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Below is a list of aircraft currently in active service with the Pakistan Air Force . All Block 1 and 2 JF-17s are planned to be upgraded to Block 3 standard. Several variants with extensive Project ROSE upgrades. All Mirage IIIs being replaced by Block 3 JF-17Cs [18] and J-10CEs.
The Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) was established on 15 August 1947 with the independence of Pakistan from British India. The RPAF began with a paper share allotment of 2,332 personnel, a fleet of 24 Tempest II fighter-bombers, 16 Hawker Typhoon fighters, two H.P.57 Halifax bombers, two Auster aircraft, twelve North American Harvard trainers and ten de Havilland Tiger Moth biplanes.
Contents. hide. (Top) Pakistan Air Force. Pakistan Army Aviation Corps. Pakistan Naval Air Arm. Pakistan Coast Guards. Pakistan Maritime Security Agency. See also.
1950–1958: the jet age. PAF Attackers from the No.11 Squadron (late 1950's) Although the Royal Pakistan Air Force had limited funds to use and markets to choose from, it entered the jet age quite early. Initially it had planned to acquire US-built F-94Cs, F-86s, or F-84s and produce its order in Pakistan.
The Sukhoi Su-57 (Russian: Сухой Су-57; NATO reporting name: Felon) is a twin-engine stealth multirole fighter aircraft developed by Sukhoi. It is the product of the PAK FA (Russian: ПАК ФА, prospective aeronautical complex of front-line aviation) programme, which was initiated in 1999 as a more modern and affordable alternative to the MFI (Mikoyan Project 1.44/1.42).
The CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder ( Urdu: جے ایف-17 گرج ), or FC-1 Xiaolong ( Chinese: 枭龙; pinyin: Xiāo Lóng; lit. 'Fierce Dragon'), is a lightweight, single-engine, multirole combat aircraft developed jointly by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) of China. [1] It was designed and developed as a ...
CCS F-7PG Squadron (No. 23 Squadron) Talons. Advanced Air Combat Tactics Development & Training. Central Air Command. PAF Airpower Centre of Excellence. 16 March 1961 (transferred to CCS from 31 AS Wing (Western Air Command), PAF Base Samungli (Quetta) in February 2023) PAF Base Mushaf. F-7PG/FT-7PG.
Aircraft flown. Electronic. warfare. RB-57F Canberra (1962~1977) Dassault Falcon 20F (1987—Present) No. 24 Squadron, named the Blinders, is an electronic warfare unit of the Pakistan Air Force equipped with Dassault Falcon 20 aircraft .