Vikraal, yes perhaps Chinese Avionics are not up to par with Americans, but surely they’re catching up rapidlly and imo in 5-7 years they will be good enough. Lets not forget the Avionics offered for JF-17 by Chinese met PAF standards hence they were chosen, the competition was from European firms mostly.

And frankly speaking I dont see PAF placing J-10 order within next 5 years.

😀 What Say you! 😮 😉

I guess for time being, only thing russian would be RD-93

Pakistan air force inducts first female pilots at grand parade RISALPUR, Pakistan, March 30 (AP) _ With ceremonial pomp and aerial acrobatics, Pakistan on Thursday welcomed the first four female pilots into its air force at a grand passing-out parade. Saba Khanm, Nadia Gul, Mariam Khalil and Saira Batool were among 36 aviation cadets who received their wings after 3 1/2 years of intensive training, breaking into an all-male bastion of Pakistan’s armed forces. Gen. Ahsan Saleem Hyat, vice chief of army staff, hailed the women officers as a tribute to the air force’s elite training academy in Risalpur. The four had “shown the spirit and courage to rise above the ordinary and break new ground for others to emulate.”“If Pakistan is to rise to the height that it deserves … both men and women of our beloved land must find equal space and opportunity,” he said. Carrying rifles and dressed in the same blue uniform as their male colleagues_ except for a kameez (tunic) flapping over their navy blue trousers_ they paraded before hundreds of family members and diplomats, and took the military oath. Two other women who dropped out of the same training course because of air sickness and slow progress now work in ground branches of the air force. The four women trained in MFI-17 Super Mushfhak and T-37 jets, and depending on their abilities and the needs of the air force could go on to fly fighter jets. About 5 percent of Pakistan’s air force officers are women, mostly serving in areas like engineering, medicine, air traffic control and administration.

http://dawn.com/2006/03/30/welcome.htm

🙂

A Good read about Asian UAV Industry, also some Pakistani Made UAVs in the article, a nice read.

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/03/24/Navigation/177/205557/Asian+UAV+industry+Grand+plans.html

Another good read on some more stuff we have been making in Pakistan:

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/mar2006-weekly/nos-26-03-2006/pol1.htm#6

and in more news we have

*Iraqi Army receives Talha APCs

The Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) recently finalised the distribution to the Iraqi Army of Pakistan’s Heavy Industry Taxila (HIT)-manufactured Talha tracked armoured personnel carriers …
23-Mar-2006
http://jdw.janes.com/public/jdw/index.shtml

–> Anyone got full access to the news?

The Parade was cancelled due to Earthquake.

India will want bluepruints of everything down to nuts and bolts, not everyone is comfortable with that. You’re basically killing you long-term sales.