches for long. These branches include Education, Administartion, Accounts, Legal, Met Department, Engineering & Medical (from Army on deputation) etc. Performance in these branches of Airforce of...

Can we get the name of the pilot..

It is reported on Geo TV and Ajj TV at 2100 hours.... An F-7 has crashed near Sargodha, Pilot is Safe, as reported by News TV channels. I am trying to find a source on net but unable to authenticate it

Radar guided SAMs may be dodged by ECM, nomatter they are launched. Either such SAMs are guided by ground based radar or an onboard radar, effective ECM may blind the guidance radar. For IR SAMs, flares are the best defence, other defence options are reducing engine heat emmisions. Now...

Very right but only when first 4 options have failed!!!!!!!! :cheesy:

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I need to ask and discuss something:--- What is the best defense an aircraft have against a SAM. The options available with an aircraft may be one or a combination of following:-- 1. Chaff 2. Flares 3. ECM (jamming enemy radar, but it may only be good for radar controlled SAMs...

:tsk: idont think we have any such plateform which can fire Hellfire. May be F-16 is configured to fire it...:undecided:

Moving troops by helicopters is the concept of Air Cavalry. USA pioneered it during Veitnam war and championed it throughout the war. Conept is simple, move a body of troops, rapidly to troubled area, over long distance, accomplish the mission, and extricate troops. One of the ingridients of...

As said in another thread of AC-130s, this aircarft is best suited for COIN ops, a place like Bajur.

Well, if some body has played ' Call of Duty 4' ther you can fully comrehend the idea, how forceful and effective this aircarft is. Using Thermal Imaging suite, this iarcarft can easilly operate at night. This aircarft is best suited to operate in low anti aircarft enviroment,although it...

Army has Bell 206 helicopters for recce and scout. You see, UAVs and Mushaks are not the plateforms to carry out kind of scouting required. As you have already mentioned in your post, to hunt for armour columns, recce and scouting is done while remaining undeteced, as done by US army. Cobra is...

If it is for dual purpose, then go for MI-35 Hind. it can give a good firepower, and also deliver 8 fully equipped troops on the location.