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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is building its second military/air force transport base at Masroor near Karachi to house multi-role C-130’s planes and authorities concerned are engaged day and night to complete it before December this year.
Well-placed defence sources told The News here that the base is being developed with assistance of the United States that will provide Pakistan the latest version of the C-130 planes. The planes are being supplied under an agreement, signed by both the countries last year when Pakistan’s defence secretary Lt. General Hamid Nawaz Khan visited the United States.
The sources said that supply of the planes would start in last month of this year. At least six planes will become part of the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) transport fleet within next year. With this the PAF fleet would close to double of the existing strength. The PAF had 12 C-130 in the beginning but four planes were destroyed in the process of their operations while one was damaged and still not in service.
The C-130 is the largest in number of the planes in one single configuration in use world over as 1530 planes of such category are being used by the different air forces. Till now Chaklala was the only transport base the PAF had and in case of any eventuality if the Chaklala renders inoperative, the whole transport is ceased. For the reason the PAF has decided to establish another base, the sources added.
The Masroor air base, previously known as Mauri Pur air base, is considered to be the forward base for provision of assistance for the naval operations. It is among the largest bases of Southern Air Command that used to have bomber planes. It was named after a valiant fighter pilot Masroor, who sacrificed his life in an operation in 1971 war with India.
The base will have hangers for the wide body planes and its airstrip will also be strengthened and expanded further, the sources said.
link http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews
accordin to the above report Pakistana will be provided with the latest varient of the c-130. n thats c-130j, which if true is amazin news.
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Well-placed defence sources told The News here that the base is being developed with assistance of the United States that will provide Pakistan the latest version of the C-130 planes. The planes are being supplied under an agreement, signed by both the countries last year when Pakistan’s defence secretary Lt. General Hamid Nawaz Khan visited the United States.
The sources said that supply of the planes would start in last month of this year. At least six planes will become part of the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) transport fleet within next year. With this the PAF fleet would close to double of the existing strength. The PAF had 12 C-130 in the beginning but four planes were destroyed in the process of their operations while one was damaged and still not in service.
The C-130 is the largest in number of the planes in one single configuration in use world over as 1530 planes of such category are being used by the different air forces. Till now Chaklala was the only transport base the PAF had and in case of any eventuality if the Chaklala renders inoperative, the whole transport is ceased. For the reason the PAF has decided to establish another base, the sources added.
The Masroor air base, previously known as Mauri Pur air base, is considered to be the forward base for provision of assistance for the naval operations. It is among the largest bases of Southern Air Command that used to have bomber planes. It was named after a valiant fighter pilot Masroor, who sacrificed his life in an operation in 1971 war with India.
The base will have hangers for the wide body planes and its airstrip will also be strengthened and expanded further, the sources said.
link http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews
accordin to the above report Pakistana will be provided with the latest varient of the c-130. n thats c-130j, which if true is amazin news.
Admin: Do not post multiple separate replies in future! These 3 replies were all within 10 minutes of each other.
We have better things to do than go and edit peoples posts when commonsense should prevail. This is not a numbers game.