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Pakistan's Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircrafts

No offense, only provocation, so PAF prefers container wall instead of hardened walls/shelters for its AWACS?
Go look at PAF bases on Google Earth and the number of HASs. Most of its aircrafts operate out of HASs on a regular basis and not only during war time. It's silly to draw conclusions from a single picture. This particular picture is from AFB Faisal where the main tarmac is vulnerable to intrusion from the marshes on the other side of the runway. These containers have been placed on a taxiway as added security within the base perimeter to secure a potential access point to the tarmac. Containers provide better protection than walls and can be removed if needed. AWACs are not permanently based at Faisal. Most probably there for maintenance. Now all major bases have specialized hangers for AWACs surrounded by blast walls.
 
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ALL SAAB 2000 awacs
  • 10025 025 Saab 2000 AEW&C SE-025
Delivered to PAF 1n May-2010.
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  • 10040 040 Saab 2000 AEW&C SE-040
Delivered to PAF in July-2010
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  • 10045 045 Saab 2000 AEW&C SE-045
Deleivered to PAF in October-2011
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  • 10049 049 Saab 2000 AEW&C SE-049
Delivered to PAF in February-2010
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  • J-019 019 Saab 2000 VIP Transport PAF SE-019
Deliver in September 2008

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most probably
last i hear one was damaged beyond repair while the other 2 repaired and now operational
so we have three in operation, there were rumors of buying new equipment and newer aircraft to get the strength back to fourth but no evidence whether than happend or not
 
last i hear one was damaged beyond repair while the other 2 repaired and now operational
so we have three in operation, there were rumors of buying new equipment and newer aircraft to get the strength back to fourth but no evidence whether than happend or not

There were news of a Saab airframe delivery flight to Pakistan on civil aviation websites. I even posted links & screen caps(but then site got hacked & data was lost). One of the ex-serviceman on forum confirmed this, that the new airframe will get new radar equipment to get strength back to 4.

Link to my another post on this topic with relevant links: https://defence.pk/threads/2-damaged-saab-awac-repaired.454225/page-7#post-8786515
 
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The latest rumor (June 2015) suggested that the AWACS might be upgraded in the future with a fixed AESA radar similar to the one onboard KJ-500 replacing the Pesa Radar.

- Last Updated 1/20/17
 
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