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Tony Cartalucci : Globalists’ Zionist Neocon Pakistan War Plan: Destabilization and invasion long planned

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Globalists’ Pakistan War Plan:

Destabilization and invasion long planned

by Tony Cartalucci
Bangkok, May 11, 2011

In a 2007 article from the London Guardian titled, “Bush handed blueprint to seize Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal,” it is stated that fears of destabilization inside Pakistan might prompt the United States to occupy Islamabad and the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, and Baluchistan in an attempt to secure Pakistan’s nuclear warheads. Behind this report is Fredrick Kagan, brother of the equally sloven Robert Kagan of the Foreign Policy Initiative, yet another contrived, corporate fueled warmongering think-tank.

Fredrick Kagan sits within the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which is largely dominated and run by Jews and Zionists with Israel’s rather than American interests at heart. AEI’s board of trustees represents a wide variety of corporate-financier interests including those of the notorious Carlyle Group, State Farm, American Express, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (also of the CFR). War criminal Dick Cheneyalso acts as a trustee. Joining Kagan as members of AEI’s “research staff” are warmongers Newt Gingrich, John Bolton, Richard Perle, John Yoo, and Paul Wolfowitz.

While the sense of self-importance these degenerates shower upon themselves may seem comical, with titles like “senior fellow” and “resident scholar,” the fact that their “policy research” usually becomes corporate subsidized “policy reality” and subsequently the American people’s unending nightmare, is enough reason to keep tabs on them. For instance Fredrick Kagan was supposedly the architect behind the US troop surge in Iraq. And while we may kid ourselves that with Obama taking office the agenda of these supposed Neo-Conservatives is sidelined, Paul Wolfowitz’ plan to overthrow the nations of the Middle East, now being fully executed with US-funded revolutions, probably couldn’t have been done without the veil of “left-cover.”

Kagan’s report regarding Pakistan’s partial occupation and the seizure of its nuclear arsenal is founded on what may first appear to be a reasonable concern; the fear of Pakistan collapsing and its nuclear arsenal falling into the wrong hands. According to Kagan’s narrative, Islamic extremists seizing Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal pose as much a threat today as “Soviet tanks” once did.

It’s not terrorists, it’s China

What Kagan leaves out is the very source of this destabilization and America’s overall grand strategy in the region. America’s continued presence in Afghanistan as well as its increasingly aggressive “creep” over the Afghan-Pakistani border has been justified under the ambiguous and omnipresent threat of “terrorism.” In reality, the true goal is to contain the rise of China and other emerging economies using the pretense of “terrorism.” Destabilization via foreign-funded ethnic insurgencies, regime change via foreign-funded sedition, and a regional strategy of tension between power brokers in Beijing, New Delhi, and Islamabad have for years attempted to keep in check not just China and Pakistan’s rise, but India’s as well.

This is not merely speculative conjecture. China itself has recently accused the United States of directly attempting to destabilize their nation as well as using the pretense of “terrorism” as a means to hobble China’s growing influence. In an April 2011 Reuters report, it was stated that “a senior domestic security official, Chen Jiping, warned that “hostile Western forces” — alarmed by the country’s rise — were marshalling human rights issues to attack Party control.” Compounding China’s accusations are open admissions by the US State Department itself declaring that tens of millions will be spent to help activists circumvent China’s security networks in an effort to undermine Beijing. This comes after it has been revealed that the entire “Arab Spring” was US-funded.

The issue of Pakistan in regards to China is not merely a figment of a paranoid Beijing’s imagination, it is stated policy circulating throughout America’s corporate-funded think-tanks. Selig Harrison of the Soros funded Center for International Policy has published two pieces specifically calling for carving off of Pakistan’s Baluchistan province, not as part of a strategy to win the “War on Terror,” but as a means to thwart growing relations between Islamabad and Beijing.

In “Free Baluchistan,” he explicitly calls to “aid the 6 million Baluch insurgents fighting for independence from Pakistan in the face of growing ISI repression.” He continues by explaining the various merits of such meddling by stating, “Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the heart of Baluch territory. So an independent Baluchistan would serve U.S. strategic interests in addition to the immediate goal of countering Islamist forces.”

In a follow up article titled, “The Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis,” Harrison begins by stating, “China’s expanding reach is a natural and acceptable accompaniment of its growing power—but only up to a point. ” He then repeats his call for meddling in Pakistan by saying, “to counter what China is doing in Pakistan, the United States should play hardball by supporting the movement for an independent Baluchistan along the Arabian Sea and working with Baluch insurgents to oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar. Beijing wants its inroads into Gilgit and Baltistan to be the first step on its way to an Arabian Sea outlet at Gwadar.”

Gwadar in the southwest serves as a Chinese port, the starting
point for a logistical corridor through Pakistan and into Chinese
territory. The plan is to plunge the entire nation into chaos and use
US forces to systematically “help” restore order. (click to enlarge)

The very suggestion of fomenting armed violence simply to derail sovereign relations between two foreign nations is scandalous and reveals the absolute depths of depravity from which the global elite operate from. It is quite clear that the “War on Terror” is but a pretense to pursue a policy of regional hegemony with the expressed goal of containing China. This in turn, is part of a greater strategy covered in the 2006 Strategic Studies Institute report “String of Pearls: Meeting the Challenge of China’s Rising Power across the Asian Littoral.” Throughout the report China’s growing influence and various means to co-opt and contain it are discussed. SSI makes special note to mention engaging with all of China’s neighbors in an effort to play them off against Beijing in order to maintain American preeminence throughout Asia.

Destabilizing Pakistan

In addition to the Gwadar port in Pakistan’s Baluchistan region, China has also built dams, roads, and even nuclear power plants in the country. China has also supplied Pakistan with a tremendous amount of military technology. The only cards America seems to have left in its hand to counter this growing relationship are threats of destabilization, the subsequent stripping of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, and Pakistan’s Balkanization into smaller, ineffectual states.

In a 2009 article by Seymour Hersh titled, “Defending the Arsenal,” much attention was given to the immense amount of suspicion and distrust Pakistan views America with. In particular, distrust is garnered over America’s obsession with “defending” Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. Under the pretense of “helping” Pakistan if ever it fell into chaos, America has been trying to ascertain the location of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons as well as the trigger assembles kept separate as a security measure.

While America supposedly “fears” destabilization, concurrently, the effects of their war with the Taliban on the Afghan-Pakistan border has overtly stirred up instability inside Pakistan. At one point, Hersh describes Islamabad’s request for predator drones to conduct the attacks themselves, which was denied. They then asked for America to at least pretend to have given the drones to Pakistan and give them Pakistani markings – this was also denied. In fact, it seems almost as if the war against the Taliban, especially the drone campaign, is being used specifically to stir up the Pashtun minority and aim them at Islamabad, just as Harrison had suggested the Baluchistan insurgents be used to carve off Pakistan’s southwest coastal region.

This brings us back to Fredrick Kagan’s “blueprint,” which is summed up in a New York Times piece co-authored with Brookings Institution’s Michael O’Hanlon. Their article titled, “Pakistan’s Collapse, Our Problem,” describes the complete collapse of the Pakistani government, overrun by “extremists.” It goes on to describe “Pro-American moderates” within the Pakistani army in need of US forces to help them secure Islamabad and their nuclear arsenal. Several options are given for where the nuclear weapons could be stored safely, all of them involve US oversight. This would give the US an ideal geopolitical scenario that would permanently Balkanize the country along Pashtun, Baluchi, and other ethnic minority lines, and result in a permanent Western presence inside the country.

The article then goes on to say larger military operations to take back Balkanized sections of the country could be undertaken, “If a holding operation in the nation’s center was successful, we would probably then seek to establish order in the parts of Pakistan where extremists operate. Beyond propping up the state, this would benefit American efforts in Afghanistan by depriving terrorists of the sanctuaries they have long enjoyed in Pakistan’s tribal and frontier regions.”

It should be noted that co-author Michael O’Hanlon also contributed to the “Which Path to Persia?” report which described how using foreign-funded armed insurgency, foreign-funded popular revolutions, co-opting members of the military, and covert military operations could be used to topple Iran’s government. In Iran’s case, this plan has already gone operational. In Pakistan’s case it seems all but a foregone conclusion that it is at least being attempted.

