Spy Satellite Conundrum

[Windjammer]

I'm sure many of you browse through Google Earth for your own interests. Mine being military aviation , i tend to look out for air bases of India and Pakistan respectively. Although these images i have in my files are up to ten year old, none the less the situation remains same today. What intrigues me is that if you browse over IAF Stations, you will naturally see fighter jets and other aircraft parked around in abundance, but observe PAF airfields, and they look almost deserted, I posed this question to a PAF source who cleverly avoided giving an answer and laughingly asked whether i also noticed that IAF HAS are usually opened from both sides.
Anyways, what's the possible reason for such a contrast between the two sides.
@Oscar @Irfan Baloch @Tipu7 @HRK @DESERT FIGHTER @PARIKRAMA

IAF Stations. ( I will avoid naming them)

 

[Windjammer]

PAF Airbases.

 

[Farhan Bohra]

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IAF Stations. ( I will avoid naming them)

You named it.

 

[Hellfire]

@Windjammer real time pics you put up? because if not, then they are usually quite old.


@Joe Shearer NIce one. Was logging out. So came across this. Tagging you sir.

@Windjammer You sly fox ....2007 pics you are posting .... lol

Now go do a google for open source maps !!! What a tripe

 

[shah1398]

I posed this question to a PAF source who cleverly avoided giving an answer and laughingly asked whether i also noticed that IAF HAS are usually opened from both sides.

Sir I think the answer already lies inside the pictures I wish I cud give my piece of mind on what I see in the pics but wud humbly bow down (It might not be worth it though.)

 

[Viny]

The structures itself speaks, the postures taken and the prime objectives.

 

[Windjammer]

@Windjammer real time pics you put up? because if not, then they are usually quite old.
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Both set of pictures from same period.
Unless i was sitting in the Pentagon or the COC, i will post real time imagery.

@Windjammer real time pics you put up? because if not, then they are usually quite old.


@Joe Shearer NIce one. Was logging out. So came across this. Tagging you sir.

@Windjammer You sly fox ....2007 pics you are posting .... lol

Now go do a google for open source maps !!! What a tripe

DId i post one set from 2007 and the other from present. get a life dude.

 

[Hellfire]

DId i post one set from 2007 and the other from present. get a life dude.

Its OLD!!!! .. get a life dude lol

cheers. have fun.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Because Google Map images are real time, you can even see them taking off/landing sometimes. Sarcasm aside, the concern is valid, as it gives away the deployed squadron at any specific airfield.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Sir I think the answer already lies inside the pictures I wish I cud give my piece of mind on what I see in the pics but wud humbly bow down (It might not be worth it though.)

You said it.

@Windjammer

Windy, you've been the equivalent of our ranjeet long enough for us to appreciate someone who brings so much unforced laughter and humour into our lives. Do you ask this seriously, even though you can see for yourself where the taxi paths end up? Have you not, ever, bothered to ask yourself what those Y-shaped structures are? Do you not remember the opening moves of 1965' air war?

@hellfire

He's been on my ignore list because of his bumptiousness, but I have to admit his very high-class entertainment value.

 

[Windjammer]

Its OLD!!!! .. get a life dude lol

cheers. have fun.

So, do the IAF bases now have a blanket cover.
It's an inquisitive thread, not some stick matching contest.

You said it.

@Windjammer

Windy, you've been the equivalent of our ranjeet long enough for us to appreciate someone who brings so much unforced laughter and humour into our lives. Do you ask this seriously, even though you can see for yourself where the taxi paths end up? Have you not, ever, bothered to ask yourself what those Y-shaped structures are? Do you not remember the opening moves of 1965' air war?

@hellfire

He's been on my ignore list because of his bumptiousness, but I have to admit his very high-class entertainment value.

The so called professional strikes again. The Batman joker is dead, ever considered for the role....
Surely you haven't reached the age where you can't see there are ORPs and HAS present on both sets of airfields.
Do you seriously think, PAF keeps all it's bick'n motar under the hangars,

 

[hkdas]

PAF F-16 parked in open...

 

[Irfan Baloch]

I'm sure many of you browse through Google Earth for your own interests. Mine being military aviation , i tend to look out for air bases of India and Pakistan respectively. Although these images i have in my files are up to ten year old, none the less the situation remains same today. What intrigues me is that if you browse over IAF Stations, you will naturally see fighter jets and other aircraft parked around in abundance, but observe PAF airfields, and they look almost deserted, I posed this question to a PAF source who cleverly avoided giving an answer and laughingly asked whether i also noticed that IAF HAS are usually opened from both sides.
Anyways, what's the possible reason for such a contrast between the two sides.
@Oscar @Irfan Baloch @Tipu7 @HRK @DESERT FIGHTER @PARIKRAMA

IAF Stations. ( I will avoid naming them)

we have learnt from bitter experience that we are facing asymmetric warfare where a conventional emeny is happily using proxies to specifically target strategic targets that pose danger to its ambitions.

hence our assets are now being better protected. contrast that to India ,, apart from that sham Pathankot attack (where the jets were already moved before the stage drama) India has not faced any such direct threat to their airports,


I will also add to the fact that our airports also have little walls and other form of cover for the defenders / aircrew if in case the terrorists manage to penetrate the perimeter defence and threaten them and their aircraft directly.

although our Indian posters in PDF say that the attacks on Pakistani airbases have nothing to do with India but their national security adviser openly gloats over funding and supporting both BLA (attack on radar installation in Baluchistan) and TTP saying he will pay them ten times more than their request to bleed Pakistan.

unless India faces the similar threat , it sees no need for heightened state of security that Pakistan has to have

 

[Windjammer]

PAF F-16 parked in open...

Where do you jokers come from.........posting pictures of an International exercise....that too from Turkey.

 

[OrionHunter]

Windy, you being an aviation enthusiast, I thought you knew the answer?

In 2007 there were few or no covered blast pens in Indian airfields for fighters like in most Pak air bases. These covered blast pens are specially constructed E-shaped double bays which are generally either 150 feet (46 m) or 190 feet (58 m) wide and 80 feet (24 m) front-to-back, accommodating aircraft for safe-keeping against bomb blasts and splinters during enemy air-attacks. Here's what I mean - a pic from Pakistan's air base which I will not name....

Enlarged....

You can clearly see the blast pens.

Now all forward airbases in India have fortified covered blast pens for their aircraft.