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Russia begins delivery of advanced assault helicopters to Pakistan
By News Desk
Published: April 15, 2018
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The Pakistan Army Aviation Corps has begun receiving the Mi-35 assault helicopters it ordered from Russia back in 2015, according to a report in The Diplomat.

Citing an earlier article that appeared on Quwa Defense News and Analysis Group, the Tokyo-based online international news magazine reported that a video has appeared to have surface on the social media which shows a Mi-35 helicopter draped in the colours of the Pakistan Armed Forces flying somewhere in the country.

The Diplomat also stated that an import-export log appeared to record the delivery of helicopter-related equipment, including ammunition, from Russian state-owned defense exporter Rosoboronexport to the Pakistan Army.
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Last year, it was reported that Russia had handed over four Mi-35M helicopters to Pakistan Army Aviation Corps. However, the Japanese publication noted that the delivery of these choppers likely took place in Russia, and the actual transfer of gunships took place later.

“The contract was signed, we received all four cars [Mi-35Ms] and now we get new equipment,” Brigadier General Waheed Mumtaz of Pakistan’s Defense Export Promotion Organisation said in Moscow at the time.


Islamabad and Moscow concluded the $153 million helicopter deal during then-chief of army staff General (retd) Raheel Sharif’s visit to Russia in June 2016. A preliminary contract was signed at the Pakistan Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in August 2015.

The Mi-35M attack helicopter, the export version of the Mi-24 gunship, was developed by the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and has been produced in Russia since 2005. Next to serving in the Russian military, the aircraft has been exported to Azerbaijan, Brazil, Iraq, and Venezuela.

The company website of Russian Helicopters notes that the Mi-35 is particularly suited for mountainous terrain and can be deployed “round the clock” in adverse weather conditions. The website added that the helicopter offers “combat use of guided and unguided weapons in regular and challenging climate conditions” and is “operational for attack flights at altitudes of 10-25 m daytime and 50 m at night over land or water.”


The helicopter can be deployed for a host of different missions, including transporting up to eight paratroopers and carrying military supplies weighing up to 1,500 kg internally and 2,400 kg externally.

The Mi-35M is armed with a mounted twin-barrel GSh-23V 23 millimeter cannon and 80 and 120 millimeter rockets, as well as anti-tank guided missiles.

The Pakistan military has expressed an interested in procuring up to 20 new Mi-35M helicopters in years ahead. “Given the cost of building the necessary Mi-35M logistics and maintenance infrastructure, expanding the fleet beyond four aircraft would financially be a sound decision for the Pakistani military,” the author of the report in The Diplomatunderlined.



Proof of both MI-35M and J-10 are at this link below.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.MPRT.KD?locations=PK


Where is the proof in that link exactly? It just shows the SIPRI site quoting total spending not any details of a system. Will you point us out to the actual information as you have claimed?

This is why i was REQUESTING you to stop misguiding the members here.
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You quoted an article that had NOTHING to say about DELIVERY of the said systems and titled it as "PROOF OF Mi-35". That is what i was disagreeing with. I hope you will understand now that it was nothing personal.
 
Russia begins delivery of advanced assault helicopters to Pakistan
By News Desk
Published: April 15, 2018
325SHARES

The Pakistan Army Aviation Corps has begun receiving the Mi-35 assault helicopters it ordered from Russia back in 2015, according to a report in The Diplomat.

Citing an earlier article that appeared on Quwa Defense News and Analysis Group, the Tokyo-based online international news magazine reported that a video has appeared to have surface on the social media which shows a Mi-35 helicopter draped in the colours of the Pakistan Armed Forces flying somewhere in the country.

The Diplomat also stated that an import-export log appeared to record the delivery of helicopter-related equipment, including ammunition, from Russian state-owned defense exporter Rosoboronexport to the Pakistan Army.
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Last year, it was reported that Russia had handed over four Mi-35M helicopters to Pakistan Army Aviation Corps. However, the Japanese publication noted that the delivery of these choppers likely took place in Russia, and the actual transfer of gunships took place later.

“The contract was signed, we received all four cars [Mi-35Ms] and now we get new equipment,” Brigadier General Waheed Mumtaz of Pakistan’s Defense Export Promotion Organisation said in Moscow at the time.


Islamabad and Moscow concluded the $153 million helicopter deal during then-chief of army staff General (retd) Raheel Sharif’s visit to Russia in June 2016. A preliminary contract was signed at the Pakistan Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in August 2015.

The Mi-35M attack helicopter, the export version of the Mi-24 gunship, was developed by the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and has been produced in Russia since 2005. Next to serving in the Russian military, the aircraft has been exported to Azerbaijan, Brazil, Iraq, and Venezuela.

The company website of Russian Helicopters notes that the Mi-35 is particularly suited for mountainous terrain and can be deployed “round the clock” in adverse weather conditions. The website added that the helicopter offers “combat use of guided and unguided weapons in regular and challenging climate conditions” and is “operational for attack flights at altitudes of 10-25 m daytime and 50 m at night over land or water.”


The helicopter can be deployed for a host of different missions, including transporting up to eight paratroopers and carrying military supplies weighing up to 1,500 kg internally and 2,400 kg externally.

The Mi-35M is armed with a mounted twin-barrel GSh-23V 23 millimeter cannon and 80 and 120 millimeter rockets, as well as anti-tank guided missiles.

The Pakistan military has expressed an interested in procuring up to 20 new Mi-35M helicopters in years ahead. “Given the cost of building the necessary Mi-35M logistics and maintenance infrastructure, expanding the fleet beyond four aircraft would financially be a sound decision for the Pakistani military,” the author of the report in The Diplomatunderlined.








This is why i was REQUESTING you to stop misguiding the members here.
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You quoted an article that had NOTHING to say about DELIVERY of the said systems and titled it as "PROOF OF Mi-35". That is what i was disagreeing with. I hope you will understand now that it was nothing personal.


Hello please make me understand how have i misguided members? I gave proof of budget of payment and you are posting an article dated april 15th and helicopter delivery was made much early than that.
 
Hello please make me understand how have i misguided members? I gave proof of budget of payment and you are posting an article dated april 15th and helicopter delivery was made much early than that.
A document confirming 500 mil $ spent is a proof of just that, 500 million dollar spent! If you start claiming that this money was spent for that particular system it becomes speculation and guess (wild or educated). Using that document as "proof" of one particular system being bought was misguiding people. Anyway, i hope you will understand this someday and assure that it was nothing personal as you perceived.

As for the article, look at the table i shared. It mentions date of arrival as well.
 
A document confirming 500 mil $ spent is a proof of just that, 500 million dollar spent! If you start claiming that this money was spent for that particular system it becomes speculation and guess (wild or educated). Using that document as "proof" of one particular system being bought was misguiding people. Anyway, i hope you will understand this someday and assure that it was nothing personal as you perceived.

As for the article, look at the table i shared. It mentions date of arrival as well.

No one here is dump enough to take the a budget surge as for certain particular item i think we all are grown ups here but you have to understand that out flow of money with big amount is one of the methods used to assess purchases and the link i shared provides the very exact info. this link was not shabaz sharif laptop scheem or some thing but it provided info on out going money for weapons purchase. yes it is a speculation but a very precise one and which has proven to be true over time so hope that makes my argument clear to you. hope you understand how world works.

any ways lets leave this and continue on more important topic on hand because they are here and that's what matters.
 

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