The latest US submission to the UN register on transfers of conventional arms ( http://www.un-register.org/ReportingStatus/mRegisterDetail.aspx?Register_Id=6409&YearDate=2014 ) states that the USA transferred 5 P-3B Orions to Pakistan in 2014. I assume that these are P-3Bs gifted to Pakistan that are still in the USA for modernisation/rebuild to P-3C or another modern version. Anyway seen more on this?

Namibian H-425, Zambian Z-9

Namibian H-425 reportedly delivered in 2012

http://cnair.top81.cn/helo/H425b.jpg

Zambia is buying them too, with a USD105 m. loan from China acc to
THE STATUS OF ZAMBIAS DOMESTIC DEBT AND EXTERNAL DEBT, 2012

Equatorial Guinea armed Ka-29?

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/16927.html?thread=23071

Pilot killed in military training plane crash in Mauritania

Looks like it’s a SF-260

http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/7106.html

Indian SU-30K

Does anyone know what in the end happened with the 18 Su-30Ks which India swapped for new Su-30MKIs? Could it be some of these were delivered to Uganda last month?

See for Ugandan Su-30s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElRy2Spsiu4

New Tanzanian F-7(MG?)

Tanzania appears to be acquiring new F-7MG (or related version). 1st pictures can be found at:

http://eastafrican.userboard.net/t3p90-jeshi-la-wananchi-wa-tanzania-jwtz

No info yet on numbers.

JDAMs or the planned Turkish equivalent? And what king of target designator pod, Litening?

2 x F-16C BLock 40’s from 161 “Yarasa” (Bat) Filo equipped with 2 x AIM-120, 2 x AIM-9X and 2 x JDAM’s

From Turkish Air Force 2011 Calendar

Photo credits: Can Yilmaz.

M-2000 or (M)F-2000?

Note that the article says ’18 F-2000′. I guess they mean Mirage F-1s upgraded by the Astrac consortium to the MF-2000 version. Considering that Iraq used to have a considerable number of Mirage F-1s that would make a lot of sense.

A good chunk of the new Iraqi government bureaucracy is left over from he Saddam days and they have always had good working trade relations with European defence companies including Dassault, perhaps this is an attempt by the Iraqis to meet their requirements (the retiring ex-French Air Force Mirage 2000Cs) and please their transatlantic political benefactors (the United States). The main concern I guess for the Iraqis is not threatening their neighbours as Iraq historically done while at the same time maintaining a robust Air Force to defend itself from its external and internal enemies which is why all these aircraft are refurbished and not new…. also they’re most likely marked down and Iraq has a lot of other financial concerns involved in rebuilding than just defence.