Both India and Pakistan have very powerful and well-equipped air forces
and in this episode I'm gonna give you a side-by-side look at these two air forces from their size their
Structure as well as you're going to be looking at some of the inventory that they have and more welcome everyone
My name is Leroy, Kenton
And this is FTD facts the channel where we share facts and information with you about the different countries cultures and people from all around
The world and a lot more of you have been requesting for us to do more videos about the military of different countries
So I decided to share some facts with you about Pakistan's Air Force and India's air force
And by the way, if you have not seen my video that shows a difference between the Indian Pakistan's military in general
I highly recommend that you watch it after this episode
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Let's start off with a general overview of their Air Forces. Then we're gonna get more into the juicy stuff
So first up looking at Pakistan the Pakistan's Air Force
Abbreviated as PA F is the seventh largest Air Force and the largest of all the Muslim
Countries the Pakistan Air Force has two main tasks
The first task is to provide aerial defense for Pakistan and the second is to provide air
Logistic support for the Pakistan Army, the pakistan air force was founded on August 14th
1947 when Pakistan was originally carved out of the Indian subcontinent
The British left the subcontinent after dividing it into two separate sovereign states
One being India one being Pakistan and then the Pakistan Air Force was born immediately afterwards now the e.r
headquarters is in Islamabad Pakistan and structurally the PAF is divided into
Commands a command is a subdivision of the Air Force that is assigned to a major role and reports to the air headquarters
There are five commands in total the first one being the northern air command or the NAC and its headquarters is in
Peshawar then there is central air command the CAC and that's in Lahore following that is a southern air command or the si si
Located in faisal karachi following that is the air defense command or the ADC and they're based in chalk lala
Rawalpindi and finally, we have the ear for Strategic Command or the AF SC and its headquarters is in
Islamabad, then there are the direct reporting units
So these units are subdivisions of the Air Force directly subordinate to the air
headquarters and they operate
independently of all five commands or any other field operation agency and these units are the PAF Academy the
PAF air War College
the air weapons complex
Pakistan aeronautical complex or the PA C and this is I'm gonna dive a little bit more into this
So the Pakistan aeronautical complex is located in Kamra in Atok
And it reports directly to the Ministry of Defense
They produce aircrafts and they provide maintenance to aircrafts and radar systems
Used by Pakistan's Air Force now surprisingly it also provides maintenance
Services to foreign countries and it's always interesting to me when I see countries working on other countries
Militaries like Oh, your fighter jet isn't stabilized. Well, let me fix that for you. Just don't
Hurt us, please
But you know what as much of a bad idea as it may appear to be these collaborations with other countries
Also can be beneficial for one. It brings in money to the Pakistani economy
And to when you're the one that another country is dependent on for a particular service, you know
you can use that as leverage if you ever need now the PA see often jointly works with Turkey and China, and it's
aircrafts have been exported to places like ATAR Saudi Arabia Nigeria and the
UAE now if you are interested in joining
Pakistan's Air Force the branches you can serve in are the general duties either as a pilot navigator or Air signaler?
There's air defense engineering logistics
information technology education
accounts legal meteorology administration and special duties and
medical so lots of options to choose from so now I want to move over into
India's air force so the indian air force
commonly called the IAF is ranked fourth in the world and its main objective is to defend the airspace of
India and conduct aerial warfare the indian air forces headquarters is in New Delhi India and was originally founded on October 8th
1932 the motto of the air force of India is
Touch the sky with glory and that line was taken from the 11th chapter of the bhagavad-gita
And that's where we see Lord Krishna saying these words to Arjuna during the great war of
Mahabharata Lord
Krishna shows his divine form to Arjuna and this divine form of the Lord
Siva is reaching in the sky with glory and it invokes fear and the loss of self-control in the mind of Arjuna
So similarly the Indian Air Force's seeks to overwhelm its enemies using their air power
So there's a lot that goes
into their motto and they do their best to really
Stick to that like they do not play around in this Air Force
now the last decade of the 20th century saw a
phenomenal change in the structure of the Indian Air Force one of the most notable structural changes is we saw the
IAF inducting woman into service
The IAF has seven commands under whom our various stations and units located at various
places in India under their air headquarters
The seven commands are the western air command eastern air command central air command
Southwestern air command southern air command the training air command and finally the maintenance command as an officer in the Indian Air Force
depending on your qualifications
You can join one of the various branches the Air Force has three main branches which have some sub branches
So the first branch is the flying branch and they have three sub branches. That's the fighters
transports and helicopters
the second branch is the ground duty or the technical branch and it's sub branches are mechanical and
Electronics and the third and final branch is the ground duty. No technical branch and here we have sub branches of administration
accounts Logistics education and
