What will become of the planes that JF-17 is replacing?

[SipahSalar]

Will they be sold for scrap metal? Will they be stored permanently in storage? Will the F-7's be broken down for spare parts for the F7-PG? Can we sell them to some African nation at a flyaway cost?

 

[cloud4000]

Will they be sold for scrap metal? Will they be stored permanently in storage? Will the F-7's be broken down for spare parts for the F7-PG? Can we sell them to some African nation at a flyaway cost?

All of the above are options. I don’t know if PAF ‘moth-balls’ older aircraft like USAF does.

 

[ziaulislam]

Will they be sold for scrap metal? Will they be stored permanently in storage? Will the F-7's be broken down for spare parts for the F7-PG? Can we sell them to some African nation at a flyaway cost?

Scrap/constantly being broken for spares ..some might be kept for a while in storage ...all of them are flying beyond their design hours

 

[Cuirassier]

It'll be something like this. Peshawar boneyard

 

[denel]

Will they be sold for scrap metal? Will they be stored permanently in storage? Will the F-7's be broken down for spare parts for the F7-PG? Can we sell them to some African nation at a flyaway cost?

Depending on condition, i suspect they will be kept in storage if needed to be called up as a backup reserve.

 

[MastanKhan]

Hi,

I think the F7P / PG's may be re-furbished and given to a friendly country in need---.

 

[Azadkashmir]

Turn them into accommodation for poor.

 

[SipahSalar]

It'll be something like this. Peshawar boneyardView attachment 457314

Where the hell is that? Is that an airfield we aren't using as an airbase? What a waste.

 

[Maxpane]

Good question . May be paf give them with the package of jf 17 to their customers

 

[Jinn Baba]

I'll take a couple if they are giving them away. I'll just sit in the cockpit like a little kid and pretend to fly them

 

[Lucky Breeze]

Where the hell is that? Is that an airfield we aren't using as an airbase? What a waste.

Its just a road for aircraft taxi not a runway.

 

[Shabi1]

For the first couple of years will likely be kept as reserve to be used as point defence fighters, while some will be cannibalized for spares and their airframes will be installed as monuments.

Would like PAF to turn few into supersonic UAVs for kamikaze missions or decoys like China has done. Israel used decoys to force opponents to reveal SAMs and expend missiles. Pakistani armed forces are secretive, who knows maybe already been done so.

You can use google translate to read on them.
http://www.ewmib.com/news.php?news_id=198&cate_id=3
According to this China uses converted supersonic drones to test Japanese air defenses.

 

[war&peace]

• Install them on squares and in museums.
• Give them as a gift to IAF so they have some decent airplane instead of samosa shaped Tejas

Turn them into accommodation for poor.

These are small fighter-jets...not buses..

 

[Kompromat]

They should turn them into drones. Use them as decoys to carry out Kamikaze attacks on enemy air defense network. The location of EADs will be exposed & painted - then you can destroy them with counter battery fire or stand off weapons. This way, we wouldn't have to risk our commissioned assets as much.

 

[war&peace]

They should turn them into drones. Use them as decoys to carry out Kamikaze attacks on enemy air defense network. The location of EADs will be exposed & painted - then you can destroy them with counter battery fire or stand off weapons. This way, we wouldn't have to risk our commissioned assets as much.

Good idea

So we need to develop an autopilot kit for them... I think there are quite a few organisation in Pakistan that can do this job