{"id":18489,"date":"2025-05-04T04:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T04:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=18489"},"modified":"2025-05-04T04:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T04:30:20","slug":"pakistan-air-force-showcases-advanced-chinese-weapons-as-tensions-escalate-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=18489","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Air Force showcases advanced Chinese weapons as tensions escalate with India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The PAF releases footage highlighting its \u2018potent\u2019 PL-15 missiles and a radar system described as a \u2018game-changer\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1020x680\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/05\/02\/d0ddef57-e521-4288-bb8b-30bcc8b3cb16_db0bb2e0.jpg?itok=jPCCsi5h&amp;v=1746168081\" alt=\"A Pakistani JF-17 Block III fighter armed with Chinese-made PL-15 missiles. Photo: Handout\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has released footage showing it has armed its combat aircraft with long-range Chinese missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The footage, published online on Tuesday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/south-asia\/article\/3308751\/us-hopes-india-avoids-wider-conflict-pakistan-over-kashmir-attack-vance?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comes amid spiralling tensions with India<\/a>&nbsp;following a terrorist attack in Kashmir last month that killed 26 people. New Delhi has blamed Pakistan for the incident, but Islamabad has denied any links to the attackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three-minute video showed warplanes, including the JF-17 fighter, armed with Chinese-made PL-15 missiles and described them as the \u201cPAF\u2019s potent punch\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PL-15, originally developed for the fifth-generation J-20 stealth fighter, is China\u2019s most advanced fighter-to-fighter missile and is reported to have an engagement range of 200km to 300km (125-185 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although other weapons that featured in the video were labelled as being the export version, the PAF did not say this was the case for the PL-15, hinting that it may be using the same version as the People\u2019s Liberation Army. If confirmed, this would be the first time a foreign military has been armed with that version, rather than the shorter-range export version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, military analysts also said Pakistan\u2019s biggest advantage was likely to lie in the Chinese-made active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar system fitted to the JF-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3308808\/pakistan-air-force-showcases-advanced-chinese-weapons-tensions-escalate-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3308808\/pakistan-air-force-showcases-advanced-chinese-weapons-tensions-escalate-india<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PAF releases footage highlighting its \u2018potent\u2019 PL-15 missiles and a radar system described as a \u2018game-changer\u2019 The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has released footage showing it has armed its combat aircraft with long-range Chinese missiles. The footage, published online on Tuesday&nbsp;comes amid spiralling tensions with India&nbsp;following a terrorist attack in Kashmir last month that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,17488,17492,105,17224,39,45,4496,17080,36,17494,17006,17493,17489],"class_list":["post-18489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-china","tag-chinese-weapons","tag-game-changer-2","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-iiojk","tag-india","tag-kashmir","tag-paf","tag-pahalgam","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-air-force-showcases-advanced-chinese-weapons-as-tensions-escalate-with-india","tag-pakistan-airforce","tag-potent-punch","tag-tension-escalates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18491,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18489\/revisions\/18491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}