Pakistan receives US surveillance aircraft

[sivadreams]

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Pakistan receives US surveillance aircraft
AFP | Feb 21, 2012, 06.36PM IST

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani navy took delivery Tuesday of two state-of-the-art, US-made surveillance aircraft nine months after Islamist militants destroyed two similar planes, officials said.

Pakistan said the P3C aircraft, modified with the latest avionics, are designed to improve surveillance in the North Arabian sea, one of the world's most important shipping routes deeply troubled by Somali piracy.

"The two aircraft have been delivered to the Pakistan navy. These aircraft have been provided under the foreign military funding programme," a spokesman for the US embassy in Islamabad, told AFP.

Relations between Pakistan and the United States were severely damaged last year by a covert American raid that killed Osama bin Laden and air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and the alliance remains tense.

The navy said the aircraft would help "maintain requisite vigil in our vital area of interest in the North Arabian Sea", which it said was "home to intense maritime activity both legal and illegal and thus warrants continuous guard".

Pakistan is to receive six P3C aircraft from the United States in three batches. The first two, received in 2010, were destroyed during a 17-hour siege of a key naval base in Karachi last May blamed on the Taliban.

The attack killed 10 personnel and deeply embarrassed the military, just three weeks after bin Laden was killed in the garrison town of Abbottabad.

[Alchemy]

India has problems with these pirates so does Pakistan, China and rest of the world.... These Somali pirates seem to threaten the whole worlds navy if i may ....

They seem to form enough excuse for countries to setup naval bases and stock up defense equipment

[PakShaheen79]

India has problems with these pirates so does Pakistan, China and rest of the world.... These Somali pirates seem to threaten the whole worlds navy if i may ....

They seem to form enough excuse for countries to setup naval bases and stock up defense equipment

and What does exactly you are implying here?

[hembo]

[Super Falcon]

cannot say them state of the art they are second best state of the art is indian P 8 posedian

[Penguin]

India has problems with these pirates so does Pakistan, China and rest of the world.... These Somali pirates seem to threaten the whole worlds navy if i may ....

They seem to form enough excuse for countries to setup naval bases and stock up defense equipment

Its the main reason the Netherlands still has a navy .... ;-)

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Its really odd that Indians are most ones applauding the P3 Orions lol great going ...

Well , P3 Orions may not be Posiden but its still sufficient to deliver few excocet missiles against ships and take out submarines

We needed these planes to recover from the terrorist attacks

USA/PAK relations on other hand are still rocky very rocky after baluchistan resolution in US congress

[ziaulislam]

they were received under foreign militery sales, i.e we paid for them..
regarding P-8 the upgraded p-3 are still the good enough to do their job but in comparison with p-8 has low endurance

[killerx]

good for pak navy need to shif for usa equip to china cheap and un intrupted supply

[Stealth]

[Nishan_101]

So the PN is going with the proposed plan of 7 P-3Cs MPA and 3 P-3Cs AWE&C with some MPA features too.

[GHOST RIDER]

Photo in today's (February 22) newspaper of two Lockheed P-3C Orion aircraft (serial number 88 and 89) seen at PNS Mehran Naval Air Station, Karachi, after their induction in Pakistan Navy.

[Penguin]

they were received under foreign militery sales, i.e we paid for them..
regarding P-8 the upgraded p-3 are still the good enough to do their job but in comparison with p-8 has low endurance

P-3C OrionDescription: Lockheed four-engine propeller aircraft used as a submarine hunter and for surface surveillance.
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Propulsion: Four Allison T-56-A-14 turboprop engines (4,600 shaft horsepower each)
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Range:Typical mission: 10-12 hours duration; Maximum endurance: 14 hours

TWA Flight 800: WEAPONS SYSTEMS
Repost from: HTTP://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/...ft/air-p3.html

In support of the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) (DENY FLIGHT), the
JFC used MPA's ten-hour plus mission endurance to solve the problems with target (SAM,
embedded artillery and troop) locating/verification that weather had frustrated.

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA328496 (p 22, but read preceeding p21 also: there is becomes evident the MPA in question is P-3C)

VERSUS

P-8Unrefueled mission endurance: 9 hours;
Refueled mission endurance (air to air) : 23 hours

Boeing: P-8 Airborne Ground Surveillance

Powered by four Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans each capable of generating over 12,100lb (55kN) of thrust, the Nimrod had an impressive maximum speed of 500kt (925km/h) and an unrefuelled mission endurance of around 9h. Such characteristics set the "Mighty Hunter" a class apart from its turboprop rivals in the maritime patrol market.

Saying goodbye to the 'Mighty Hunter'

The ATR 72 ASW can execute patrols with a mission radius of 600 nautical miles (1,100+ km) for more than 2
hours with a total mission endurance of roughly 9 hours. With a 200 nautical miles (360+ km) mission radius the airplane can remain on station for 7 hours.

http://www.dbdc.gr/home/GDN_SEP10.pdf (page 10)

The Saab 2000 MPA can operate at a maximum range exceeding 2000 nautical miles, with mission endurance exceeding 9.5 hours. The Saab 2000 MPA can carry out a mission covering a 200 nm Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for 5.5 hours at an altitude of 2,000 ft, or longer patrol times at higher altitudes even up to 31000 ft. The aircraft on offer comes with promised 35,000 flight hours and a guaranteed support for 25 years by SAAB.

Sobre los P-3 Orion : - Página 82 - Foro Militar General

I'm not convinced ....

[RaptorRX707]

Pakistan repaid or free charge of the new two P-3Cs?

It is clearly after receiving two state of the art P3C aircrafts to Pakistan, Mehran Attack last year wasn't planned attacks from US, we guess we don't know who done this previous destoryed P3Cs............

any chance Pakistan investigation find out ?

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

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It was USA