Pakistan's Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircrafts

[Qureshi]

Nopes. I have serials of total of 10 Erieyes including one destroyed and one inducted yesterday.

Erieye (older batches) (9)
09-049
10-020
10-025
10-040
10-045
11-045
18-060
18-081
20-057

Erieye (Batch 2023) (1)
23-058

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Let's put things in order, if I understands correct we have at current 10 units & 3 more to come 10 + 3 = 13 Erieye & 4 ZDKs (till we have official verdict from PAF).

 

[Yasser76]

Let's put things in order, if I understands correct we have at current 10 units & 3 more to come 10 + 3 = 13 Erieye & 4 ZDKs (till we have official verdict from PAF).

I think some of these SAABs are not Erieye. My guess is around 8-9 Erieye and 4-5 standard SAAB 200s, good news is normal SAABs will save Erieye airframe hours with regards to training pilots

 

[farooqbhai]

I think some of these SAABs are not Erieye. My guess is around 8-9 Erieye and 4-5 standard SAAB 200s, good news is normal SAABs will save Erieye airframe hours with regards to training pilots

I only quoted serials of Erieyes not Saabs, PAF has at least 5+ SAAB2ks in transport/VIP/ISR roles.

 

[Oscar]

We had seven operating before, and we received one last month, for a total of eight Erieyes and four ZDKs.

12 operational AEW&Cs...

I am still leaning towards the ZDK retirement scheme. It simply makes no sense for Pakistan’s size to have so many AEW even with a poor 50% operational rate.. heck the entirety of NATO organization E-3 fleet is around 15 aircraft.

 

[Hopefully Pessimistic]

no it isnt

What's inaccurate about it

 

[Hopefully Pessimistic]

I am still leaning towards the ZDK retirement scheme. It simply makes no sense for Pakistan’s size to have so many AEW even with a poor 50% operational rate.. heck the entirety of NATO organization E-3 fleet is around 15 aircraft.

Apparently they are being "upgraded and converted to a transport role"

 

[Hopefully Pessimistic]

9 AWACS - Saab + ZDK
So when the 4 come in and the ZDKs are let go - the 9 number remains.

Getting different numbers of Erieyes from different people

Let's put things in order, if I understands correct we have at current 10 units & 3 more to come 10 + 3 = 13 Erieye & 4 ZDKs (till we have official verdict from PAF).

Didn't you say one of those was destroyed? So it should be 12 Erieyes in total including the 4 new ones and minus the destroyed one.

12 AWACS with ZDKs converted to transport/EW

 

[GriffinsRule]

I only quoted serials of Erieyes not Saabs, PAF has at least 5+ SAAB2ks in transport/VIP/ISR roles.

Do you pics images of the new Erieyes?

 

[CSAW]

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[HRK]

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I think 4 C-130 were shown @farooqbhai ?

 

[Ak01]

I think 4 C-130 were shown
View attachment 7321

+2 spares for cannibalisation iirc

 

[Zarvan]

I am still leaning towards the ZDK retirement scheme. It simply makes no sense for Pakistan’s size to have so many AEW even with a poor 50% operational rate.. heck the entirety of NATO organization E-3 fleet is around 15 aircraft.

Is it possible that we are using AWACS for EW role also. Also, according to Pakistan Strategic forum guys. The ZDK radars would be retired not the planes. The planes will get converted into either EW role or transport role.

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[Hopefully Pessimistic]

Is it possible that we are using AWACS for EW role also. Also, according to Pakistan Strategic forum guys. The ZDK radars would be retired not the planes. The planes will get converted into either EW role or transport role.

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Those guys are not a reliable source but yeah that's probably the case

 

[nahtanbob]

What are the paf analysts doing while evaluating the plane

Heck the Indian Air Force retired the An-12 30+ years ago

 

[studsmart]

Heck the Indian Air Force retired the An-12 30+ years ago

So ... India acquired mig21 in 1965 and we did Chinese copy in late 80s ... That logic make no sense