Pakistan F-16 Discussions 2

[IceCold]

This lost to F-22. Ohh damn. What a beautiful bird this is. Haven't seen the pic before. Looks like a space ship. Imagine what would have an enemy pilot think seeing an alien ship coming his way.

 

[Kompromat]

Enjoy

 

[Windjammer]

Now this is interesting, according to a news report in the latest edition of AFM,
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $42.31 million Foreign Military Sales contract on July 29 through the US Air Force for ten additional Enhanced Modernisation Programme kits for as-yet undelivered PAF F-16A/B Block 15 aircraft. The order follows on from a previous $325.485 million deal for 35 F-16A/B MLU kits that was awarded to LM on May 21 2010.
Prior to this, a deal has been signed on June 29 2009, with TAI to upgrade 41 aircraft. The first three (two F-16As and one F-16B) are now being worked on in Ankara.

 

[SBD-3]

Now this is interesting, according to a news report in the latest edition of AFM,
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $42.31 million Foreign Military Sales contract on July 29 through the US Air Force for ten additional Enhanced Modernisation Programme kits for as-yet undelivered PAF F-16A/B Block 15 aircraft. The order follows on from a previous $325.485 million deal for 35 F-16A/B MLU kits that was awarded to LM on May 21 2010.
Prior to this, a deal has been signed on June 29 2009, with TAI to upgrade 41 aircraft. The first three (two F-16As and one F-16B) are now being worked on in Ankara.

This is an old news yaar, TAI engneers are now in PAC as per latest to upgrade the rest in Pakistan. This order may have been for those birds which were initially kept for spares, there may have been a decision to upgrade these to Block 40 standard as well

 

[Windjammer]

This is an old news yaar, TAI engneers are now in PAC as per latest to upgrade the rest in Pakistan. This order may have been for those birds which were initially kept for spares, there may have been a decision to upgrade these to Block 40 standard as well

My dear, the TAI related may be an old news but as the report quotes, "As-yet undelivered", it may be pointing towards the embargoed aircraft operated by US Navy.

 

[araz]

It appears to be from the latest AFM and hte script clearly states "as yet undelivered". We always thought this was for the Bl `15 OCU units which PAF received. I dont know whetehr we will see these ACs being delivered under the current climate so lets wait and watch.
Araz

 

[fatman17]

NO. like the blk 52 order which was 'reduced' from 36 to 18, the MLU order was also 'reduced' from then 45 to 35 kits due to the 'earhquake'. these 10 kits are for the 44 (1 attrition since) aircraft. US Navy blk-15's may never be delivered.

 

[razgriz19]

^^those airframes are not even air worthy any more, if PAF do get them some how, they would only be good for spares and nothing else

 

[fatman17]

^^those airframes are not even air worthy any more, if PAF do get them some how, they would only be good for spares and nothing else

that is in-correct. the fact that PAF insisted on getting the original 28 embargoed a/c was the low airframe hours of the same.

 

[VCheng]

Much more important than airframes and engines these days are the software/electronic/armament upgrades, in determining the role of a particular plane type in a modern air force.

 

[Jango]

Enjoy

Now, that's beautiful

 

[abaseen99]

 

[zhang2011]

Improved radar. The new radar is able to track 6-8 targets at the same time, and engage 4 of the 6-8 tracked simultaneously. When used against large surface target such as a destroyer, the maximum range of the radar was in excess of 350 km. The range against aerial targets was not disclosed, but it would be definitely much shorter, as in all radars. The Chinese official report claims that the radar is better than the 147x/KLJ-X radar family, but stop short of identifying the exact type.

 

[MastanKhan]

This lost to F-22. Ohh damn. What a beautiful bird this is. Haven't seen the pic before. Looks like a space ship. Imagine Icecoled,

The thing is what would have an enemy pilot think seeing an alien ship coming his way.

Icecold,

The reality would be that the enemy pilot will never see this plane in the air---.

 

[SBD-3]

Icecold,

The reality would be that the enemy pilot will never see this plane in the air---.

I think the Boeing itself was more to blame than LMCO as this baby rolled out earlier than YF-22, Made a 1 hour median test flight, and then suddenly Boeing went quiet and let LMCO rock the show....Pretty strange for me at least.