PAF Aqusitions

Guys
Dont know the accuracy of this as its a Russian news source, but teh Pakistan Army has already taken delivery of 4 MI-17’s from Russia out of an order from 12. I personally dont see the SU-27 in PAF Colours, but the AN-70 maybe…..

Excerpt from report in English by Russian news agency Interfax-AVN web site

Kiev, 26 June: Pakistan considers Ukraine a promising partner for supplying military equipment. Zakir Jaffer, head of Ahmed Jaffer and Company Ltd., a company that specializes in supplying the Pakistani army with weapons, confirmed Pakistan’s commitment to expanding and exploring new options for cooperation with Ukraine.

“I believe that existing contacts are based on the two sides’ understanding of the need to expand cooperation via joint production,” he told Interfax-Ukraine…

He said there were plans to replace F-16 fighters of the US make by US or Russian aircraft, for instance, the Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter.

In addition, Pakistan is in need of transport helicopters for airlifting military contingents and is planning to sign a contract on the supplies of 17 aircraft in the near future, Jaffer said.

According to data available to Interfax-Ukraine, Pakistan has been among Ukraine’s major partners on the global arms market for the past few years. The volume of orders executed by Ukrainian experts for the Pakistani party totalled some 800m dollars from 1996 to 2000. Ukraine shipped 320 T-80UD tanks to Pakistan in the framework of a 650-million-dollar contract signed in 1996.

Source: Interfax-AVN military news agency web site, Moscow, in English 1247 gmt 26 Jun 02.
BBC Worldwide Monitoring/ (c) BBC 2002.