TaimiKhan
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Dear,
That's where you are wrong ... the beauty of Defense industries of Pakistan is that they are mostly owned by Military and operated by men in uniform themselves, saving the havoc and deception of ambitious profits, unmet requirements and falsified results when a manufacturer and consumer are not on the same page. In Pakistan they are not only on the same page, they are the same page.
1. PAC Kamra.
PAC is owned and operated by PAF personnel. It is located INSIDE Kamra's Minhas Airbase premises. If anyone ever gets to visit PAC he will find 90% staff IN uniform and rank badges. Rest of the 10% staff are civilian employees either directly hired for PAC, on deputation from various NESCOM organizations or retired PAC personnel given contract jobs after retirement. (The percentages are my estimate of what i have seen, could not find any link to depict this percentage)
Air Marshal Farhat Hussain Khan — Chairman, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Kamra
Air Vice Marshal Aminullah Khan — Managing Director, Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (AMF) at PAC Kamra
Air Commodore Suhail Salim — Member Technical, Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (AMF) at PAC Kamra
Air Commodore Mujtaba Jamal — Member Commercial, Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (AMF) at PAC Kamra
etc etc ...
sources:
Pakistan Aeronautical Complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
.:: Pakistan Aeronautical Complex ::.
::: DEPO - Defence Export Promotion Organization :::
Wapedia - Wiki: Minhas Airbase
2. AWC Wah.
AWC was owned and operated by PAF personnel until recently, while now it comes partly under NESCOM umbrella because of its very close co-operation with other NESCOM organizations but still continue to be run by PAF personnel. It is a mix of serving and retired PAF personnel, Nescom engineers and technicians, and very few civilian employees and consultants. AWC departments not under PAF control come under AERO which are fully controlled by NESCOM.
Air Vice Marshal Zubair Iqbal Malik — DG Air Weapons Complex (AWC), Wah Cantonment
Sources:
Air Weapons Complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Advanced Engineering Research Organization
::: DEPO - Defence Export Promotion Organization :::
3. HIT Taxila. (Not PAF, But Pak-Army)
Heavy Industries Taxila is where Al-Khalid-MBT, Al-Zarrar-MBT, APCs and other armoured vehicles are produced. It is completely owned and operated by Pak-Army management. "It consists of six major production units and their support facilities, staffed by over 6500 highly skilled personnel. About 30% of the 6500 employees are uniformed military personnel."
Lt. General Ayyaz Salim Rana — Chairman Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT), Taxila.
Sources:
Heavy Industries Taxila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
::: DEPO - Defence Export Promotion Organization :::
:: ISPR :: Inter Services Public Relations - PAKISTAN
4. POF Wah. (Pak-Army)
Pakistan Ordenance Factories is the biggest ordanance manufacturing plant of Pak-Army (there are also some few smaller ones). It may be partly owned and operated by by PA (no firm source available), but what i do know is that entire top brass consists of serving PA officers and that has been the case since inception. It employs more percentage of civilians than in HIT (no source to cite facts) but a huge number of serving army personnel are also working in POF, which is why it resides in the center of Wah Cantonment. "POF is a sprawling complex of fourteen production units and six subsidiaries producing conventional arms and ammunition".
Lt. General Syed Sabahat Hussain — Chairman Pakistan Ordinance Factories (POF), Wah Cantonment.
Sources:
Pakistan Ordnance Factories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
::: DEPO - Defence Export Promotion Organization :::
:: ISPR :: Inter Services Public Relations - PAKISTAN
and many more ... Hope you understand.
My point being ...
A) "IAF is not a concerned with production of an aircraft in any way" TRUE
B) "neither is the PAF" FALSE
A) "even the USAF do not manufacture plane" TRUE
B) neither does PAF FALSE
"Can you tell me how do you manufacture plane at airbases?"
Every single aircraft in this world is manufactured next to an airbase/airstrip, so that after its assembly either it can fly away on its own or its transporter can fly away ferrying it in its belly. I have never heard of any major aircraft manufacturing plant lacking a runway. I may be wrong here since there is no lack of idiots making that mistake, so i rephrase it, no sane man will make a mistake of manufacturing aircraft with no airstrip next to it.
Now if your point was that PAC (you thinking it's civilian) has its own "civilian" runway. You are wrong. PAC is PAF's property and is served by PAF Base Minhas whose premises it resides in. Rest you can find using Google Maps as i cannot and will not paste Maps here.
Regards,
Sapper
Excellent effort, but i can assure you, after a few replies in response to your this post by you know whom, you would be like , as same happened to me just a few posts ago and happens nearly all the time too.