If Kagan’s plan were executed after sufficient instability and justification had been created, China’s holdings in Pakistan would be entirely eliminated, with Pakistan itself becoming a permanent extension of the unending US occupation of Afghanistan. This explains China’s initial reaction to the “Bin Laden” hoax. Immediately recognizing the unfolding implications, China rushed to Islamabad’s defense calling for support from the international community for Islamabad. China also criticized America’s intrusion into Pakistan’s sovereign territory.

The US raid incensed the Pakistani people, attempted to drive a wedge between the military and the government, as well as gave rhetorical leverage to the US over Islamabad and the Pakistani military. The suggestion by the US that “Bin Laden” had a support network inside Pakistan’s military appears to be an initial attempt to usher in some form of Kagan’s “nuke-napping” invasion plan. With Beijing openly accusing the US of interfering in its internal affairs and with the “Arab Spring” quickly turning into regional warfare, there is no turning back for the globalists.

The corporate-financier oligarchs and their many helping hands are a degenerate elite who have spent their entire lives sheltered from the consequences of their actions. It has always been the soldiers and the taxpayers who bore the brunt for their delusions of grandeur. To them, war is a cost-benefit analysis, and like their financial pyramid schemes that only get bigger and bigger, so too their gambles with our lives and treasure. It appears that they are quite willing to destabilize Pakistan, a nation with 170 million people, and risk war, a nuclear exchange, and a possible confrontation with China and Russia in the process.

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TARIQUE NIAZI: WHY IS JF 17 THUNDER A REAL THREAT TO PAKISTAN’S ENEMIES? THUNDER IN SINO-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

Posted by admin in China, CHINA -PAKISTAN FRIENDSHIP, CHINA SHINING, Defense, Pakistan Air Force on January 28th, 2013

Why is JF-17 Thunder a Real Threat by dm_50d9ab0679d41

Thunder in Sino-Pakistani Relations

Publication: China Brief Volume: 6 Issue: 5

December 31, 1969 07:00 PM Age: 43 yrs

By: Tarique Niazi, PAKISTAN THINK TANK ARCHIVES

Since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1951, Sino-Pakistani relations have steadily deepened, and the two countries have never had a public disagreement over any bilateral, regional, or global issue. If there was any wrinkle in their mutual relations, it was amicably resolved in private, outside the view of the world’s eye. The key to this closeness has been the frequency of highest-level contacts between the two countries, which yielded unprecedented results. A case in point is the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Pakistan in April last year, which led to the signing of the “Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Good Neighborly Relations” (Dawn, April 6, 2005). The treaty binds both signatories to desist from joining “any alliance or bloc which infringes upon the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of the other side” (Ibid.).

Similarly, General Musharraf’s third state visit to Beijing on February 19-23, which was a week apart from President Bush’s planned visit to South Asia in March, further strengthened the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Good Neighborly Relations. On February 20, China and Pakistan signed 13 agreements in Beijing, while President Hu Jintao and General Musharraf remained present at the signing ceremony. Of these, agreements on defense production, particularly the manufacture of multi-role JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft, nuclear power generation, and strategic infrastructure-building, including the widening of the Karakorum Highway, are critically important to the future direction of Islamabad’s relations with Beijing.

Joint Defense Production: JF-17s

Nothing explains Pakistan’s Sino-centric relations better than its defense and strategic ties with Beijing. Since the 1970s, these relations have continued to deepen and widen with progressive expansion in defense cooperation. Joint defense production, however, peaked in the 2000s. Today, all three branches of the Pakistani military—land, air and navy (in that order)—are equipped with Chinese weapons systems. Taxila Heavy Industrial Complex, situated near Islamabad, was the first seed of mutual collaboration that sprouted to branch off into building components for air defense. As a result, a state-of-the-art Aeronautical Complex was built at Kamra, a small town in Attock district of the Punjab province. Most recently, Beijing has offered Islamabad a helping hand in building two frigates at its naval base in Karachi, which will be a landmark breakthrough in their joint naval defense production as well. General Musharraf, at the conclusion of his five-day visit to Beijing, declared that “defense relations have been the bedrock of Sino-Pakistan relations” (Dawn, February 25). The hallmark of their decades-long defense collaboration, however, is the joint production of JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft, which General Musharraf described as a “great success.” He favorably compared JF-17s with the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fighter jets “in platform engine, maneuverability, avionics and capability of carrying various modern weapon systems” (Ibid.).

JF-17s are being manufactured in Chengdu, capital of China’s Sichuan province. In 1999, Chengdu Aircraft Industry Company (CATIC) signed an agreement with the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) for joint production of JF-17s. Since then, CATIC, Chengdu Aircraft Designing Institute and the PAF have been working on this project. They rolled out the prototype of JF-17 on September 3, 2003, the test-flight of which satisfied both Chinese and Pakistani pilots. Almost two-and-a-half years later, General Musharraf watched the demonstration flight of the aircraft on February 22 when he visited Chengdu, Sichuan, which is China’s center of high-tech defense production. General Musharraf was so impressed by the manufacture of JF-17s that he had a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between China and Pakistan to declare Sichuan and Punjab (Pakistan’s most populous province that predominantly contributes “manpower” to the country’s three services) as “sister provinces” (Dawn, February 22). Pakistan is now celebrating JF-17s as worthy substitutes for F-16s.

Although Pakistan did receive 40 F-16s from the U.S. in the 1980s and is expected to receive an additional 80 F-16s this year, it still faces problems in their maintenance and service as its access to spare parts and manufacture technology is highly regulated (Dawn, February 25). This is what, Pakistan thinks, makes the U.S. an “unreliable” arms supplier, pushing Islamabad into the instinctive embrace of Beijing, which it considers an “all-weather friend” (Daily Times, February 24). Since 9/11, the U.S., however, has taken important measures to rebuild Pakistan-U.S. relations into longer-lasting cooperation. A case in point is Pakistan’s upgraded status as a major non-NATO ally of the U.S. to the perceptible unease of India, its arch rival. Yet Pakistan views such steps as symbolic as compared to the emerging strategic partnership between India and the U.S.

Nuclear Power Production

Pakistan is especially wary of the Indo-U.S. agreement on the transfer of nuclear power technology to Delhi, which is expected to be finalized during President Bush’s visit to India later this week. Since the signing of the Indo-U.S. nuclear agreement on July 18, 2005, when Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a state visit to the U.S., Pakistan has been lobbying the U.S. to allow it the same access to nuclear power technology, but to no avail. It is not just the ruling Republican Party in the U.S. that is averse to providing Islamabad with nuclear reactors; leaders of the Democratic Party are even more adamant on this issue. Senator John Kerry, who visited Pakistan this year on January 14-15, told a news conference in Islamabad: “India is a democracy and it has adhered to the non-proliferation agreement in all the years of its involvement with nuclear facilities. This is not yet true of Pakistan, though Pakistan is moving in that direction” (The Hindu, January 16). Pakistan is, nevertheless, pursuing a plan to generate 8,000 MW of electrical power from nuclear fuel by 2020, an ambitious plan that makes it look to Beijing for support.

Beijing has already provided Islamabad a 300-MW nuclear reactor (Chashma-I), which is sited in a small town—Chashma—of the Punjab province. Beijing has now agreed to provide another nuclear power plant—Chashma-II—which will be sited next to Chashma-I. It will take five years before Chashma-II becomes operational. In addition, Pakistan is in talks with Beijing to buy six to eight nuclear power reactors of 600 MW each over the next decade (Press Trust of India, January 3). If the talks are successful, Pakistan will buy a number of nuclear reactors at the cost $10 billion to produce 4,800 MW of electricity. Pakistan’s current production of nuclear power is just 425 MW (Ibid.). Although Pakistan denies any such talks, it did sign an agreement with Beijing on February 20 to further “deepen cooperation in peaceful application of nuclear power.” In addition, Pakistan and China signed an “energy cooperation framework agreement,” which will explore the possibility of a gas pipeline between Iran and China through Pakistan (Dawn, February 22).

