CNS Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi visited Naval installations, Combat Units at Sea & Units at Karachi

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

Pakistan needs a dedicated ASW squadron 12-16 x Z18 helicopters

We rely too much on pooling together units from various areas

We need to standardise the rotary Wing

Adding in UAV would be good for long endurance sea operations

Our warships are single hanger

We need rotary UAV to operate from all of our warships

I prefer we work with China or Turkey to co-develop and co-produce a common 10-ton helicopter platform.

Basically, use the same engines, transmission and dynamic components to build a heavy attack helicopter, a transport helicopter, an ASW/AShW helicopter, and a heavy search-and-rescue helicopter.