Btw this is how PAF takes pictures at the commencement & end of exercises with a single example of each participating aircraft type & all the contingent members. Examples
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Going by the neighbor’s logic only a single Tiffy, Single Eagle & a single Viper took part in these exercises. Logic is a scarce commodity it seems in my neighborhood.

This year the PLAAF contingent is comprised of J-10s & J-7Es. No Flankers of any kind in this exercise this time.

Fedaykin can you give a description of the advert?
I personally know one of the officers (now retd) from our Mirage 2000 induction project. The issue was yes bribes from Dassault taken by some politicians (also implicated the incumbent prez) which then obviously led to increased prices (much more so than would be justified as bribe recovery). The French knew of our predicament (our plans for a 100+ F-16 fleet scuppered) & after the bribes they decided to squeeze a LOT more out of the deal than the price agreed upon. The bribe news once leaked became an easy excuse to get out of the deal which would have been economically untenable. Pakistan’s economy was just getting out of the deflation it went into under PMLN’s 1st Govt & was still on a shaky footing at the time of the deal.
I know this was OT but I love the Mirage 2K5 & would have loved to see it in our colours.
P.S I see a lot of posters here being dismissive of the JF-17. I wish the PAF would allow another comprehensive article on the type’s service to be published especially the DACT results from the last High Mark series. Would surprise many people. People may dismiss it but it fits our needs like a glove apart from range & we a re pretty darn happy with it.

Comedic value of the thread aside, to correct one misunderstanding, the wing operating JF-17s has been re-classified from the Tactical attack to the Multirole mission & both squadrons have achieved IOC with 26 sqdrn very close to FOC (within next 6-8 months if it goes to schedule).
The weapons which have been integrated as of present are
1) AAMs: Pl-5E, PL-9C, MAA-1A, MAA-1B, AIM-9L/M & SD-10 B.
2) AGMs/ASHMs: C-802/3, C-802AKG, Raad & MAR-1
3)Guided Bombs: PavewayII series, Chinese equivalent of JDAMS, H-2 & H-4 plus a chinese winged glide bomb
Apart from above add the normal dumb munitions & integration for a few other weapons including ‘special’ is currently underway.

The same as the F-35, Typhoon & Rafale. Google it.

Oh for crying out loud! Stop acting like 2 year olds ona sugar high & use your mental faculties people.
Pictures of the tail from every which angle were being posted on blogs, forums & websites on the same day as the raid.
Children in Abbotabad were selling pieces of the wreckage as souveniers to all & sundry. The thing was open to every T,D & H who wanted to lay their hands on it for a good couple of weeks before it was moved & given back after John Kerry made a trip to Pakistan.
First it was F-16 given to develop J-10 ******** & now this!
Anyway spew whatever bile you folks want, whatever makes you happy & rocks your boat.

Everything was fine till I read PPPs post and saw the ufo pics. Now I’ve got the XFiles tune on repeat in my head.

For an incling of an answer to the respected AM Norman Brown’s 2nd statement, I’d reccomend a reading of Allan Warne’s great article. The article mentions just for example co-development and production of avionic systems and more. Why give out spoilers? Please buy your copies and read the article.