Strategic Infrastructure: the Karakorum Highway

Besides, China and Pakistan are engaged in building key strategic infrastructures to further strengthen their defense ties. The construction of the Karakorum Highway (KKH)—which connects western China and its largest autonomous region of Xinjiang with Pakistan’s Northern Areas (NAs) all the way through Islamabad—was the first such major project. Since its completion in the 1970s, the Karakorum Highway has been used for limited trade and travel, however. In harsh winters, the stretch running through the Northern Areas and Xinjiang becomes unusable for motorized traffic due to heavy snowfall. Chinese and Pakistani engineers have since been trying to render it into an all-weather passageway. Yet limited trade and travel remained a poor incentive for such an expensive undertaking, until its renewed strategic significance became all too apparent in recent days. In a strict strategic sense, KKH is considered priceless. It gives Beijing unhindered access to Jammu and Kashmir in India, in addition to enabling it to the India’s movement along Aksai Chin, which China seized from India in 1962, severing India’s land-link to China’s turbulent autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang. For Pakistan, the KKH is an added security for its turbulent Northern Areas, all the way up to Siachin where Indian and Pakistani troops have been in a stand-off since the mid-1980s.

On February 20, China and Pakistan agreed to widen KKH for larger vehicles with heavier freight. The rebuilding of KKH will enable China to ship its energy supplies from the Middle East from Gwader Port in Baluchistan through the land route of KKH to western China, which is its development hub. This alternative energy supply route will reduce Beijing’s dependence on the Malacca Straits. General Musharraf also wants to set up a “crude transit route” through Gwader Port for Beijing’s energy shipments from Iran and Africa. For this reason, Pakistan is building oil refineries, natural gas terminals, oil and gas equipment, and transit facilities in Baluchistan. China has agreed to help Pakistan with its plans for the development of its oil and gas industry. With this planned elaborate energy infrastructure, KKH has assumed an added significance as an alternative land link between China and its energy sources, of which Iran sits atop.

Beijing and Tehran are now all set to sign a $100 billion agreement on developing Iran’s Yadavaran oil field in southern Iran as early as March this year (Reuters, February 17). Under this agreement, China will buy 10 million tons of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Iran each year over the next 25 years. KKH would be the shortest and safest land route to ship Iranian LNG to western China. In return for LNG, China will develop the Yadavaran oil field, which is estimated to have three billion barrels of oil and is expected to produce about 300,000 barrels of oil per day, which is equivalent to China’s current imports from Iran (Ibid.). General Musharraf wants to turn Pakistan into China’s “energy corridor” for Chinese energy imports from the Middle East, Persian Gulf and Africa (Daily Times, February 18). He also wants Pakistan to be China’s “trade corridor” for its exports to Central Asia. For the latter reason, Pakistan has recently built the Torkham-Jalalabad road in northwestern Pakistan (i.e., Pakhtunkhaw province) and Chaman-Kandahar railroad link in Baluchistan to carry Chinese manufactured goods to Central Asia through Afghanistan.

China generously recognizes General Musharraf’s contribution to forging even closer relations between Beijing and Islamabad. It also wants Pakistan to play a bigger role in the region, for which General Musharraf has asked Beijing to upgrade Pakistan’s observer status at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to full membership. China will notify all SCO member states of Pakistan’s request to consider it at the SCO’s scheduled summit meeting this year (Dawn, February 20). To honor his contribution and his visit to Beijing, China put General Musharraf’s face on its postage stamps, which is a rare gesture even by Chinese standards.

Conclusion

Defense and strategic ties are the bedrock of Sino-Pakistan relations, which are too solid for any hint of weakness. Their ambitious future agenda for high-tech defense production (such as JF-17s and Frigates), nuclear power generation, and strategic infrastructure building (such as KKH and deep-sea Gwader Port) will further energize their ties. Although Sino-Pakistan relations have flourished under all military governments in Islamabad, General Musharraf has taken them to even greater heights by signing a territorial defense treaty in April last year, and literally and metaphorically putting (JF-17) “thunder” in Sino-Pakistan relations.

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Defense Industry Daily : PAFs Acquisition & Co-Production Plans after Chinese JF 17 & J-10B, Fighters/Bombers, & Longer Term Plans Include J 31, after their induction by PLA

Posted by admin in Pakistan Air Force, Pakistan-A Nation of Hope on January 13th, 2013

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SUPER LIGHTNING – OF THE PAKISTAN AIR FORCE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT JF-17BLOCK2

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Pakistan’s JF-17 air force combat aircraft

original set of military Digest 2011.2

Recently, a few photos of J-10B fighter’s radar array in Chinese websites exposed. Users analysis think that the pictures shows the J-10B’s radar is a passive phased array radar (PESA). PESA radar usually the middle of a row or rows of IFF antenna. The Active Phased Array Radar (AESA) has not yet seen the middle of this line is a flat surface without protrusion, so some users believe that the yellow radar map the surface of the black dots array for the IFF actual antenna, which fire control radar is to determine whether to adopt active phased array main indicator of high-tech.

Ordinary radar beam scanning by the radar antenna rotation is achieved, also known as mechanical scanning radar.

The power phased array radar is a way to control changes in the radar beam point scanning, this approach is known as electronic scanning. Phased array radar, radar though not as dependent as other rotating antenna to make the radar beam rotation, but it is their own “trick”, that is using the “phase shifter” to turn the radar beam. Phased array radar antenna is a large number of radiators (small antenna) array consisting of (square, triangle, etc.), radiator varies from several hundred to as many as several thousand, even thousands, of each radiator are connected to the back of a controllable phase shifter, each phase shifter controlled by the computer. When the search for long-range phased array radar target, although do not see the antenna rotation, but tens of thousands of radiators controlled by computer focus fired in one direction, deflection, even thousands of meters away on the intercontinental missile and several thousands of meters satellite, can not escape its “eyes.” If the goal is to deal with more recent of these emitters and can share the responsibility, produce multiple beams, some search, some track, and some guidance. It is this radar abandon the general principle of the radar antenna, it gave it a different name — phased array radar, that “the phase to control the antenna array” means.

Phased array radar is divided into active (active) and passive (passive) categories. In fact, active andpassive phased array radar antenna array the same, the main difference between the two is the transmit / receive element number. Passive phased array radar is only one central transmitter and a receiver, transmitter, high frequency energy generated by the computer automatically assigned to each radiator array, the target reflected signal amplified by the receiver uniform (unlike ordinary radar not very different). Active Phased Array Radar for each radiator is equipped with a transmitter / receiver module, each component can generate their own, receiving electromagnetic waves, and therefore bandwidth, signal processing and redundancy degree of the design than the passive phased array radar has a larger advantage. Because of this, it makes the active phased array radar, expensive and engineering more difficult. But the active phased array radar has unique advantages in functionality, a great passive phased array radar replaces the trend.

Active Phased Array Radar biggest difficulty lies in transmit / receive components manufacturing, relatively speaking, passive phased array radar is much less technical difficulty. Passive phased array radar in power, efficiency, beam control and reliability, as active phased array radar, but the functionality is obviously better than the ordinary mechanical scanning radar, after all, a good compromise. Therefore developed a practical active phased array radar, before completely passive phased array radar as a transitional product. Moreover, even if the active phased array radar, developed after the passive phased array radar, phased array radar as a family of low-end products, still has great practical value.

The mainstream of the world have installed a new fighter AESA phased array radar, the installation of new radar to have greater combat aircraft upgrade. Let us look at the world’s major aircraft phased array radar it.

F-35′s APG-81 AESA radar front smaller and only has 1,200 transmit / receive modules, the other, APG-77 power (said to 16.4KW) to be much larger than the APG-81, so. F-22A aerial target radar detection range for the F-35 is far more than about 1 / 3. APG 81 has the advantage of a work on the model, its mapping synthetic aperture radar (SAR) / ground moving target indication (GMTI) / moving target indicator capability at sea-surface / air-sea mode and more than performance on APG a 77. APG-81 An important feature is to have the same time mapping synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and ground moving target indicator (GMTI) capacity, although its detection range against air targets far less than the F-22A, but a 81 APG target detection capability of the air is far stronger than the F / A 18 series and a series of F-16 fighter jets airborne pulse Doppler radar.

