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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).

 

[Salza]

 

[Pakistanithinktank]

We still have Active Mirage in service and no new JF-17 squadron in 2026.​

• Mirage IIIEP/OF/RP — 47 active
• Mirage 5EF/F/PA — 35 active
• Mirage IIIBE/D/DP — 2 active
• Mirage 5DPA2 — 2 active

Total = 86 Mirage aircraft

 

[ghazi52]

 

[TAC]

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.

Many thanks for an exceptional & informative post which provides much needed perspective on this issue.

 

[Mohid Afzal]

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.

Apreciate the post. If you don't mind, I want to ask few questions about some projects that we saw in the past.
Q1, Since 2018, we heard and talked about a locally made AESA Radar. Any info regarding that?
Q2, The FAAZ program, I know it was merged with the Turkish AAM program but we haven't seen any further update. If you are aware of any progress, can you share it? Also, sometime back, there was a photo of FAAZ IIR on the JF-17 posted here, was it real or fake?
Q3, Back in 2024, we saw quite a few turbo jet programs in NASTP one of which was the NTJ-V1 and sometime later a larger unnamed turbo jet, any info about there progress?
Q4, One of the senior Mods said that the local manufacturing of the JF-17 has gone up to 70%, is this true? Not doubting the words of the person but I have my reasons to ask this.
Q5, Any status updates on the Rasoob CM? We saw updates on the Taimoor but nothing on the Rasoob.
Last question, How does, in your opinion, PAF plans on dealing with the replacement of the Mirages and the B1 JF-17's? The former is obsolete and dangeruos to keep flying and the later, according to many respected memebers, will reach the end of it's service life along side many old F-16's. This is a large number of planes that need replacing.

P.S if any of the questions are of sensitive nature, feel free to ignore or give vague answers.

 

[EgoKaempfer]

- yes he is Hungry for praise -

As for being Hungry...I bet Sidhu SB loves Aloo-Gosht too

 

[Raider 21]

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.

He does his job effectively and still has paintings made about him in flight gear to "Trump" level his existing legacy. He wants to be worshipped, not remembered.

 

[White Privilege]

He does his job effectively and still has paintings made about him in flight gear to "Trump" level his existing legacy. He wants to be worshipped, not remembered.

Why do you think he was chosen by the politicians for the post, does he have political connections??
Why was he the one to modernize PAF in such a way and his predecessor MAK didn't??
What systems he proposed as DCAS AD was not inducted then, why not and why only now they are being inducted??
@side-winder

 

[side-winder]

He does his job effectively and still has paintings made about him in flight gear to "Trump" level his existing legacy. He wants to be worshipped, not remembered.

There are some units which are his darlings like Cobras, HQ9, 16FEs etc. They get special favors because of that. They ask for assistance from any setup in whole PAF, it's provided at lightning fast speed. I would say OC 15 may have more powers than many air commodores from other branches lol.

So ofcourse they will do their "lifting" game for the CAS. Personally i am the strongest opponent of this "lifting" culture in military - but it's part of it. Sidhu just wants more of it what others want a little less. That's it.

 

[Cipher212]

He does his job effectively and still has paintings made about him in flight gear to "Trump" level his existing legacy. He wants to be worshipped, not remembered.

Have to say though. That is a very rare breed of human. Has massive ego but can back it up as well. Bro is 'Him'.