Looks like some kind of CBU….

Ahh the aviator glasses.The pilots (irrespective of their nationalities) dont seem to be fed up with wearing those do they..

If you were in the Nevada sun it would make sense to keep them on..

PAF F-16Bs air refuelling over Atlantic on way to Nellis.

Note that now PAF pilots seem to be proficient in Boom (KC-135) as well as Hose and Drogue refuelling (IL-76 tanker). Also note PAF will be participating in Green Flag after Red Flag, this could be why all fighters are two seaters.

So you will have a source for ‘authorities’ ‘apparantly’ deciding this? Or have you just made it up?

Dont you know just how “clever” this guy is? :diablo:

Thanks. Aren’t those four other P-3Cs the ones with the Hawkeye AWACS package?

No, all are MPAs.

As far as I am aware PN did not go through with P-3 AWACs offer. Dont blame them either as Erieye has good over water capability and the last thing a country like Pakistan needs is 3 different AWACs systems.

2 JF-17s and a PAF C-130 landed at Farnborough yesterday! 😀

There is little to IP rights for unaligned nations. The only thread of essence to the claim about some sort of IP rights is that they purchase engines directly from Russia therefore could suffer sanctions. But it looks like Russia is happy selling engines to the Chinese regardless of the current situation. Russia doesn’t seem to feel threatened by Chinese engineers offering their services abroad to support Russian-built Su-27’s, nor by China trying to indigenous develop their own Al-31 class engine. Nope, I think the Russians realize the craptastic quality of their competition and are feeling pretty good about their products & services in comparison.

Feeling pretty good hey?

Then why are MIG and Sukohi begging the Russian government to ban engine sales to China?

In your determination to mock China’s potential you seem to overlook the fact that they are gaining a larger and larger slice of the fighter/trainer market place.

This increase in share will not come at the expense of advanced western aircraft but at the expense of Russian planes.

So next time keep the “craptastic” remarks to yourself unless you really know what you are talking about.

Even if they don’t need a first day of war strike capability, you certainly don’t want to have to face the prospect of defending against a VLO aircraft, in a non-VLO aircraft.

True,but some countries do not perceive they may have to do this,or even if they do they have reasoned they simply will/cant pay for the F-35.