APG-81 in the work mode of the advantage is not absolute, it was reported: The United States is being upgraded by replacing radar radar modules and software approach, working on F-22A’s APG-77 radar performance upgrades, and soon after upgrade After the APG-77 radar performance under various operating modes will be more powerful, relatively speaking, APG-81 radar upgrade the performance space is very small, the first F-35 nose radome of the size of already small, and the APG -81 radar and EOTS system also share the already crowded head space, followed by the APG 81 radar by a power supply and cooling system of its limitations, so. Hard on the APG-81 radar further hardware upgrade.

In addition, F-35′s APG-81 radar, both in cost and weight of the F-22 is one half of their working life and is expected to reach 8,000 hours of life consistent with the aircraft, that is not in the whole life cycle replacement of the radar. In these areas, APG-81 radar obvious advantages, but the replacement of some of the radar module 77 after the APG a radar will significantly reduce weight and cost, work life expectancy.

the recent news from Pakistan said China will” emergency “provision of 50 aircraft to Pakistan JF-17 combat aircraft type These aircraft will be raised to the standard batch of JF-17BLOCK2, the combat capability of JF-17BLOCK1 than existing with a larger increase. JF-17BLOCK2 will be active PAF JF-17′s standard equipment.

information from the point of view, JF-17BLOCK2 will continue to use our on-board avionics systems and weapons, and continue to to increase the depth and breadth of the operational performance of the aircraft, and the PAF is also introduced the formation of ZDK-03 early warning aircraft, air combat more rigorous and complete system to enhance the autonomy of PAF combat capability.

JF-17 and China ZDK-03 form a complete operational system

; in the JF-17BLOCK2 the message, the outside world for the first time that the SD-10B active radar guided air to air missiles there, the Palestinian side that the SD-10B’s performance can be introduced with AIM-120 air to air missile compared, and in weight than the existing SD-10 to lighter, open air show information from the point of view, SD-10 air to air missiles of the maximum range of over 70 km, 50 km effective range, and the AIM-120A similar, the latter a maximum range of over 80 km, 55 km effective range, but the SD-10 should be greater than the size and weight of the AIM-120A, so that the JF-17 light fighter, the mount the SD- 10, larger impact on flight performance, in particular, mounted on the outer wing pylons, you need to reach launchers to adjust the focus of the new century, the introduction of F-16C/D-BLOCK52 PAF fighter aircraft from the United States, its top equipped with the AIM-120C5, the last century, taking into account the 90 Navy AIM-54 “Phoenix” retired long-range air to air missiles, and its follow-up of advanced air to air missile-AAAM program was terminated, the U.S. Navy long-range air strike capability targets dropped significantly, as a supplementary means of a quick U.S. Navy AIM-120 required to intercept distance of more than 40 miles (60 km) of aerial targets, this is the AIM-120C5, compared with the prototype missile, the missile is increased the weight of the missile engines, from 45 kg to 50 kg, while improving the grain of the surface, so that more regular and full combustion, increasing the time and the specific impulse fuel, so that the AIM-120C5 missile interceptor increases range from prototype about 10%, while increasing the seeker signal / data processing capability, increasing the number of warhead fragments, improve on the three generations of fighter jets destroy twin capability, the improved AIM-120C5 and AIM-120C7 continue to increase the rocket engine, its effective range has been further improved, from Pakistan’s point of view of information sources the performance of SD-10B may be in line toward the AIM-120C5, on the basis of improving the range and reduce the volume and weight, to improve the load adaptability, I believe that it is very important is the possibility of SD-10B is also being developed taking into account China’s demand for arms stealth fighter, stealth fighters to reduce the RCS, airborne weapons are generally placed above the tank shells, bombs in order to narrow mounted inside the tank weapons as much as possible, so it is necessary to reduce the air to air missile system, AIM-120C than the AIM-120A on the reduction of the tip, to improve the F-22′s bomb bay to mount the number, SD-10B may also be the ideas, with the range of increase, but also to keep up with the precision guidance system, SD-10B is said to adopt a surprisingly active / passive composite guidance system, and we are familiar with the different sources of interference when the guidance system, this master / reactive compound is to use passive guidance system to receive the other airborne radar signal, and then start using the former terminal guidance radar data to improve target detection, both work to improve the detection range of the seeker and anti-jamming ability, be pointed out SD-10B is not planning to use that air to air missile guidance system, AIM-120 is also used to have such a plan, but the technical difficulty of this seeker great need to address the broadband active / passive antenna and composite guidance radome, data fusion, and other key technologies, so I for SD-10B is equipped with reservations about such a guidance system, but we seem to speculate about the range of air to air missile development.

SD-10 JF-17 is the main combat arms

improved performance air to air missiles inevitably require the performance of airborne fire control radar to increase as, for air to air missile which provides target data required for the calculation of attack area, JF-17BLOCK2 with SD-10B-air missiles, which means that the aircraft should be equipped with China’s airborne radar, this is because an aircraft using certain weapons-related programs need to reside in the mission computer, or fire control computer, and these procedures are based on the preparation of the missile launch envelope, and missile launch envelope is the core of national secret airborne weapons, related to the work of the missile terminal guidance radar tracking distance and angle and the maximum tracking speed, time, energy work on a missile, engine thrust and working time, definitely not exposed, so JF -17BLOCK2 the mission computer can be sure that our products are basically, as I said before the airborne radar to the target, it will smooth the data and make forecasts, then the data to the mission computer for processing, by the latter to complete the manipulation of the aircraft command, missile attack area, the calculation of radar scanning parameters clearly will involve airborne radar parameters, these parameters are also confidential, so I thus believe that the JF-17BLOCK2 still used in China’s aviation electronic systems. Indeed JF-17BLOL01 quite advanced avionics systems, has more than existing third-generation combat aircraft, the third-generation combat aircraft avionics with the federated system, the system is the use of associated data bus, the system is the core mission computer, the task computer responsible for the detection system to obtain information, and then submitted to a unified display and control computer display, and JF-17 avionics system to control the computer as the core arms management, the most prominent feature is a combination of two computer tasks and control functions were , which reduces the complexity of the system, simplify the structure, reducing weight, improving the overall reliability of the avionics system. but also for future upgrades to lay a solid foundation.

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JF-17 with the new generation avionics system and glass cockpit

in Pakistan for the description of the aircraft radar, there is a word Readers may be surprised; “will be rotating disk with active phased array radar,” in many people’s impression of airborne phased array radar antenna should be fixed and why the JF-17BLOCK2 the AESA with this thing? I thought it might be to expand the scope of the radar scan, phased array radar has a drawback, as the scanning range increases, the reduction of radar Kongjing projection area, resulting in lower gain antenna and beam increases, thereby reducing the radar detection distance, so need to turn the antenna to extend the scope of the radar scan, we are familiar, such as F-22 fighter AESA, etc. The reason is fixed, because the power of these fighter AESA high, big angle scanning can tolerate certain gain losses, while the light aircraft as the radar power is limited, this loss can not be ignored, and the JF-17 the same level of JAS-39 fighter, equipped with the AESA will also use rotary mechanism is said to increase the range of the radar scan. There is also a mechanical scanning mechanism of airborne phased array radar is more familiar with the BARS passive phased array radar-PESA, the radar equipment in Indian Air Force Su-30MKI fighter jets above, some people often take the Su-30MKI China Air Force Su-30MKK comparison, BARS is a project must be mentioned, but the official website of NIIP is relatively conservative given the data; BARS electronic scanning angle is 40 degrees lower than conventional aircraft fire control radar scanning range of 60 degrees the need to further expand the machinery sector, the size of radar target detection range fighter aircraft in the 130-140 km, these data clearly BARS radar antenna, the 1-meter diameter and 5KW peak do not match, because I think the two are virtually identical The, BARS is PESA, compared with the AESA, the radar antenna is relatively simple, cost is also low, but the disadvantage is the complexity of radar feed, transmitter power need to go through circulation, the power distribution network to reach the array element, in which clearly have greater power loss, that is, even though the antenna and power BARS larger, but due to large losses, the antenna radiated energy is not high, so that when the scanning angle is large, this loss plus the antenna decline in the gain will reduce the radar detection performance, in this case, had to be supplemented by mechanical scanning mechanism, as heavy phased array antenna, the target data update rate is not too high, also causing the overall weight and radar systems increase in volume, BARS weight of more than 500 kilograms. This is why the Indian Air Force to upgrade the BARS to the root causes of AESA.

