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PAF test-fires extended range smart weapon

Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has today successfully test-fired indigenously developed (by Pakistani scientists & engineers) extended range smart weapon from JF-17 Thunder. 

The successful trial has provided JF-17 Thunder a very potent and assured day and night capability to engage a variety of targets with pinpoint accuracy.

Lauding the efforts of Pakistani scientists & engineers, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan congratulated the personnel on the achievement of this indigenous capability: “Pakistan is a peace-loving nation but if subjected to aggression by an adversary, we would respond with full force,” he held.

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.