The PAF is set to receive a batch of Egyptian Air Force Mirage-Vs

[Jinn Baba]

the situation is painful as we are going to make jf17 block 3 man a way more advance fighter jet still looking for scrap

Bhai just look at how many Mirage we still have. Even if full production of Block 3 starts today, it will still take YEARS for these Mirage to be replaced.

This is just a spares purchase to keep them in the air until they are finally replaced. Dont think of it as anything more.

 

[Imran Khan]

Imran consider the circumstances as well. Having such number with cheap cost, will definitely help us to not just to maintain the fleet but also, adding more punch. Economic & support constraints can cause more falls as well as losses hence, it is better to arrange spares/numbers to fulfill our need till we have new Bird to takeover the role. Thunder needs more time & so our small pockets.

tbh i am not happy at all with this news sir . nothing can satisfy me . hum log bhikari ban chuky hain

Bhai just look at how many Mirage we still have. Even if full production of Block 3 starts today, it will still take YEARS for these Mirage to be replaced.

This is just a spares purchase to keep them in the air until they are finally replaced. Dont think of it as anything more.

did we stopped production of block2 ? we can rise more sqns and then our own retired mirages can be used as parts

 

[ARMalik]

Fellows, spares for Mirages III and V have all but stopped. Pakistan has no choice but to make deals like these. Again, as some members including myself have mentioned several times here, Mirages are for a very different and dedicated role and they are a must. Although these Mirages are more than 50 years old machines, there is nothing in IAF inventory or PAFs that can match the acceleration/speed of these Mirages at 2.2 Mach, and Higher if the aircraft is descending from 30,000 ft. speeding. The jets go in for quick, deep strikes, and return. This is exactly what happened on 27 Feb.

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

Fellows, spares for Mirages III and V have all but stopped. Pakistan has no choice but to make deals like these. Again, as some members including myself have mentioned several times here, Mirages are for a very different and dedicated role and they are a must. Although these Mirages are more than 50 years old machines, there is nothing in IAF inventory or PAFs that can match the acceleration/speed of these Mirages at 2.2 Mach, and Higher if the aircraft is descending from 30,000 ft. speeding. The jets go in for quick, deep strikes, and return. This is exactly what happened on 27 Feb.

Doesn't IAF have Mirage 2000s that can match them?

 

[Cygnus Black]

Great deal! We shouldn't even waste our Forex reserves on these. Just exchange with 5-6 JF-17s.

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

some one joins here in 2011
makes over 20 posts a day
yet only has a total of 347
does that mean he is some kind of multi-ID feku?

What?

 

[Imran Khan]

Fellows, spares for Mirages III and V have all but stopped. Pakistan has no choice but to make deals like these. Again, as some members including myself have mentioned several times here, Mirages are for a very different and dedicated role and they are a must. Although these Mirages are more than 50 years old machines, there is nothing in IAF inventory or PAFs that can match the acceleration/speed of these Mirages at 2.2 Mach, and Higher if the aircraft is descending from 30,000 ft. speeding. The jets go in for quick, deep strikes, and return. This is exactly what happened on 27 Feb.

if speed is everything then better we bring back f-104 star fighters

 

[Riz]

mirage 2000s?

No bro.... Mirage - 1995 means mirage v only .

 

[ARMalik]

if speed is everything then better we bring back f-104 star fighters

Let's not compare Apples with Melons.

 

[Riz]

We will upgrade these mirage Vs to the equivalent to indian Rafales..

 

[loanranger]

No bro.... Mirage - 1995 means mirage v only .

chalo khair hai was excited for a sec kuch keh lo they served us well on 27 feb....

 

[War Thunder]

Mirage V - again?

Spare paaaarts
Tweeet parh lo koi pura...

We will upgrade these mirage Vs to the equivalent to indian Rafales..

They already are...

 

[Apocalypse]

if speed is everything then better we bring back f-104 star fighters

The Italians retired their Starfighters in 2004. We would've retired them sometime then, had it not been for the US sanctions, as a result of which we were forced to retire them in 1972. Had they been in service till much later, they would've shot down the Indian Foxbats that used to go trisonic over Islamabad.

 

[loanranger]

IAF Mirage 2000s were the only aircraft that gave us trouble on 27 in ka hal nikalna paray ga....

 

[Jinn Baba]

did we stopped production of block2 ? we can rise more sqns and then our own retired mirages can be used as parts

No one seems to know. But:

1) even if Block 2 production is in full swing, we will still be unable to replace all the Mirages for a few years. So would have needed these spares.

2) block 3 seems to be an entirely new aircraft. May be PAF only wants the new aircraft- for the same reasons that you want something new and not same old Mirage. The Mirage is still our primary attack aircraft, may be there are deficiencies in the Block 2 that make is undesirable for the Mirages to be replaced with it, hence why we are waiting for Block 3.