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Name Branch Position Decorations Year of Retirement; 1 Hamid Rashid Randhawa GD(P) Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS), AHQ, Islamabad Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)
2021: Unknown Unknown: Contract signed between TAI and NESCOM in August 2021 for local production of Anka UCAVs with technology transfer to Pakistan. [49] Bayraktar TB2: Baykar Turkey MALE UCAV, UAV Strike, Reconnaissance: 2022: Unknown Unknown [50] [51] [52] Wing Loong II: Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group: China MALE UCAV, UAV Strike ...
The Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) was established on 15 August 1947 with the independence of Pakistan from British India. The RPAF began with a paper share allotment of 2,332 personnel, a fleet of 24 Tempest II fighter-bombers, 16 Hawker Typhoon fighters, two H.P.57 Halifax bombers, two Auster aircraft, twelve North American Harvard trainers and ten de Havilland Tiger Moth biplanes.
10 August 2021 PAF Base MM Alam: CAIG Wing Loong II: No. 64 Squadron ISO Northern Air Command No. 42 Wing March 2022 PAF Base Murid: Bayraktar TB2: No. 65 Squadron Knights Multi-role No. 42 Wing March 2023 PAF Base Murid: Bayraktar Akinci
The PAF Academy holds an All-Pakistan Declamation Competition, one of the biggest annual events. Some forty teams from major higher education institutes in Pakistan are invited to take part. The event takes place over four days during which a number of rounds are held. The PAF bears all the expenses of travel and accommodation of the teams. [38]
PAF Base Multan: Multan: PAF Base Risalewala: Faisalabad: PAF Base Chandhar: Gujranwala: PAF Base Vehari Vehari: PAF Base Rahimyar Khan: Rahimyar Khan: PAF Base Lahore: Lahore: PAF Base Bahawalpur: Bahawalpur: PAF Base Sukkur: Sukkur: Southern Air Command PAF Base Talhar Badin: PAF Base Sindhri Mirpur Khas: PAF Base Nawabshah: Shaheed ...
On 10 April 1959, while most of Pakistan was celebrating the holy day of Eid ul-Fitr, an Indian Canberra B(I)58 from the 106 Squadron entered Pakistani airspace on a photo reconnaissance mission. Two PAF F-86F Sabres (flown by Flt. Lt. M. N. Butt as the leader and Flt. Lt. M. Yunis as the wingman) from the No. 15 Squadron on Air Defence Alert ...
Two batteries were inducted into service in November 2022. One more battery was delivered in November 2024. Each battery has 3 Missile Firing Units. [21] [22] Mounted on board Tatra T815-7 truck chassis. [23] Anti-aircraft guns M39 cannon: United States Revolver cannon: towed anti-aircraft gun taken from the PAF's retired Northrop F-5 fighters ...