Meteorology now before I continue just letting you know that we've made videos comparing the different fighter jets that are used in India and Pakistan's
Air Force as well as you've done videos about the military
Comparison on a whole so you can watch these videos in the playlist that I have
I'll put it in the card section of this episode
I'll also link to it down below in the video description
Box as well as I'll have an annotation to it at the end of this episode
I highly recommend so you can get all caught up with the information about India and Pakistan's military
Now want to look at the air power of these two nations. So first up with Pakistan's air power
they have a total aircraft strength of
1342 Pakistan's Air Force has a total of 348 fighter jets
438 attack aircrafts 51 transport aircrafts
499 trainer aircraft and their total helicopter strength is
322 and they have 55 attack helicopters the AFF DP 2019 or the Armed Forces
Development Program 2019 would oversee the modernization of Pakistan's Air Force from the year
2006 up until 2019 so there have been a lot of changes and upgrades to this Air Force and really the most capable
fighter jet in the Pakistan's air force from the years 1983 to
2007 has been the f-16 Fighting Falcon 40 of the f-16 a B block 15 models were delivered from
1983 to 1987 and 14 more were later delivered during the years of 2005 to
2008 now looking at the combat aircraft inventory in Pakistan's air force
We see that they have the Mirage 5 the Mirage 3
Chengdu j7
Jf-17 thunder the f-16 Fighting Falcon and four trainer aircraft
There's also the Mirage 5 and the Mirage 3
They also have the cessna t-37 the hongdo. Jl8 the Chengdu j7 the zhengyang
j6 the shinyang j5 the f-16 Fighting Falcon and the
aérospatiale alouette 3 and as you can probably tell by the names of some of these aircrafts Pakistan is a lot of
Collaborations with China now if you want to fly one of these planes you really got to come
Correct
Because a Pakistan here for it is very selective
When it comes to choosing the men and women to fly these crafts the selected candidates then proceed to the PAF
academy result fir now the criteria for applying as a pilot your nationality for both male and female must be
Pakistani at the time of application
You must be unmarried and your age must be between the ages of 16 and 22. The height requirement is
163 centimeters for both male as well as females now
There's a four year training of the PAF Academy result per now
Qualification is FSC with sixty percent marks in aggregate in any one of the following disciplines
pre-engineering pre-medical computer sciences and a level in physics math and English
There's also an intelligence test which is followed by an academic test in certain subjects such as math physics in English
Then there's a preliminary medical examination test, which is followed by an interview then from there
The shortlisted candidates are selected for the ISS B or the inter-service
selection board and the final selection of candidates will be through the general headquarters of the PAF and
Then when you complete your training you'll be approved to fly
Whew, so now
Let's look at India's air power. The total aircraft strength of the Indian Air Force is two thousand
Eighty two there is 520 fighter aircrafts
694 attack aircrafts 248 transport aircrafts
they also have three hundred sixty four training aircrafts and they're told a helicopter strength is
692 and they have 17 attack helicopters
the Indian Air Force has aircrafts and equipment from Russia the British French Israelis the US as well as
Course domestic Indian origins now when we look at the combat aircrafts in India's inventory. We see that they have
Mig-21 the mig-29 the hal tej as the Mirage 2000 Sukhoi
su-30 Dassault Raphael the sepecat jaguar and the mig-27
now in terms of trainer aircrafts
they have the bae hawk the hal kiran the mig-21 russia converging trainer the
mig-23 russia converging trainer the sepecat jaguar the mirage 2000 and the Pilatus pc-7
Now anyone with an Indian citizenship can apply to be an officer in the Air Force as long as they meet the eligibility?
Requirements there are four entry points to becoming an officer
So male applicants who are between the ages of 16 and 1/2 and 19 have to have completed high school graduation
and they can apply at the intermediate level male and female applicants who have
Graduated from the college completing a three-year course and are between the ages of 18 and 28
they can apply at the graduate level and
graduates of engineering colleges can apply at the engineering level if they're between the ages of 18 and
28 years old the age limit for the flying and ground duty branch is
23 years of age and for the technical branch
it's 28 years old after completing a master's degree both male and
Females between the ages of 18 and 28 years old can apply at the postgraduate level postgraduate applicants
Do not qualify for the flying branch now for the technical branch
The age limit is 28 years old and for the ground Duty branch
It's 25 years old and at the time of application
all
Applicants under the ages of 25 years old must be single and the IAF selects candidates for their offers our training from these
Applicants after training is complete. Then a candidate is commissioned as a flying officer and
That's what it takes. So there you have it
Those are the differences or some of the differences at least between India and Pakistan's Air Forces
And I mean, I haven't barely even got started. Like I haven't even touched the combat history of the air forces
I haven't even touched the specific functions of the aircraft or even future plans of the Air Force
So I probably will need to do another episode just to fit in every single thing that I want to share with you guys
But obviously this video have been long enough and either way, you know
We have some cool military videos that I'll link to you can follow me on social media
I'll have those links down below as well. And thanks for hanging out with me in this episode
Keep on learning. My name is Leroy Kenton, and I'll see you real soon
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