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Here is a picture of what I was talking about in my previous post. This is a picture of a Royal Australian Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT with both hose and drogue pods under on the wingtips and the standard boom as well. The picture is courtesy of defense-update.com Falcone

Assalamu Alaikum. Sir Imran, If I may humbly adjust what you have written: the A330 MRTT is an Airbus product, not a Boeing product (it will be jointly produced by Airbus [EADS] and Northrop Grumman in the US). It would be economically impractical for the manufacturers of the JF-17 and...

Assalamu Alaikum. About the KC-135... It seems unlikely the US is going to supply the KC-135 and also that Pakistan will try to purchase the KC-135 (please correct me if I am wrong on this). One of the things that may discourage procurement of the KC-135 is the fact that the airframe, despite...

This might be old news, but here is potential confirmation of the U-214 deal: From Jane's Defense Industry Pakistan, Germany close to concluding Type 214 submarine deal The Pakistan Navy appears close to concluding a deal to procure Germany's Type 214 to meet its next-generation...

This is great news. Any idea on when these will join operational service and with which squadron? :pakistan:

One of the Saab 2000 Erieye aircraft for the Pakistan Air Force in Farnborough, England for the Farnborough 2008 Airshow.

Salams everyone. Here is some interesting news (if you have already seen it/posted it, forgive me): From F-16.net "US to deliver 10 refurbished F-16s to Pakistan June 4, 2008 (by Asif Shamim) - The United States Congress has notified the delivery of ten F-16s to Pakistan, which would...

Looks Brilliant! Thanks to who ever got the picture uploaded!

Great news!

NICE!

Same article from another source: "U.S. Transfers 25 Combat Helicopters To Pakistan Army Aviation Wing 10/22/2007 Islamabad - The U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, today paid rich tributes to the “courage and professionalism” of Pakistan Army aviation personnel and declared...

To JK: [Please correct me if I am wrong] If a country proudces something under a license (which, I assume, AW does for the Chinook), agreement, it has to get permission from the country granting the license to sell to a third country. For example, when there were proposals (or rumors) for...

This is an OH-58 Kiowa (or just the civillian Bell JetRanger), not an AH-1 Cobra.

Here is the news we have all been waiting for: The delivery of the F-16A/Bs has started! "US starts delivery of F-16s to Pakistan July 10, 2007 (by Asif Shamim) - The United States on Tuesday started delivery of F-16 aircraft to Pakistan when two were flown from the US & were handed...

Here is a new development: "WASHINGTON, May 25, 2007 The DSCA notified Congress of a possbile Foreign Military Sale to India of C-130J aircraft... [worth] $ 1, 059 million. The Government of India has requested a possible sale of: 6 LM C-130J USAF Baseline aircraft including USAF...