High Mark 2016 Motorway Touchdown

[LadyFinger]

Being a good friend and an interesting poster on PDF.

They probably know something that i don't.

 

[Certain Somebody]

@Thunder Bolt Do you have any pictures of today's activity over Islamabad?

 

[barbarosa]

Why PAF does not try the landing of JF17 on Motor way?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

@Thunder Bolt Do you have any pictures of today's activity over Islamabad?

Actually today i haven't observed any activity if i will get pics from other sources i will share ......

 

[Ultima Thule]

Why PAF does not try the landing of JF17 on Motor way?

because it is air to air refeulable, i think mirages and F-7PG has a less range and a strike plane and primary mission of JF-17 air superiority along with F-16
i just my my opinion

 

[Windjammer]

Pictures from a FOB.

 

[barbarosa]

because it is air to air refeulable, i think mirages and F-7PG has a less range and a strike plane
i just my my opinion

Thank you.

 

[Windjammer]

Falcons over Islamabad.

Getting reports that a couple of F-16s shook Karachi this evening, flying low over Shara-e-Faisal with afterburners engaged.

 

[Ultima Thule]

Falcons over Islamabad.

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Getting reports that a couple of F-16s shook Karachi this evening, flying low over Shara-e-Faisal with afterburners engaged.

WOW i just say WOW

 

[The Eagle]

Falcons over Islamabad.

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Getting reports that a couple of F-16s shook Karachi this evening, flying low over Shara-e-Faisal with afterburners engaged.

Something like that, yup.

 

[Dazzler]

A Mirage pilot's HUD view after successful landing on the motorway.


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Good to see that our Mirages are equipped with 2000-5's HUD

 

[SQ8]

Good to see that our Mirages are equipped with 2000-5's HUD

The ROSE-II upgrade utilised the same components; further HuDs from Sagem were ordered for retrofit sans targeting system and avionics for other mirages as well.
http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/rose_upgrade

 

[SQ8]

Why PAF does not try the landing of JF17 on Motor way?

Operational qualifications of each aircraft take a while. The Mirages are the safest in terms of "knowledge" on the platform, followed by the f-7P. Moreover, the issue of Foreign object damage is also prevalent. The mirages can take a beating from a stone thrown here and there and so can the F-7P.. and if they are lost to it; bad but not as bad as losing a F-16 or JF-17.

At the end, the Motorway is nothing more than just another runway and practice landings at that length are undertaken quite regularly. Dispersal from airbases is the big focus and for now the PAF has enough FOBs and other dispersal sites that it can use instead of the Motor ways. Their focus is currently at providing alternate recovery spots.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Straight Outta High Mark 2016
wing cdr Yasir Muddassir

 

[vizier]

Motorways are fine to reduce vulnurability of location well known airbases by the enemy. There should be as many and as long as possible of such places in case some of them discovered and some parts of it destroyed if long enough other parts of the highway can be used.

Another option is to use assets like jf 17 from under mountain airbases. Better if it is further from brahmos range and well defended against other longer range cruise missiles.