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[Jango]

Would be hard to execute and maintain Opsec with ch****s like her around.

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You think the enemy doesn't already know that?

 

[Yasser76]

Not directly tied. But if the FOBs and rear bases are under stress, then aircraft with less endurance (F-7s with external tanks have an endurance of about 40 mins) would be the more likely aircraft to rely on alternate highway runways. F-16s and JF-17s have endurance of over an hour per sortie. They can fly farther and get recovered on air fields/bases at the rear.

However, I think you are right that all aircraft in the inventory could take advantage and perhaps a fully loaded MR aircraft like F-16 would tax the roads. I think it would be silly for these motorways to have been built not taking into account the MTOW of various aircraft in our inventory. Don't think that is the case though.

Credit to Nawaz (I am not a PML supporter), but he built these to world class level and very high specs. On Lahore to Islamabad one did not feel you were in a developing nation. Motorway and service station very well built and very smart

 

[Afif]

the reality is, and ive been saying this now for ages that HAS are useless.

Once upon a time they may have worked, but unless you want 20 foot deep walls etc, they arent stopping anything.

Mountain and underground bases arent a great idea either, you've got one entry and exit, perhaps a few, all it takes is to pound them and the assets are once again as good as nothing.

Despersed assets, motorway operations etc are the way forward. Airbases wont last.

Dispersed motorway operation will require really good C-UAS across the country. Specially at lower altitude. Considering a capable enemy can sustain hundred of low cost ISR UAV operations across the border at any given time. (Observing from Ukraine)

 

[Reichsmarschall]

You think the enemy doesn't already know that?

I think the enemy didnt know the exact location

 

[Oscar]

I think the enemy didnt know the exact location

They know
The areas are fairly easy to determine based on the requirements for aircraft. The focus now does not need to be hiding jets versus creating decoys and false movements. Fund the gap in their surveillance and then in the surveillance windows flood it with false information.

In addition, and I can’t believe I am suggesting this - but a mechanism must exist to be able to reduce the ways information gets out.

Maybe the future is a wechat for Pakistan but then you have the risk of reducing the attractiveness of the already troubled IT sector.

Cannot be security focused and not have its side effects

 

[kimjongun]

These motorways can be good place to launch LMs too.

 

[ghazi52]

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[hasssanali8998]

Pakistan announces partial closure of airspace for commercial flights till March 31. According to the NOTAM, selected ATS route segments in Karachi and Lahore FIRs unavailable from 03–31 March 2026, daily 0900–1500 PKT due to operational reasons.

Tribune-PAA to shut Karachi, Lahore air routes during specific hours citing Middle East crisis

 

[ghazi52]

ADA Guys....

 

[hasssanali8998]

A beautiful Persian poem by Allama Iqbal appears on the Pakistani Air Force logo:
زد بانگ که شاهینم و کارم به زمین چیست
صحراست که دریاست ته بال و پر ماست

Translation of both lines:

1- He cried out
I am a falcon, and the ground is not my concern.

2- The desert and the sea lie beneath my wings and feathers

seeing the iranian sitiuation reminded me of this poem .
may allah bless PAF

 

[bravo_1]

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[T80UD]

Hey so I have a question, is there a way the Aspides we have in our inventory be used on the F-16 ADFs? Considering Aspides are based on the Sparrow and the ADF was all about giving sparrow capability to F-16s so can it be done? Not saying it should be.

@Oscar @JamD @Ak01

 

[Ali_Baba]

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Happy to see the promotion, but in "English", what is his new erm job? What does he do now? lol.

 

[Ak01]

Hey so I have a question, is there a way the Aspides we have in our inventory be used on the F-16 ADFs? Considering Aspides are based on the Sparrow and the ADF was all about giving sparrow capability to F-16s so can it be done? Not saying it should be.

@Oscar @JamD @Ak01

sam uncle ky baghair kuch bhi karna mushkil hai.

Also, the aspide 2000 is a very different missile. the only thing it really shares is the airframe, everything else is new, from seeker to rocket motor.

 

[Ak01]

Happy to see the promotion, but in "English", what is his new erm job? What does he do now? lol.

in charge of mating like the 5 ra'ad's we have to a nuke