Pakistan Army Aviation Corps - Updated

[Army research]

A good friend said that and we are buying 4 so most probably we are going to get all 4 together

Every knows we're getting four, if your getting four doesn't mean all together , they come in batches sir je!!! Who's the good friend who said they're coming and in a few months or two three weeks ?

 

[Army research]

A good friend said that Suparco have reverse engineered the Death Star and we can expect to see it in a few weeks!!!

With tot and su 35 and SCAR sabres ofc

 

[Zarvan]

Every knows we're getting four, if your getting four doesn't mean all together , they come in batches sir je!!! Who's the good friend who said they're coming and in a few months or two three weeks ?

I don't know but it would be here in few weeks and also few months ago I posted picture of Pakistani pilots getting trained in Russia for MI-35

 

[fatman17]

Z19E makes maiden flight.
Advanced light attack helicopter

 

[fatman17]

Air Platforms

Export version of China's Z-19 attack helo makes maiden flight

Gabriel Dominguez, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

19 May 2017

The Z-19E, the export version of the China's Z-19 attack helicopter, made its maiden flight on 18 May. Source: Via news.cn

The export version of China's Harbin Aviation Industries (Group) Company (HAIG) Z-19 Black Whirlwind armed reconnaissance/attack helicopter has made its maiden flight.

Called the Z-19E, the new variant took to the skies on 18 May over the city of Harbin in China's northeastern province of Heilongjiang.

"The Z-19E carried out hovering manoeuvres, close ground-effect manoeuvring, and low passes above the airport to demonstrate its performance," reported the Xinhua news agency.

The media outlet quoted the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), HAIG's parent company, as saying that the model was developed to "meet the requirements of the international military trade market".

The narrow-body, tandem-seat helicopter is China's first export-oriented attack helicopter.

"It is able to be deployed for battlefield support and a variety of other missions in a complicated battlefield environment during day and night," Li Shengwei, deputy chief designer at HAIG, was quoted as saying.

The helicopter has a cabin layout that provides both aircrew with a good degree of visibility, while "its manoeuvrability and survival possibilities on the battlefield are great improvements", said Li.

With a maximum take-off weight of 4,250 kg, the Z-19E is a light armed helicopter providing advantages in cruising speed, climb rate, and usable ceiling, according to its developer.

The Z-19E is mainly intended to attack armoured vehicles and other ground targets, reported Xinhua.

 

[fatman17]

Air Platforms

Pakistan looks at COIN role for Super Mushshak aircraft

Alan Warnes, Kamra - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

19 May 2017

The state-owned Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), in Kamra, northern Pakistan, is looking at counter-insurgency (COIN) roles for its Super Mushshak training aircraft.

The move comes after the company successfully integrated a new glass cockpit into the aircraft and sold units of the basic trainer to Nigeria (10 units), Qatar (8), and Turkey (52) over the past year.

PAC is fitting weapons onto its Super Mushshaks. This aircraft is armed with two Chinese FT-10s PGBs in late April. (Alan Warnes)

The company is now adding intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities by fitting the aircraft with electro-optic/infrared (EO/IR) sensor turrets, with one Super Mushshak already equipped with an L3 Wescam MX-10.

PAC chairman Air Marshal Arshad Malik told Jane's, "We have had several customers enquiring about integrating an ISR system; so we are looking at options.

"While sitting in the cockpit's right seat, the turret operator would control the camera and watch the video feed on the glass screen. At the same time the imagery could be downlinked to the battle commander on the ground. It's a very simple system," the air marshal added.

The second initiative is to arm the Super Mushshak. After initial aerodynamic and structural analysis, one Chinese-built 25 kg FT-10 precision-guided bomb (PGB) was mounted under each wing of one of the aircraft on 29 April.

Complete integration of the weapons is expected to take another three to four months, which will also cover the design and manufacture of the pylons, quality checks, flight test, and eventually a test drop.

The PAC chairman pointed out that to ease the pilot's workload, "PAC is in the process of incorporating servos for the autopilot, too". The newly designed system would assist the pilot in controlling the aircraft should there be any aerodynamic instability after dropping one or both bombs.

An expert at the PAC Kamra's design, technology, and integration department admitted that it would take some time to verify and physically validate the findings of aerodynamic analysis.