JAS-39 equipped with the AESA, pay attention to the radar antenna is movable, JF-17′s AESA estimated its close

according to China Electronics Import and Export Company information provided with the JF-17BLOCK1 current airborne radar is a type of KLJ-7 fire control radar, the radar antenna is about 600 mm in diameter, as the probe under distance of 80 km about 105 km on the apparent. Plane search distance of 120 km, while KLJ-7 also has a more complete ground (sea work) patterns, including high-precision synthetic aperture and ground moving target indication mode, but the indicators for the SD support effective longer range -10B is still a reluctance, particularly the goal of mechanical scanning radar update rate lower, less able to multi-target attack, while in the implementation of the open space model can not simultaneously empty model, which for the PAF at a disadvantage, it is very negative. If the dress AESA, you can use the latter the product of a larger power aperture radar to improve detection range, but may have to raise the level of JF-17 is limited by the power supply and cooling system capacity, but rely on quick AESA electronic scanning capabilities, JF-17 can focus the radar energy is concentrated mainly on the direction of the threat or to provide a detection range of the tracking accuracy, or to achieve fast detection and tracking of multiple targets, and mode of implementation of the time when the implementation of open space empty model, particularly is its good performance for multi-target tracking to provide reliable PAF multiple target attack capability, multi-target attack in the BVR process, airborne radar speed search mode after completion of the target detection, edge tracking mode into the side of the search target tracking, multiple target tracking algorithm after treatment by objective data, and then to the mission computer for data processing. From the experience of modern air combat, air combat of the war the next intersection is shorter and shorter time, the pilot in an attack as much as possible to attack multiple targets in order to improve the ability of targets. This is also the general facelift of modern fighter AESA and active radar guided air to air missile of the main reasons.

JF-17BLOCK2 F-10B may be equipped with the IRST

With modern electronic warfare systems development, in particular the development of radio frequency memory technology, airborne radar, if too much power, very easy to intercept and interfere with each other, even if the JF-17BLOCK2 equipped with AESA, you can use the burst and low-probability of intercept flashing mode, but still want to avoid excessive signal leakage, therefore, have a silent detection means to become a modern air combat is an important component of which is infrared search and tracking system, be pointed out that Pakistan had developed its own related systems, and equipped with PAF’s Mirage -3 / top 5 fighter aircraft, used for air and ground target detection, and navigation can be used for night flying at low altitude, but its performance such as lower detection range, I believe that China’s production of the aircraft will be equipped with airborne infrared search and tracking system – IRST, the system has replaced the Russian system has become -11 J of the Air Force’s main equipment, the system has detected distance, the characteristics of strong anti-interference ability, by virtue of IRST, PAF pilots can not open the case of the radar, still remain mastery of the target, thus avoiding the premature opening of the radar, exposing their position.

PAF equipment SAAB-2000″ Balance Beam “early warning

we know that the modern battlefield broad aspect, the detection system of any fighter can achieve coverage of theater, and more need for an external command guidance system provides objective support for the fighters for the attack The first step is to guide and air target detection radar network to detect, the determination of the relevant coordinates, and send fighters guided the plane to the array are favorable to launch attacks, to take the initiative in aerial combat, the traditional ground-air defense command guidance systems, though they have more display and control units, can guide a large number of fighters, but due to curvature of the Earth, restrictions on the lack of grasp of the low empty feeling, so PAF has introduced from Sweden and my SAAB-2000 “balance beam” and ZDK-03 early warning aircraft. The former side-looking radar by air to achieve the key threat to the direction of extension of alert, and the latter with a larger body and range, you can stay over a long time in key areas, to guide the implementation of early warning and control mission, the command can be under the authority of the superior direct command of combat fighters, PAF enhanced emergency response capacity, for the land strip, the limited strategic depth for Pakistan is very valuable, so it is imperative for the PAF to complete early warning aircraft and fighter jets, ground air defense command guidance systems join to form a joint network operations system, which is already equipped with a JF-17 tactical data link terminals, and ZDK-03 can join, but the view from the relevant message, JF-17 data link the present power seem more limited, less likely to LINK-4A with the United States rather, to support one-way or two-way data transfer and exchange, but the network can accommodate the small number of members of the exchange’s data include only the location of the intended target intercept point, fighters themselves location and status information, and JF-17BLOCK2 will achieve early warning aircraft and SAAB-2000 interconnection network to form a more perfect system, combat system, while its chain of transmission of data and more extensive information, data throughput is also higher, more integrated and more features.

domestic WMD-7 optical targeting pod

Pakistan’s national power as limited, PAF can not afford large-scale fleet, so it needs its own fighter aircraft to have more features to the smaller fleet to bear more combat missions, from the point of view Zhuhai Airshow, JF-17BLOCK1 WMD-7 fighter aircraft equipped with optical targeting pod, the pod of about 2.7 meters, diameter of 0.39 meters, weighs 280 kilograms, is equipped with a FLIR infrared imaging, CCD and laser irradiation / ranging system, you can day and night in all weather conditions to search for ground targets, identification and tracking, and track the target under irradiation of laser ranging and guide the laser-guided bombs and other precision-guided weapons general-purpose bombs or precision bombing of targets from the air show public information shows that, WMD-7 infrared device operating in middle infrared band (3-5 microns), this small band interference infrared background radiation, through atmospheric water gas and ability to detect high temperature conditions, and imaging devices and more simple and reliable, is the main national optical pod devices, infrared devices and has two CCD field of view; 4.3 * 5.8 degree wide field for 1.9 1.4 * search for the target and the narrow field of view used to track, identify goals, work in the 1.06 micron laser irradiation distance of more than 13 km, ranging from greater than 18 km, it can be speculated that infrared devices can detect more than 20 kilometers away from From these data, domestic WMD-7 pods roughly the skill level of the first generation of Israel Lite Ning pod performance rather than the latest Lite Ning or the United States Sniper XR pod that there are certain gaps, including infrared detection range, the role of distance laser devices, while the laser wavelength is 1.05 microns, but not eye-safe 1.57 microns, which will obviously affect the use of the pod, there is WMD-7 pod seems the lack of wide-field (24 * 17 degrees) and low-altitude night navigation capability, I think this may be the PAF JF-17 to perform mostly in close air support and attack missions shallow depth, does not perform low-altitude long-range strike missions, or the low-altitude radar penetration ability to do, such as adding terrain for radar tracking and avoid regression model, the pod from the simplified structure and reduce the cost point of view, PAF does not require the WMD-7 with navigation capability, in fact, in our Air Force , the information from the public point of view, such as the Zhuhai Air Show, the F-10S in the pod layout view, using a system similar to the U.S. Air Force LANTRIN dual pod system, which uses low-altitude navigation pod Blue Sky (equipped with a terrain following radar, wide-view FLIR system) to support the WMD-7 pods, be pointed out that in some data that the role of distance as a new generation of pod, you can cancel the original navigation pod, but the latest two from the current situation the use of a pod; U.S. Air Force is still with the AAQ-13 navigation pod to support low-Sniper XR pods, while France’s DAMOCLES pod also has a special wide-navigation FLIR device, which also shows the current dual pod system is still low penetration of States against long-range night pod of choice. It is worth mentioning that the JF-17 is equipped with laser-guided bombs, and no wind we are familiar with the header, so I guess should be used 500 kilograms of the latest laser-guided bombs, the missile uses proportional navigation guidance system, rather than the original speed track guidance system, proportional navigation guidance accuracy better way, and can overcome the influence of wind, can attack the target speed, is the new laser-guided bombs used to guide the general approach. Have more combat capability.

