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April 16, 2011 at 6:58 pm in reply to: Turkish Air Force – News & Discussion #2360462

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Those look like K-8s with the red smoke, PAF aerobatic team?

Those are very clearly F-5s from the Turkish aerobatics team; The Turkish Stars.

April 15, 2011 at 11:44 am in reply to: Pakistan Air Force III #2361010

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I think that PAF pilot exchange program with Turkey and to some extent China is well known.Like here..

Yes of course, so far in the fact that there is an exchange programme. But that’s about all the PAF have ever previously officially stated. However, for a PAF pilot to give futher details into the actual setup of the exchange programme, and details of the flying regime, would be unlikely without official PAF approval, not to mention sensitivities from the TuAF.

April 15, 2011 at 2:37 am in reply to: Pakistan Air Force III #2361264

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I dont know whether this was posted before..but very insightful interview..
Also check the thing about the US bug in the Turkish F 16!

Always need to take such things with a pinch of salt. There’s no sources given for the interview and no way to check. I think the PAF has never really released any official details of such exchange programmes before, so not sure how a PAF pilot can provide such details in an interview without official sanction or approval.

April 13, 2011 at 10:38 pm in reply to: PLAAF Thread 15 #2361673

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nice.

is it:

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or a test aircraft?

I would say it’s in China and probably PT4, the first to have the DSI, LERX and other changes, as it clearly has the pitot tube on the nose.

April 12, 2011 at 12:50 am in reply to: Turkish Air Force – News & Discussion #2362361

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Turkish exchange pilot flying PAF F-16A with No11 squadron?

April 6, 2011 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Air Action Over Libya (Merged) #2363898

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Mirage….. Bad points: 1. Its French…

😀 classic…

I still can’t figure out why the French are so scared of retractable IFR probes.

April 1, 2011 at 4:32 pm in reply to: Air Action Over Libya (Merged) #2365514

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Were they still in flyable condition?

Not sure, I thought the Mig-23s based in Benghazi weren’t flyable…before seeing one of them being shot down.

April 1, 2011 at 4:31 pm in reply to: Air Action Over Libya (Merged) #2365515

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So Bulgaria sent one of their aircraft carriers huh?

I think it may refer to surface vessels, rather than carriers specifically. I mean, I doubt Turkey sent 6 carriers or the UK 2! 🙂

April 1, 2011 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Air Action Over Libya (Merged) #2365524

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What’s happened to the few Mig-25s that were located at Sabha Airport?

March 30, 2011 at 11:54 am in reply to: Air Action Over Libya (Merged) #2366134

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Thanks for those details AlphaZulu, very interesting. Do you know if the Mirage III/V/50 had the same feature for the guns? And are there any decent photos of the Mirage III series with LDPs attached?

March 25, 2011 at 12:52 am in reply to: Pakistan Air Force III #2367302

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I hate when people put the JF17 against the MiG-29s & F-16. JF17 is only made to fill the space & do replace [gradually] the ageing fleets of Mirages & Sabres that we had till 60s

How can the JF-17 be designed to replace the F-86 Sabres that were retired over 30 years ago??!! 😮 The JF-17 was designed as a lightweight multirole aircraft in the same weight and performance category as the Gripen, so it can’t be compared to the MiG-29 or F-16 which are medium weight fighters.

March 23, 2011 at 2:54 pm in reply to: Pakistan Air Force III #2367681

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1. The A-5 has finally been retired.

On 17 March I believe?

3. Also the F-16 blk52 has been formally inducted as a squadron.

And also equipped with CFTs.

4. PAC website has been updated. It shows a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.01 for the JF-17 (check out the thrust and ferry range).

Link: http://www.pac.org.pk/jf17.html

Not much in the way of an update, they still have pics of PT-01, not to mention the English typos. So does that mean internal fuel capacity is 4,780lb? I think total external load has also increased to 8,000lb? (~4 tons?) But I still don’t see the addition of a starboard intake hard point for LDP/EWP?

March 22, 2011 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Russian Aviation News – Part the Fourth #2367925

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So why not simply order more SU-35s rather than a SU-27 with avionics that ‘come close’ to SU-35 standard?

March 20, 2011 at 6:48 pm in reply to: Air Action Over Libya (Merged) #2316326

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If the Arab League backs out, I say we just pound Ghadafi to bits, to hell with them. And we let them know we’re going to move on to the next one on the list after he’s history. And then the next one after that, and so on. I’m tired of such duplicity, hypocracy, and stupidity. We’re not perfect by any means, but judging on the merits of the situation at hand, it’s clear who cares for the Libyan people, and who doesn’t give a damn about them. Hell, they don’t even care all that much about their own people.

+1, completely agree. I find it ironic that the Arab ‘League’ requested military action by the West to protect innocent civilians against the hand of an evil dictator, yet failed to do the same for Iraq. And George W. Bush seems to have been partially vindicated by his assumption of popular uprisings in the Mid-East/Arab countries once Saddam was removed.

March 18, 2011 at 1:28 pm in reply to: Air Action Over Libya (Merged) #2318747

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I fear this will end up like the NFZ imposed on Iraq after GWI. It will allow the regime to remain in power, and use its ground forces to gradually destroy the rebellion, just like what Saddam did to the Shia in the South and to the Kurds in the north to some extent.
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