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To: Old Teufel Hunden
WRONG!!!! If you look at Pakistan Airforce capabilty ,it's USA who provided the edge over with Aid money and throw away cost. 36 New F-16 Block 50/52s - $3 billion The package for Pakistan's new F-16s also includes: 36 F-16C/D Block 50/52 aircraft with either the F100-PW-229 or F110-GE-129 Increased Performance Engines (IPEs) and APG-68(V)9 radars; 500 AIM-120C5 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM); 12 AMRAAM training missiles these have seeker warheads, but lack engines; 200 AIM-9M-8/9 Sidewinder Short-Range Air-Air Missiles; they are the version before the fifth-generation AIM-9X; 240 LAU-129/A Launchers these support AMRAAM or Sidewinder missiles; 500 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Guidance Kits: GBU-31/38 Guided Bomb Unit (GBU) kits; 1600 Enhanced-GBU-12/24 GBUs; 800 MK-82 500 pound General Purpose (GP) and MK-84 2,000 pound GP bombs; 700 BLU-109 2000 pound bunker-buster bombs with the FMU-143 Fuse; and, 7 spare F100-PW-229 IPE or F110-GE-129 IPE engines; 7 spare APG-68(V)9 radar sets; 36 Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS); 36 AN/ARC-238 SINCGARS radios with HAVE QUICK I/II; 36 Conformal Fuel Tanks (pairs) that fit along the aircraft's sides to give them extra range; 36 Link-16 Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals; DID has covered the tactical uses of MIDS-LVT Link 16 systems; 36 Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation Systems; 36 APX-113 Advanced Identification Friend or Foe Systems; 36 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suites without Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM); or AN/ALQ-184 Electronic Counter Measures pod without DRFM; or AN/ALQ-131 Electronic Counter Measures pod without DRFM; or AN/ALQ-187 Advanced Self-Protection Integrated Suites without DRFM; or AN/ALQ-178 Self-Protection Electronic Warfare Suites without DRFM; 1 Unit Level Trainer; So the question is why US provided pakistan air force wit 500 AMRAAM missile,1600 GBU etc etc ??? COZ last time i checked talibans still don't have any kinda airforce so what pakis gonna do with 500 AMrRAAM missile ?? Shooting flying carpets??
8 posted on 04/20/2011 10:46:36 AM PDT by Sancho1984
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To: Sancho1984

Well, I said I could be wrong about us supplying them with planes. Irrespective of that, India would be far better off with our F-16s and F-18s than with some of the crap exported from Russia. Who sold planes to Pakistan at one time? I believe the Russians! I don’t think that stopped India back then from buying Russian planes.


9 posted on 04/20/2011 10:52:46 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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