optical targeting pod While increasing the aircraft’s low altitude penetration capability, but limited its own limitations, and its standoff attack capability is poor, forward-looking infrared devices can not obtain the target distance, must have a laser device with, but the laser in the atmosphere close distance, although a new generation of optical laser device known as pods, such as DAMOCLES working distance can be over 40 kilometers, but the operation that is, to more than 10,000 meters altitude, the conditions for the disadvantage of the PAF, this is obviously unrealistic. JF-17 Therefore, the greater need Standoff Weapon System for the Indian Air Force combat capability in the case of increasing, especially in the Indian Air Force A-50EHI early warning aircraft enter service today have been able to hit the target, save themselves, from the point of view the air show, JF-17BLOCK1 Ray Stone in China has been able to mount -6 glide bomb, mine stone -6 500 kg in a normal installation of aerial bombs on the GPS / INS guidance components and a high aspect ratio come on the wing, on the wing than the advantages of exhibition is a large lift, induced drag is small, with better conditions in the subsonic lift-drag ratio, the distance run, according to information delivery from the mine stone -6 more than 60 km, can be in India outside the range of most air defense systems put in, as Ray Stone -6 is used in GPS / INS guidance system, so there is signal interference during the war and shielding the risks, but the JF-17′s KLJ -7 synthetic aperture radar will have high-precision drawing mode, you can detect ground targets, and then combine their laser inertial navigation system to obtain target coordinates, and then enter into the mine rock -6 to guidance systems, and JF-17BLOCK2 the AESA is in the mode of implementation of the land, while at the same time detection of air targets, to further enhance the aircraft in high threat combat environment.

H-4 in Pakistan Standoff Attack System

In addition to Ray Stone -6 outside, JF-17BLOCK2 will integrate the two types of self-developed standoff in Pakistan attack system, which is H2/H4 Standoff Standoff Attack attack system and Raytheon Systems, These two systems are the introduction of technology from South Africa, Pakistan, precision-guided attacks its own production system in which the design concept and Ray H2/H4 stone -6 similar system installed in the general-purpose bombs gliding wing and TV guidance system is made, H2′s running a distance of 60 km, and the installation of a booster rocket H-4 engine, with a range over 120 kilometers, H-2/H-4 are equipped with data link, to support the attack mode after launch lock, that is the first briefly to put the bomb target, and then the pilot use of the bomb television image seeker targeted return, and also the importance of targeting or attack the weak parts, and assessment of attack effects, and Raytheon Systems is an international standoff attack Popular standoff munitions tear cloth system, image released from the Palestinian side view, Raytheon Systems, non-circular cross section projectile body, a certain degree of stealth capability, hence, have a better use of space within the series, contribute to the modular shells space to accommodate the different munitions to deal with different objectives, the system used in large aspect ratio and jet engines under the wing, so far with the range, with Raytheon Systems, JF-17 can fight in the Indian border with Pakistan in depth objectives, and further greatly enhance the aircraft’s combat capability and survivability.

the above analysis we can see, JF-17 through its outstanding performance, PAF has received recognition, PAF has become an integral part of combat; through the installation of AESA and SD-10B air missiles, to improve the combat aircraft Su-30MKI fighter, while the introduction of the system Standoff Attack to further enhance the aircraft against ground targets in India, Pakistan JF-17 project in the sound and pragmatic attitude and India in LAC project Shanghao Nu far higher in sharp contrast; in the LCA fighter configuration does not standard MK1 circumstances, actually have to invest the development MCA fighters, all regardless of whether the strength of its own developed such aircraft.

JF-17 will become the main force of PAF fleet

J-10S
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Pakistan and China have been cooperating for a number of years on the JF-17/ FC-1 Thunder, a low-medium performance, low-cost aircraft that has attracted interest and orders from a number of 3rd World air forces. In November 2009, a long-rumored deal was announced for China’s Jian-10/ FC-20 4+ generation fighter, whose overall performance compares well with the F-16C/D Block 52 aircraft that Pakistan has ordered from the United States.

The J-10 has been reported as a derivative of the 1980s Israeli Lavi project, and reportedly incorporates an Israeli fly-by-wire control base that was transferred in the project’s early years. The change in relations that followed the Tienanmen Square massacre hurt the J-10 project badly, however, forcing the replacement of planned Western avionics and engines with Chinese and Russian equipment. The required redesign was very extensive, affected all areas of the airframe, and took over a decade, amounting to the development of a new aircraft. The first operational J-10 unit entered service with the PLAAF in July 2004.

China has reportedly ordered 100 J-10s to date. The initial Pakistani order is for 2 squadrons, but could expand as technical cooperation and orders increase. The $1+ billion sale represents the J-10′s first export order… but almost certainly not its last.

Chinese J-10
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PAKISTAN THINK TANK ARCHIVES:

Nov 11/09:Widespread reports surface that Pakistan has signed a $1.4 billion contract for 36 of CATIC’s Jian-10 fighters, which will be known as FC-20 in Pakistan. The deal is described as a preliminary agreement, and there are reports that Pakistan may eventually be interested in acquiring up to 150 of these aircraft. Retired Pakistani general Abdul Qayyum is qoted as saying that:

“The agreement should not simply be seen in the narrow context of Pakistan’s relations with China… There is a wider dimension. By sharing its advanced technology with Pakistan, China is … also saying to the world that its defence capability is growing rapidly.”

The UK’s Financial Times echoes this theme, noting that the $21.7 billionAviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) group is rapidly emerging as a big military goods exporter. The group is also involved in China’s civilian aircraft program, and gives only total revenue figures, but the Financial Times quotes industry sources who believe a recent remerger of 2 split-out groups late in 2008 was aimed at creating a bigger and internationally competitive player.

It is not clear whether Pakistan’s FC-20s will carry Russian Salyut AL-31FN turbofans (17,130/ 27,557 pounds dry/afterburner thrust) that are similar to the engines in many SU-27 family aircraft, or the larger Chinese WS-10A derivative (reportedly a lesser 16,523/ 24,729 pounds dry/afterburner thrust) developed by China’s AVIC Aviation Engine Institute and Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group. Pakistan’s Daily Times

March 7/09: The Associated Press of Pakistan reports that a contract for 42 co-produced JF-17/ FC-1 fighters has been signed in Islamabad by China’s CATIC and the Pakistani Air Force, financed by “seller’s credit.” Production capacity is listed at 15 aircraft in the first year, rising to 30 aircraft per year thereafter. Pakistan has been flying 8 aircraft to work out tactics, techniques, and procedures, and expects to stand up the first JF-17 squadron before the end of 2009. The aircraft will be based at Peshawar, alongside existing Chinese-made Q-5/A-5C “Fantan” fighters that are a hugely modified Chinese derivative of the MiG-19, and their accompanying JJ-6/FT-6 MiG-19 trainers.

The article adds a quote from Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mehmood Ahmed. He reiterates that cooperation on China’s canard-winged J-10/FC-20 is also progressing, with first deliveries to Pakistan expected in 2014-15. CATIC’s President MA Zhiping reportedly added that the first FC-20 aircraft built under that agreement would fly in 2009. APP | Pakistan’s The News.

March 29/07: Pakistan’s The News International references an interview that Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mehmood Ahmed gves to Jane’s:

“On other important projects with China, the Pakistani air chief also revealed that Pakistan is well advanced in negotiations with China on the possible acquisition of up to 40 J-10 fighters which are the most advanced fighter aircrafts so far produced by China. When Pakistan’s then President General Pervez Musharraf was given a detailed briefing on the J-10 during his last visit to China.

“We are serious in our discussions and, as air chief, I look forward to getting this programme (of the J-10) to a stage where we can contract this. I am looking at two squadrons of aircraft, anywhere between 32 and 40 platforms,” said the Air chief.”

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‘Pakistan-China friendship bedrock for economic cooperation’

BEIJING:

“The relationship between Pakistan and China is a geopolitical keystone for both countries, and the solidarity between them is unmatched by any relationship between two sovereign states,” Ambassador of Pakistan to China Masood Khan has said. He was delivering a keynote address at a roundtable on ‘Accelerating Sino-Pakistan Economic Partnership’.

“We have a good architecture for economic and trade cooperation. A Joint Economic Commission oversees progress in the implementation of projects under the Five Year Development Programme for Economic and Trade Cooperation. The first cycle of the programme was concluded last year and we have launched the second five year programme which will end in 2016,” Khan said.

