[🇵🇰-Airforce] PAF History

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[4MikeEcho]

This archive on Youtube from the USIS film from the 50s. Lots of excellent footage, including construction of Sargodha Air Base. Watching this I realized a lot of PAF documentries in the 70s/80s that PAF would show on PTV actually borrowed footage from this original US Info Service Film....

Good of them to have preserved some history.

 

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The fighting force at Sargodha was equipped with Starfighters, Mirages, F-6s and RT-33 aircraft before the 1971 war.

 

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Hawker Tempest II, of the Pakistan Air Force.​

This front-line aeroplane had the armour and the firepower, qualities which made the Tempest deadlier in the hands of the PAF, determined to resist to the last man.

It gave a new lease of life to a nascent Royal Pakistan Air Force and thus has acquired a significant place in the history of PAF.
Read more in "Remembering PAF’s First Fighter Tempest-II" Written by Franciszek Grabowski.

 

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In 1959, the United States handed over to Pakistan 25 B-57B aircraft removed from the armament of the disbanded 345th Bomber Group.

The external difference of these planes was the more pointed nose of the fuselage, in which the all-weather RB-1A Georgia Peach bomber system was installed. In the Pakistan Air Force, bombers went into service with the 7th and 8th squadrons, which took part in the bitter battles of the wars of 1965 and 1971.

During these wars, the Indian Air Force used English Electric Canberra as bombers and scouts, similarly the Pakistan Air Force used American-built Martin B-57s.

 

[ghazi]

Pakistan Air Force used 63 T-37, Including 24 T-37Bs and 39 T-37Cs. In 2008 20 T-37s were delivered from the U.S. On 28 October 2015, the Turkish Air Force gave the Pakistan Air Force 34 T-37Cs, including spares in an agreement between Turkey and Pakistan.