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[hasssanali8998]

There is a reason 15 Squadron, which was a mirage squadron. got J-10 C. Sidhu was its OC once upon a time and he is putting Mirage jockeys in key positions. Aurangzeb being a mirage jockey. Even the Sarghoda base the home of F-16 is being led by a Mirage jockey.

this is insane man single handedly ruining paf

 

[White Privilege]

There is a reason 15 Squadron, which was a mirage squadron. got J-10 C. Sidhu was its OC once upon a time and he is putting Mirage jockeys in key positions. Aurangzeb being a mirage jockey. Even the Sarghoda base the home of F-16 is being led by a Mirage jockey.

I have consistently heard that best Viper pilots have converted to J-10s. If former 15 sqn Mirage jockeys have not converted to J-10s significantly, than it is just another Viper unit upgraded. Sidhu is just bathing in a legacy that is not his. That is not his former Mirage unit neither his fellow delta jockeys he is posing with......

 

[Cipher212]

There is no shortage of people of skilled people in Pakistan. Instead of paying somebody to sing the cringe ass song they could have made a proper media team to come up with a better CGI video like this, or just asked some enthusiasts to record footage in DCS.

I don't get who thought it was a good idea to use those AI slop clips


PR is very minor thing, it doesn't affect PAF directly but at the same time, how much effort would it really take.

 

[side-winder]

Hehe - i see everyone riding the bandwagon of bashing Sidhu - most of these are just petty things (except few) compared to the work he has done.

Only those who have real connections with PAF know the transformation which has taken place over past 5 years in PAF - a difference of heaven and earth.

People assume Sidhu is just enjoying the cherries and taking the credit while people down the line are the ones doing the heavy lifting - nope that's not true - his job was to give danda and directions which he did very well.

Cyber operations in PAF wasn't a thing until only recently (yes, you don't have any idea about the role of cyber in may conflict and btw it was the novice cyber command which traced the sources of white paper leaks lol).

MDOs, satellites, space, EW, silent kill chain concepts were only novice concepts until recently.

Integration between Sensor-shooter and everything in-between and true net-centricity was only an immature concept until recently.

Induction of J10s in such short span of time wasn't a walk in the park.

GBAD was hardly recognized an important domain until recently. (Many of the AD inductions which you are seeing now were proposed by sidhu when he was DCAS AD).

Project Vision has completed projects directed by sidhu, you have no idea about.

since NASTP deals with R&D. Please be patient for the results you want to see. R&D takes decades to yield actual meaningful results. And they are slowly getting there so take a patience pill.

The traditional PAF was just a platform oriented force just like the IAF was in may 25. And that's exactly where they were lagging behind - being platform centric instead of net-centric - that's exactly what AM Masood Akhtar says here in this video about how all the old veterans used to laugh at Sidhu for what stupid stuff he was doing.



wonder how he is managing the funds for all these projects? Its not just more buying on credit cards.

He has re-organized the PAF - big cut on ranks, manpower and post retirement benefits - big cut on unnecessary flying hours especially of the transporter sqns - big cut on routine purchase funds of units in supporting roles - completely revamped the IG's branch to enhance organizational efficiency - numerous other measures in admin domain to cut down the expenses like bills, work services at bases etc.

Now lets come to the things you are all going after - yes he is Hungry for praise - yes he doesn't like criticism - yes he wants yes men around him - yeah maybe he saves some shares for his pocket - yeah bad things for a leader - but you don't get perfection in any man - you got to deal with goods and bads - he has got good vision and he has got exceptional admin skills - and that's what matters more than people worrying about sidhu having his pictures all over the walls.

 

[Ali_Baba]

Hehe - i see everyone riding the bandwagon of bashing Sidhu - most of these are just petty things (except few) compared to the work he has done.

Only those who have real connections with PAF know the transformation which has taken place over past 5 years in PAF - a difference of heaven and earth.

People assume Sidhu is just enjoying the cherries and taking the credit while people down the line are the ones doing the heavy lifting - nope that's not true - his job was to give danda and directions which he did very well.

Cyber operations in PAF wasn't a thing until only recently (yes, you don't have any idea about the role of cyber in may conflict and btw it was the novice cyber command which traced the sources of white paper leaks lol).

MDOs, satellites, space, EW, silent kill chain concepts were only novice concepts until recently.

Integration between Sensor-shooter and everything in-between and true net-centricity was only an immature concept until recently.

Induction of J10s in such short span of time wasn't a walk in the park.

GBAD was hardly recognized an important domain until recently. (Many of the AD inductions which you are seeing now were proposed by sidhu when he was DCAS AD).

Project Vision has completed projects directed by sidhu, you have no idea about.

since NASTP deals with R&D. Please be patient for the results you want to see. R&D takes decades to yield actual meaningful results. And they are slowly getting there so take a patience pill.

The traditional PAF was just a platform oriented force just like the IAF was in may 25. And that's exactly where they were lagging behind - being platform centric instead of net-centric - that's exactly what AM Masood Akhtar says here in this video about how all the old veterans used to laugh at Sidhu for what stupid stuff he was doing.



wonder how he is managing the funds for all these projects? Its not just more buying on credit cards.

He has re-organized the PAF - big cut on ranks, manpower and post retirement benefits - big cut on unnecessary flying hours especially of the transporter sqns - big cut on routine purchase funds of units in supporting roles - completely revamped the IG's branch to enhance organizational efficiency - numerous other measures in admin domain to cut down the expenses like bills, work services at bases etc.

Now lets come to the things you are all going after - yes he is Hungry for praise - yes he doesn't like criticism - yes he wants yes men around him - yeah maybe he saves some shares for his pocket - yeah bad things for a leader - but you don't get perfection in any man - you got to deal with goods and bads - he has got good vision and he has got exceptional admin skills - and that's what matters more than people worrying about sidhu having his pictures all over the walls.

Thanks for the update, gives a different perspective on things for lots of people here (including me).