“Under this plan, 36 projects valued at $14 billion; covering energy, transport, information and communications technologies, industrial, agricultural, health care and education sectors; have been identified,” he added. “The Economic Cooperation Group will monitor their implementation at the working level,” he said.

He pointed out that Pakistan and China have signed free trade agreements on goods, services and investment. Since 2008, the total volume of trade between the two countries has grown by 70%; and Pakistani exports to China increased two-fold from $1 billion to $2.2 billion during the same period.

Khan said the Chinese market will absorb more Pakistani products if Pakistan has more goods and services to export. He further said the Chinese government will send official purchase missions to Pakistan to enhance our exports, while Pakistani traders are attending China’s trade and investment expos and fairs in larger numbers.

The Ambassador said strong private Chinese enterprises were entering the Pakistani market to invest in the energy and infrastructure development sectors. He said that Pakistani businesses were also increasingly looking towards China.

He said Pakistani entrepreneurs and enterprises need to understand how Chinese state and non-state enterprises work. The Chinese corporate sector has unique characteristics, he explained, which have to be studied, comprehended and assimilated.

“To accelerate the Pakistan-China economic partnership, Pakistan has to think big with its feet on the ground. We in Pakistan need to develop competencies and adopt efficient implementation strategies. As we do that, China – our brother and partner – may step forward to help us develop these competencies,” he said. “Only then we will have a fuller interface between the two economies.”

On the occasion, China Development Research Foundation Chairman Wang Meng Kui said that the Sino-Pakistan Economic Partnership roundtable aimed at achieving tangible benefits for the economic development of both countries, and to further strengthen bilateral ties. He welcomed the presence of leading Pakistani businesses at the roundtable and regarded it an excellent opportunity to discuss concrete steps for enhancing cooperation.

Spread over five sessions, the roundtable focused on current status, issues and future potential of Pakistan-China trade and economic cooperation; gathering recommendations on accelerating mutual economic cooperation; looking into the feasibility of establishing a Pak-China Investment Fund; and cooperation in the fields of energy, mining, infrastructure, manufacturing, telecom and finance.

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Nuclear Submarine to be inducted in Pakistan’s navy by 2015: New-gen submarines: Pakistan steals a march on India

Posted by admin in Pakistan Naval Strategic Strike Force on December 22nd, 2012

Pakistan Submarine Capabilities

Hangor (Daphne) Submarine
Hashmat (Agosta 70) Submarine
Khalid (Agosta 90B) Submarine

The Pakistan Navy operates a fleet of five diesel-electric submarines and three MG110 miniature submarines (SSI).[1] Although these vessels are currently based at Karachi, it is possible that in the future some may also be based at Port Ormara.[2] The nucleus of the fleet comprises two Agosta-70 boats and three modern Agosta-90B submarines, all of Frenchdesign. Pakistan’s third Agosta-90B, the S 139 Hamza, was constructed indigenously and features the DCNS MESMA (Module d’EnergieSous-Marin Autonome) air-independent propulsion system (AIP). The two earlier Agosta-90B vessels will be retrofitted with the MESMA AIP propulsion system during their next major overhaul. [21]

Submarine Tables for Pakistan

The Agosta-90B Hamza (Khalid-class) was constructed at the Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works (KSEW).[3] Pakistani officials and media outlets extolled the accomplishment, treating the indigenous submarine’s 26 September 2008 commissioning as a significant step in the enhancement of the country’s naval capabilities vis-à-vis India.[4,5,6] It is the first conventional submarine in the Indian Ocean to feature the AIP system (in this case a 200KW liquid oxygen MESMA AIP), which allows the vessel to increase its submerged endurance for up to 3 weeks and improves its stealth characteristics.[13, 15, 16]

During the 1971 war between India and Pakistan, India effectively blockaded the port of Karachi, Pakistan’s only major harbor. In response, Islamabad was able to curtail India’s naval supremacy only through the use of its submarine force, which sank one Indian frigate.[7] Drawing on these experiences and the perceived threat posed by a larger Indian Navy, Pakistan has been continuously investing in its submarine force, within the constraints posed by its economy.

An effective sea-denial capability is vital to Pakistan. Foreign trade is increasingly important to the country’s economy, best illustrated by a trade to GDP ratio of 36.0 percent in 2007-2008.[8] Given that over 95 percent of this trade is seaborne, the Pakistan Navy and its submarine fleet is charged with protecting the country’s sea lanes of communication (SLOC).

Developments in India’s naval infrastructure and force posture significantly inform Pakistan’s own naval planning. In February 2001, the Pakistan Navy publicly considered the deployment of nuclear weapons aboard its submarines, arguing that it had to keep pace with developments in India.[9] Islamabad later rescinded its statement in January 2003, reaffirming Pakistan’s commitment to a “minimum credible deterrence.”[10] However, in the wake of India’s short-range Agni-I test that month, then Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Shahid Karimullah left the option open, saying that while the country had no plans to deploy nuclear weapons on their submarines, they would do so only if “forced to.”[11,12] But most experts agree that Pakistan is, at the very least, attempting to develop a sea-based version of the indigenously built nuclear capable ground-launched cruise missile ‘Babur’. [13] This missile is similar in design to the American Tomahawk and Russian KH-55 cruise missiles.[14]

In an attempt to further improve its naval capabilities, Pakistan has also been negotiating with Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) about the possible acquisition of three diesel-electric Type 214 submarines equipped with an AIP system based on fuel cell technology. Discussions regarding the deal have been taking place since 2004, but due to political developments in Pakistan as well as Germany, it has been repeatedly delayed. [17] In November 2009, the German Ambassador to Pakistan announced that a final decision would be made soon. [18] Parallel to the negotiations with TKMS, France has also been attempting to sell its Scorpene-class submarines to Pakistan. [19, 20]

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[1] “Chapter Seven: Central and South Asia Caribbean and Latin America”, The Military Balance 2009, International Institute of Strategic Studies, Routledge, 2009.
[2] Interview with Vice Adm. Clees van Duyvendijk, Commander in Chief RNN, “Navy Chiefs of Staff on MCM and minelaying,” Naval Forces, 2001, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 62-68; in ProQuest Information and Learning Company, http://proquest.umi.com.
[3] The Royal Institute of Naval Architects, Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works retrieved on 28 January 2010 from www.rina.org.uk.
[4] “Pakistan navy inducts new submarine”, Associated Press of Pakistan, 27 September 2008; in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, http://web.lexis-nexis.com.
[5] “India submarine ‘threatens peace'”, BBC News, 28 July 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk.
[6] “Pakistan on verge of selecting HDW submarine”, Jane’s Defence Weekly, 2 December 2008, www.janes.com.
[7] “Bangladeshi War of Independence: Indo-Pakistani War of 1971”, GlobalSecurity.Org, www.globalsecurity.org.
[8] “Economic Survey 2008-2009”, Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, www.finance.gov.pk.
[9] “Pakistan may install nuclear missiles on its subs”, Los Angeles Times, 23 February 2001, www.latimes.com.
[10] “Pakistan to retain minimum nuclear deterrence, PM says”, The News, 07 January 2003; in Lexis-Nexis, http://web.lexis-nexis.com.
[11] Catherine Philp, “India stokes the fires with new missile test”, The Times, 10 January 2003, www.timesonline.co.uk.
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New-gen submarines: Pakistan steals a march on India
The Tribune, India ^ | January 20,2011 | Ajay Banerjee

Posted on January 22, 2011 8:39:37 PM MST by sukhoi-30mki

New-gen submarines: Pakistan steals a march on India

Signs deal with China to co-produce six subs with the technology that India wants

These could tilt balance in favour of the Pak Navy in Arabian Sea

Ajay Banerjee/TNS

New Delhi, January 20 Even as India has announced its intent to have new generation diesel-electric submarines, Pakistan has gone ahead and signed a deal with long-standing ally China to produce submarines with the same technology that India wants.

The Pakistan Navy and China’s Ship Building Corporation signed a deal that got the seal of finality during the visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Pakistan last December. Indian security agencies in know of the matter have cautioned the government that this could tilt the balance in favour of the Pakistan Navy in the Arabian Sea.

