Sea Sultan Long-Range MPA | Updates & Discussion

[Yasser76]

View attachment 202875

https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/NEWS-ARTICLES/News-Article-View/Article/884054/pakistan-navy-accepts-two-p-3c-orion-aircraft/

Were these part of the original order or replacements?

Yaar, CENTCOM press release is 2010. Attack was 2011.

 

[Gripen9]

Yaar, CENTCOM press release is 2010. Attack was 2011.

Post attack induction as well in 2012

Pakistan inducts American built P3C Orion surveillance aircraft

The aircraft, supplied by the US under its Security Assistance Programme, was inducted into the Pakistan Navy's aviation fleet during a ceremony held here in Karachi.

m.economictimes.com

 

[Yasser76]

Post attack induction as well in 2012

Pakistan inducts American built P3C Orion surveillance aircraft

The aircraft, supplied by the US under its Security Assistance Programme, was inducted into the Pakistan Navy's aviation fleet during a ceremony held here in Karachi.

m.economictimes.com

Yes, so maybe confusion as to these planes, were they part of orginal order or replacements from the attack.

Scramble is usually reliable and its states a total of 10 delivered. We lost one in an accident off the coast and 2 in the attacks. Leaving 7. I think if we had replacements we should have 9 active, but Scramble only lists 7

Military Database

scramble.nl

 

[Pakistan First]

Nope, they did not, despite having quite a few surplus ones due to P-8 inductions

We did received 2 after the attack:

Foreign military funding: Pakistan Navy takes delivery of two P3C aircraft | The Express Tribune

Two similar planes were destroyed earlier in a siege by militants.

tribune.com.pk

US to replace Pak's P3C Orions destroyed by terrorists: Report - The Times of India

Pakistan News: The US will supply two P3C Orion maritime surveillance planes to Pakistan to replace the aircraft that were destroyed in a terrorist strike on Karachi

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Discussion derailed needlessly on conspiracy theory tossed by a member that Pakistan attacked a US / NATO base using taliban / haqqanis and so US attacked and destroyed our PC3s as a response or the other way around lol. This makes zero sense. We'd never dare in our right mind to attack US base especially during those times. Also US could twist our arm in million other ways more effectively then doing all the effort of staging mehran base attack. They could have just put economic pressure anytime they'd want. Its way more effective. The conspiracy theory holds no ground. Haqqanis could be using our land but they never were our foot soldiers. and as for the US, a super power with gigantic influence over Pakistan, really don't need to stage terror attack to tame us. And how it would change our behavior in US favor ffs ? because as far as we are concerned, the attack was done by TTP. Why and how its gonna change our "supposed" relationship with Haqqanis? Just plain stupid conspiracy!

Its super obvious / common sense who was behind that attack. The same ones who's submarine got detected and photographed by PC-3s in 2019.

 

[HRK]

We did received 2 after the attack:

Foreign military funding: Pakistan Navy takes delivery of two P3C aircraft | The Express Tribune

Two similar planes were destroyed earlier in a siege by militants.

tribune.com.pk

US to replace Pak's P3C Orions destroyed by terrorists: Report - The Times of India

Pakistan News: The US will supply two P3C Orion maritime surveillance planes to Pakistan to replace the aircraft that were destroyed in a terrorist strike on Karachi

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

If I remember correctly those were part of original order not the replacement