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Looking at the LOMADS project, I'm starting to wonder if our decision-makers actually came up clutch all the way back in 2017 when South Africa reached out to collaborate on defence. We had heard of an in-house SAM project before (I was expecting something like FAAZ-SL), but a system with a...

There likely won't be a T-629. Rather, it seems that Turkiye will directly replace the LHTEC engines in the T129 ATAK with the TS1400.

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Seeing her rank/seniority, I wonder if she's one of those pilots who were trained on No.19's F-16s right out of FCU. IIRC, ACM Sohail Aman said he was trying to get younger pilots onto the F-16 via No.19 OCU. So, the guys/gals on No.19 can be as junior as Flying Officer. Overall, I felt the...

No leading political party in Pakistan, PTI included, is anti-American. Likewise, no general in Pakistan is anti-American. This aspect of Pakistan's leadership is the reason why it hasn't gotten closer to China. It's been a major liability for Beijing. However, Beijing is realizing that for it...

This angle gives off Leonardo AW249 vibes. I'm not saying the two are based on each other, but they're almost like cousins since both Leonardo and TAI used the design philosophy borne out of the A129.

This is actually a small cruise missile. It's great for a surgical strike ops (in the sense that you want to hit a very specific target using a small warhead), but it doesn't exactly fill the role of the Raptor-series, which leverage heavyweight warheads. That said, this would be an interesting...

This, IMO, is the pivotal difference between the US and China. The US would've used the current situation in Pakistan to engineer a strategically favourable situation, whatever that may look like. China, however, is basically standing aside and is doing its best to not stoke structural...

He hung around on SinoDefenceForum and some smaller model-building forums for a few years. I last saw him (online) around 2012-2013.

No, H Khan and Psychosaint are two different people. Psychosaint was legit ex Pak Army; he was a NCO who through hard work and study became a CO at the end of his career. He was a good guy.

tbh, we lack info and there's no transparency about how POF operates or makes its decisions. IMO, it just seems that Salman Ali does his thing while GHQ drafts its own plans. I think the PA will eventually sign onto a foreign rifle. They haven't gotten to that point yet because (1) it's...

I feel like the ISPR has been using this as a template for all their work since that point.

via TUSAS investment in Pakistan. IMO, if the PAF buys the MMU, then TUSAS will run the program independently of PAC and, instead, work directly through its subsidiary in Pakistan and the Pakistani private sector. There's no point in relying on Pakistan's state-owned enterprises.

South Asia's Islamic history starts with the Rashidun Caliphate touching Makran. So, if we stick to our Islamic identity, we don't start nor stop with the Mughals, but go way, way back. In fact, the earliest Islamic dominion to have ruled the regions that made up Pakistan (plus parts of North...

@SQ8 if accurate, it lines with what I said months ago about the U.S. steering Pakistan to be the cop in Afghanistan (and, possibly, Iran).

Jinnah-Class Frigate

It fulfills the same role, but it's a different type of solution. The Pantsir uses SAMs, while this leans on the twin-barrel AAGs. That said, I can see the end user pairing this with a SHORAD SAM, like Hisar-A or Levent.

...it's on a 10-year payment schedule too. In the worst-case scenario, it's low enough for the PAF to fund as long as Pakistan functionally exists. In the best-case scenario, there's a lot of vertical room to buy additional batches over the next 10-12 years. In fact, subsequent batches would...

IMO the right approach to this is to articulate an actual end-game or solution of how Pakistan needs to look like... What should be our political system? Our economic system? Our legal system? Build a thorough roadmap and present it to the elites so that the sincere ones among them (they exist)...

If the PN's plan was to get a submarine geared for long-range land strikes, then sure. However, that was not the primary goal of the Hangor-class SSP. Rather, the Hangor-class SSP's job is to deter or deny enemy sea activity through anti-ship and anti-sub warfare. Long-range strikes are a...