Indian Air Force Network Centric Warfare (NCW) plans - a thread🧵

During 2008, someone at Indian Air Force Air Headquarters (AHQ) had placed a presentation on their planned NCW on the internet-exposed section of their network, allowing Google crawler to save a copy before it was taken down. This thread is based on that HTML version (converted to a Word document) of the PowerPoint presentation - so it might be a bit gibberish, but if you are familiar with the topic, you'll understand its content. IAF backbone

PAF and the induction of the F-86E - a brief thread

The clandestine procurement of 90 surplus ex-Luftwaffe Canadair Sabre 6s from West Germany by Pakistan could have made for a gripping thriller movie. It involved Germans, including ex-Nazi’s, ...
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.. Iranian & Pakistan Air Force officers and the usual suspect, the US government.

Even though Pakistan was under the American arms embargo, it was able to procure the 90 surplus Canadair Sabre Mk.2s from West Germany via Merex AG, an arms trading firm, opened and run by ..
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The PAF's touch and go with the Il-28 - a thread:

During 1965–71, the Pakistan Air Force had to absorb, at the cost of significant combat capacity, five years of the US arms embargo which was imposed on Pakistan at the start of 1965 Indo-Pak war.
1/n During this period PAF had continued structurally to suffer a growing offence-defence imbalance with a dwindling number of B-57s and F-86s that had to be replaced by the lighter and shorter-range Chinese F-6s and a worsening obsolescence in its combat force.
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