Recent content by Planeman

In China, yes although it's hardly a credible nuclear strike platform these days. There's no evidence to suggest Pakistan is building nuclear free-fall bombs small enough for the A-5 Fantan, and why would anyone chose that launch platform relative to ballistic missiles anyway, so I'd suggest not...

Sorry, typo... F-7

Thanks, but why 5-7 years old? - the info?

Additional air defense units Pakistan could employ round nuclear facilities at times of tension Pakistan has a widely recognized weakness in ground based air defenses instead relying on its Air force for this purpose. But it does deploy large quantities of short range systems such as AAA and...

Point defenses of Pakistan’s strategic facilities. Pakistan relies heavily on its Air Force’s fleet of F-16, F6, Mirage III and soon JF-17 and F-10 fighters for air defense. Also, although the Pakistani Army is among the largest in the World, and heavily involved in...

Abdali Short Range Ballistic Missile (SRBM) (Hatf II)[ Range: 200km, Payload: 500kg. Years after abandoning the Hatf-II, the designation was recycled for a similar but more modern (and presumably more successful) design. The system is probably a replacement for the increasingly obsolete...

Amateur research and illustrations by me. Feedback welcome. This does not form an exhaustive or authoritative text on the subject and is politically unbiased. Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent is primarily shouldered by Army Strategic Force Command (ASFC) although the Air Force (PAF) and Navy...

I don't think all 74 boats were that type, more likely "74" includes logistics and lesser types. I've previously suggested the IPS-16 Peykaap was semi-submersible, but I'd doubt these locally built versions are, not least because with the new mast and external missiles it wouldn't be...