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Capabilities of PAF Dassault MIRAGE-III/V.

Should Pakistan upgrade its Mirages to South African Cheetah standard if not Beyond?

  • Yes

    Votes: 180 58.8%
  • No

    Votes: 126 41.2%

  • Total voters
    306
That would be PLU, AzadP ... as in post-life upgrade since Pakistan is the last nation using it!

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;) Tay.


lol nicely put , well I agree it needs a PLU in that case
Surprising becasue upgrade with system/software that already work is not that difficult or should not be that hard

Radar - China
Software-Hardware : Turkey
Helmet Mount Targeting : Pakistan
Servicing : Pakistan

Airframe/Wings can be made with special order
 
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PAC did bought tooling from Belgium in the 1990s for Mirage Rebuilt Factory that used in the ROSE upgrade to repair airframe. If they want they have all the details to make new wings out better materials that are being used to make JF-17s.
 
Mirage-VEF from No.27 Tactical Attack Sqn 'Zarrar' during routine air-combat-training flights.

No.27 Sqn is specialist squadron in day/night surface attack and deep intediction role. Their aircraft are equipped with Forward Looking Infra-Red sensors, Night Vision Goggles (NVG) & H-2/4 Joint Stand Off (JSOW) weapon.

Front seat pilot in Mirage-IIIDP aircraft Serial# 70-304 is wearing moderised HGU-55 helmet with provision for employment of NVGs.

mirage_zarrars_no_27_sqn_06.jpg
 
Non of the spanish ones were airworthi and used for spares only plus a number crashed so no not all are av

7,8 15,27 and 25 sqn Ccs mirages will not be needed once mirages are replaced already Ccs has jf same for f7s css

If average is 14 air raft per sqn than 14x5 is total number

Not sure about Libyian how many reactivated
 
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Non of the spanish ones were airworthi and used for spares only plus a number crashed so no not all are av

7,8 15,27 and 25 sqn Ccs mirages will not be needed once mirages are replaced already Ccs has jf same for f7s css

If average is 14 air raft per sqn than 14x5 is total number

Not sure about Libyian how many reactivated

Libyan mostly used for spares but the main deal was 50 brand new Atar engines from Libya.
 
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Mirage is going to be retired, dont you think JF-17 should be configured for that?


Most of block III JF brings add tonal precision strike capability which surpasses mirages and bring it to block 52 level with Laser pod and bombs plus Additional stand off weapons

AESA also brings simultaneous air to air and air to ground target engagement capability

Mirages may carry more fuel but their 50 era technology engine being tuebojet and not turbofan are not very fuel efficient so range wise it may not be better than JF

Bottom line there is no comparison between JF and f7 / mirage
 
Mirage is expensive to operate and even after 50 years PAF still sources certain parts from Dassault

Last year Dassault engineers visited MRF and PAF had to pay a fortune for them

Beauty about JF17 is not only that we can build home made fighter , it also means in the longer term the cost will be low because if we need spare parts we just order it and build it ourselves

Need a new wing ? Just order one no need to be tight on flying hours trying to preserve the jet like we do with mirage and even F16

This is why JF17 will most certainly run beyond 150 units to even 200 or 300

PAF is seeing the real fruits now brilliant project
 

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