Formation of MI-8 and Puma during Exercise Golden Eagle - May 1982
This was the first ever General Headquarters controlled joint Army Aviation and Special Services
Group exercise named’ Golden Eagle’ conducted by Chief of General Staff.
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It involved dawn-dusk heliborne
operations with #SSG troops. This exercise was held in area Haripur and Mansehra with participation by 4 #Army#Aviation Squadron (MI-8 ); 25 Army Aviation #Squadron along with additional crew from 21 Aviation Squadron.
#Reconnaissance started on 5 May 1982 and verbal orders were given on 13 May. Squadrons moved out on 28 May in area Haripur. The first mission of re-supply to commandos was carried out on 1 June 1982.
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On 4 June Lieutenant Colonel Shah Alam(25 Squadron) gave the verbal orders. Between 9 -11 June 1982, Army Aviation flew over eleven helicopters simultaneously for commando heliborne drops.
Out of this India had created a powerful force against West Pakistan (Present day Pakistan)and the deployment of the two forces at the start of the war were:
Lahore
🇵🇰: one inf Div
🇮🇳: two divisions (7, 15)
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- 11 AN/APG-83 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Scalable Agile Beam Radars
- 11 Modular Mission Computers (MMC) 7000AH
- 19 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) AIM-120C-7/C-8 or equivalent missiles
- 28) GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs)
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- 11 M61A1 Vulcan Cannons
- 20AIM-9X Block II missiles
- 8 AIM-9X Block II Captive Air Training Missiles (CATMs);
- 4 AIM-9X Block II Tactical Guidance Units
- 4 AIM-9X Block II CATM Guidance Units
- 24 FMU-139 or FMU-152 fuze systems
1. Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham, HI (U.S. Pacific Fleet headquarters) 2. Naval Base Kitsap, WA 3. Naval Station Everett, WA 4. Naval Base San Diego and Naval Base
Coronado, CA (U.S. Third Fleet headquarters)
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5. Naval Station Mayport, FL (U.S. Fourth Fleet headquarters) 6. Naval Submarine Base King’s Bay, GA 7. Naval Base Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary
Base Little Creek, VA (U.S. Fleet Forces Command and U.S. Second Fleet headquarters) 8. Naval Submarine Base New London, CT
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9. Keflavik, Iceland—Expeditionary Maritime Operations Center 10. Naval Station Rota, Spain 11. Naval Support Activity Gaeta, Italy (U.S. Sixth Fleet headquarters) 12. Naval Support Activity, Bahrain (U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters) 13. Lemonnier, Djibouti—Camp Lemonnier
Chinese Companies showcasing their defense products at World Defense Show (#WDS2022), Saudi Arabia
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Eight Chinese companies joined the exhibition, including China Aerospace Long March International Trading Co. (ALIT), China National Precision Machinery Import & Export Corporation, China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation,
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China Shipbuilding Trading Co., Ltd(CSTC), China North Industries Corp. (NORINCO), CETC International Co., Ltd, ELINC China Co.,Ltd (ELINC), Poly Technologies Inc.