 

[Rocky rock]

Air Platforms

Pakistan looks at COIN role for Super Mushshak aircraft

Alan Warnes, Kamra - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

19 May 2017

The state-owned Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), in Kamra, northern Pakistan, is looking at counter-insurgency (COIN) roles for its Super Mushshak training aircraft.

The move comes after the company successfully integrated a new glass cockpit into the aircraft and sold units of the basic trainer to Nigeria (10 units), Qatar (8), and Turkey (52) over the past year.

PAC is fitting weapons onto its Super Mushshaks. This aircraft is armed with two Chinese FT-10s PGBs in late April. (Alan Warnes)

The company is now adding intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities by fitting the aircraft with electro-optic/infrared (EO/IR) sensor turrets, with one Super Mushshak already equipped with an L3 Wescam MX-10.

PAC chairman Air Marshal Arshad Malik told Jane's, "We have had several customers enquiring about integrating an ISR system; so we are looking at options.

"While sitting in the cockpit's right seat, the turret operator would control the camera and watch the video feed on the glass screen. At the same time the imagery could be downlinked to the battle commander on the ground. It's a very simple system," the air marshal added.

The second initiative is to arm the Super Mushshak. After initial aerodynamic and structural analysis, one Chinese-built 25 kg FT-10 precision-guided bomb (PGB) was mounted under each wing of one of the aircraft on 29 April.

Complete integration of the weapons is expected to take another three to four months, which will also cover the design and manufacture of the pylons, quality checks, flight test, and eventually a test drop.

The PAC chairman pointed out that to ease the pilot's workload, "PAC is in the process of incorporating servos for the autopilot, too". The newly designed system would assist the pilot in controlling the aircraft should there be any aerodynamic instability after dropping one or both bombs.

An expert at the PAC Kamra's design, technology, and integration department admitted that it would take some time to verify and physically validate the findings of aerodynamic analysis.

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i would love to see the "Autopilot" Version.
secondly i have question here why we don't get any orders for K-8 while it's intermediate AC why just "Super Mushak" always?

 

[Zarvan]

i would love to see the "Autopilot" Version.
secondly i have question here why we don't get any orders for K-8 while it's intermediate AC why just "Super Mushak" always?

Pakistan and China have together sold K-8 to several countries go check wikki K-8 is being used by several countries

 

[Rocky rock]

Pakistan and China have together sold K-8 to several countries go check wikki K-8 is being used by several countries

Those were sold by China not by Pakistan. That's my point.

 

[Dazzler]

i would love to see the "Autopilot" Version.
secondly i have question here why we don't get any orders for K-8 while it's intermediate AC why just "Super Mushak" always?

More than 400 k-8s have been sold to 9 airforces while more orders are expected..

List of K-8 Overseas Customers
Country Number Comment
Pakistan 51
27 K-8Ps with glass cockpit were delivered by October 2010. Another 12 were delivered in September 2011.
Myanmar 12+60 60 K-8Ws more were ordered in late 2009. The delivery of first 12 started in mid-2010.
Sri Lanka 6 3 lost in 2002 during guerrilla attack, 3 delivered in July 2005
Zambia 15 8 K-8Ps were delivered in March 2012.
Namibia 4
Egypt 120 locally assembled K-8Es, 40 were ordered in mid-2005
Zimbabwe 12 1 crashed in September 2008, another crashed in April 2015
Ghana 4 2 K-8Ps delivered in March 2007, 2 more in March 2008
Sudan 22 First 6 K-8Ss delivered in 2007, 5 in November 2014.
Venezuela 18+9 18 K-8Ws were delivered by September 2010. One crashed in July 2010. Another in November 2012. 9 inducted in April 2016.
Bolivia 6 6 K-8VBs were ordered in January 2010, delivered in April 2011.
Tanzania 6? At least one was damaged during an aborted take-off on October 23, 2012.
Bangladesh 9 9 K-8Ws were ordered in late 2013. 5 delivered by April 2014.

 

[mingle]

K 8 would be good option .A dedicated Sq would be good .

 

[blinder]

See the article I just posted in the K-8 thread

 

[fatman17]

i would love to see the "Autopilot" Version.
secondly i have question here why we don't get any orders for K-8 while it's intermediate AC why just "Super Mushak" always?

China has selling rights to K8, while Pakistan gets 25% of the export earnings.

 

[ziaulislam]

China has selling rights to K8, while Pakistan gets 25% of the export earnings.

are we still building our share of parts for those orders?

 

[Inception-06]

are we still building our share of parts for those orders?

noT REALLY !