The PAF has 12 maritime strike Mirage 5s based near karachi if i am not wrong. These were upgraded in the ROSE upgrade program which possibly included air to air refueling. The fighters are capable of carrying Exocet missiles and other AshM. I am not sure about other Maritime strike assets of the Pakistani Military. The range of these fighters is IIRC 4000 kms and the role is offensive defense of PN by shore based assets
PN has also acquired Z-9 helos from China.....what are the capabilities of that.
I dont think so, some Z-9 helos are equipped with HJ-8 anti tank missiles but none of them are equipped with weapons to attack any surface ships. the navalized version can only do anti submarine roles
what is the weapon load and combat radius of the rose upgrade mirage-5?what about the f-16's are they equipped for the maritime strike role?
I doubt if the upgrade program enhanced the weapons load or the range (except in that an inflight refueling probe would have been installed) as most of the upgrades were in the avionics, display systems, night flying and fighting capabilities of the Mirage III and V fighters of the PAF. If the Mirage Vs are carrying lets say a couple of exocet AshMs then i would say the range would be around 800 kms, if its one missile then 1200-1300 kms plus the 180kms range of the missile. The PAF also has the Harpoon missiles which if operated by the same craft would also result in the same configs plus the 220kms range on the missile.
The harpoon can be loaded up on the Falcons and the PAF has it so am guessing they can be used for maritime role. There are atleast 4-6 sqdns in and around karachi whose primary task is protection of karachi and also to engage in a deny-the-sea kinda manouvers
It looks like the Raad can be used to target ships, however i feel that only a single missile can be carried by a Mirage V at a time and therefore the range should be around the same as that of a Mirage V when it carries 2 Exocets, however i would like to state that these are a layman's projections and as such with air 2 air refueling capability it is different story altogetherIf they load the Mirage Vs with Raad ACLM ,which has a range of approximately 350 km to target warships (stationary targets) then what will be their maximum range of the jetfighters.
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_armament_article12.html
(same source)
Are these an addition to the naval surveillance aircrafts or the Lockheed Martin has upgraded the Pakistani P3C oriens?
harpoons must be pretty good,india has also ordered them for its p-8i,doesnt pakistani navy also use the exocet and the as-15?is the exocet still in service?^^^ You forgot about Singapore as a harpoon user. Harpoons are in operational service on RSN vessels, F-16C/Ds, Fokker 50 MPAs (on external hard points) and eventually, they will be in service with the 24 F-15SGs (o/o) once they reach FOC.
Edit: I see you have added us and I further confirm that it is in service on both our F-16s and Fokker 50 MPAs (see US DoD link on a harpoon sale to Singapore in 1996). The RSAF has shown both of F-16s and Fokker 50 MPAs with harpoons in their open house to the Singapore public. Further, in Sept 2009 Air Forces Monthly article on the 425th FS (Singapore F-16 training detachment in the US), the article confirms that Singapore Viper drivers do train for a Maritime Strike role (see article in post #15 in another thread).
Unless you're willing to pay for integration & negotiate for permissions with the USA, you get Harpoon with P-8. It can come as part of the package.
yes it is a part of the package,though i dont know how many or what model,
I was there yesterday when it arrived. An interesting sight. In past one week I have seen almost everything PN has
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