India is looking to spend Rs 50,000 crore to acquire six new diesel-electric submarines that will be equipped with air-independent propulsion (AIP) technology to boost operational capabilities. Conventional diesel-electric submarines have to surface every couple of days for oxygen to recharge their batteries. A submarine using AIP technology can stay submerged for 12-15 days at a stretch, thus increasing its capacity to hunt down enemy warships without being detected. Nuclear powered submarines can stay underwater for even longer periods.

Under the latest agreement, China will co-produce six AIP technology submarines with Pakistan. Currently, the neighbouring navy has only one submarine — PNS Hamza. Pakistan is also looking at an AIP system produced by a French or German maker to fit on to the Chinese made hull of the vessel, said an official.

What is worrying for India is the known pace of Chinese construction. China could well provide three-four new generation AIP technology submarines to the neigbouring country within two years. The Chinese had supplied four frigates to the Pakistan Navy in 18 months flat! The two nations have also co-produced the single-engine J-17 fighter that was inducted into the Pakistan Air Force last summer.

For India, it could take upto five years to induct its first such submarine, as it will have to go through the process of trying out offers from various global bidders before ordering the vessels.

The Indian Navy has a bigger fleet in terms of number but it is dwindling and will be down to eight conventional diesel-electric vessels by 2015. By then, the first of the six under-construction Scorpene submarines will join the fleet followed by five more till 2018. The AIP technology vessels will follow later. Going by estimates, Pakistan would complete the induction of its fleet of AIP technology vessels by the time India starts off with its line of such submarines.

However, India will maintain its edge over Pakistan in case of nuclear-powered submarines. It hopes to induct the Akula-II Class attack submarine K-152 Nerpa on a 10-year lease from Russia in the next few weeks while the first indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant is expected to be inducted by early-2012.

Indian Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma has already declared that nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant would be on ‘deterrent patrol’ to provide the ability of a retaliatory ‘second strike’ if the country faces a nuclear attack.

What Worries India

The Chinese are known for their pace of construction and could provide three-four new generation submarines to Pakistan within two years.

It could take India upto five years to induct the first of its diesel-electric submarine.

The Indian Navy fleet is dwindling and will be down to eight conventional diesel-electric vessels by 2015.

Additional Reading: Indian Article (Tainted Viewpoint)

Pak plans to acquire 6 submarines from China

PTI

After inducting advance fighter jets from China, Pakistan plans to buy six state-of-the-art submarines from the neighbouring country in a bid to boost its under-sea warfare capabilities.

Islamabad is planning to buy six submarines outright with options of joint development of conventional submarines with China, The Express Tribunereported.

The newspaper did not mention the class of submarines being sought by Pakistan saying merely that Islamabad wanted advanced under-sea vessels with air independent propulsion (AIP) system, which would give them capabilities to stay submerged longer and operate noiselessly.

The Defence Ministry has asked the federal Cabinet to approve the purchase of Chinese submarines to counter “emerging threats” faced by Pakistan, the paper said.

Pakistan has a total of five active diesel electric submarines plus three midget submarines. While the three submarines are of German SSK class, Islamabad had recently inducted two French Agosta class ones.

With attempts to acquire AIP technology, Islamabad would be in race with New Delhi, which plans to arm its French Scorpene submarines with the technology but only by 2013.

Pakistan’s Defence Ministry informed the Cabinet that the country’s Navy is facing a “critical force imbalance” in terms of the number of submarines and ships in its fleet.

The “capability gap is widening exponentially with the passage of time”, the report said.

The Navy plans to acquire the six AIP conventional submarines that can operate in a “multi-threat environment under tropical conditions” and are capable of launching torpedoes and missiles, theBusiness Recorder daily quoted official documents as saying.

A protocol for joint development and co-production of submarines by the Pakistan Navy and China Shipbuilding and Offshore Corporation will be signed shortly after approval by the federal Cabinet, the paper said.

In view of “urgent naval requirements”, the issue of acquiring Chinese submarines was part of the talking points for President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit to China in 2009, media reports said.

The matter was also discussed during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Pakistan in December 2010, the reports said.

The Cabinet has been told that Naval Headquarters had pursued the purchase of submarines with Chinese authorities, who have assured Pakistan of their “firm support” for the submarine project.

Under the proposed protocol, four submarines will be constructed at a Chinese shipyard and the remaining two in Pakistan.

Co-development and production will include joint development, training of Pakistani personnel, upgrades of Pakistan Navy’s shipyard and other related aspects.

Pakistan is in the process of inducting 36 J-10 fighter aircraft from China in a deal worth more than $1.4 billion, with options open for induction of more similar aircraft.

Islamabad and Beijing are also collaborating to build an advanced fighter — JF-17 or ‘Thunder’.

Keywords: Pakistan Navy, under-sea vessels, air independent propulsion, SSK class, Scorpene

Pakistan Navy’s AMAN Excercise Participants

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakistan-navy/208190-navy-begins-seaspark-12-excercise.html#ixzz2FkQLPdxn

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Pakistan Navy Test-fires Land-Attack Missile

Posted by admin in Pakistan Naval Strategic Strike Force on December 22nd, 2012

Dec. 21, 2012 – 12:27PM

ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan Navy has test-fired a new land attack missile in the North Arabian Sea off the coast of Pakistan this week.

According to a Navy news release, the test included “firings of a variety of modern missiles including the maiden Land Attack Missile (LAM)” and the tests “demonstrated lethality, precision and efficacy” of the Navy’s weapon systems as well as the “high state of readiness and professionalism” of the Navy.

The release also stated the test “reaffirms credibility of deterrence at sea.”

A Navy spokesman confirmed “multiple platforms were engaged” in firing missiles. The firings took place on Dec. 19 and 21.

Though the Navy has a variety of anti-ship and surface-to-air missiles, the Navy would not confirm the identity of the land-attack missile when asked.

Mansoor Ahmed from Quaid-e-Azam University’s Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, who specializes in Pakistan’s national deterrent and delivery program, believes the missile is one of two varieties: either a land attack variant of the Chinese C-802/CSS-N-8 Saccade anti-ship missile in service with a variety of naval platforms; or a variant of the HATF-VII/Vengeance-VII Babur cruise missile.

“Coupled with a miniaturized plutonium warhead, a naval version of the several hundred kilometer-range Babur [land attack cruise missile] or a 120-kilometer range C-802 missile can potentially provide Pakistan with a reliable if not an assured second strike capability and will complete the third leg of Pakistan’s eventual triad-based credible minimum deterrent — of which the naval leg was missing until now,” he said.

A land-attack variant of the C-802 would be able to be fired from existing launchers aboard Pakistani ships.

Ahmed however pointed out that M. Irfan Burney — chairman of the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM), the research and development body that designed and manufactured the Babur cruise missile — witnessed the test firings. Ahmed believes that supports the notion that the missile was the Babur.

Burney was joined by Chief of Naval Staff Adm. Muhammad Asif Sandila, onboard the F-22P class frigate Zulfiquar.

The test comes seven months after Pakistan inaugurated the Naval Strategic Force Command. The Babur, once integrated with an operational naval command and control, “will help diversify the options available to counter India’s growing second strike capabilities at sea,” Ahmed said.

He said the Navy will be able to “strike critical counter-value and other strategic targets all along India’s coastline and maintain a semblance of strategic stability in the Arabian Sea.”

“Pakistan’s response in this field was necessary in the face of an exponential increase in Indian strategic capabilities, such as ballistic-missile defenses and the induction of SSBNs [ballistic-missile submarines] and planned $40 billion worth of naval weapons platform acquisitions over the next decade,” he added.

Ahmed said a “nuclear-tipped [land-attack cruise missile] is a readily available and affordable alternative for Pakistan instead of a dedicated SSBN.”

With an economy in chronically poor shape, the question of affordability and meeting the Navy’s expansion requirements in the face of a shortage of funds is a pressing concern.

However, after witnessing the test firings and voicing his appreciation of the operational preparedness of the fleet, Sandila also said the government was “cognizant of PN’s developmental needs and all out efforts are being made to address critical capability gaps.”

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