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I first wrote and published this as a single article. But owing to large amount of data collected afterwards, split it in to multiple sections listed below. So ORBAT of Pakistan Armed Forces is now a multi-part series with different articles for Army, Navy and Air Force. You can read Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT here […]
Name: Mushaf Airbase. IATA Code: BHW Type: Major Pakistan Air Force base and nuclear weapons storage site. Location: Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan. Coordinates: 32°02′34″N 72°40′43″E Comments: PAF base Mushaf in Sargodha, Punjab is one of more important military establishments for multiple reasons: It is Central air command of PAF. It also houses Combat Commanders School which has Skybolts flying Dassault Mirage […]
Name: Lora Lai. City: Lora Lai. Airport name: Lora Lai. IATA code: LRG Type: Airstrip and a few helipads. Location: Balochistan, Pakistan Coordinates: 30°21′50″N 68°36′54″E Comments: This seems to be a pretty nondescript patch of land with only a few interesting features. Runway length is 900 m, which makes it pretty unusable for most combat aircraft. There seems to […]
Name: Chandhar Airbase Type: Pakistan Air Force operated airfield, no civilian use. Location: Punjab, Pakistan. Coordinates: 32° 4’38.20″N 73°47’23.65″E Occupants: PAF Airstrip Length: 2.4 km Comments: There is very little information about Chandhar airbase available in open sources. It’s about 77 km away from international border and seems to be military installation for use only during war time […]
Name: Shamsi Airfield (Bhandari Airstrip) Type: Airstrip first leased to UAE for hunting wildlife, then to USA for military operations. Location: Washuk District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Coordinates: 27°50’51.00″N 65° 9’35.63″E Occupants: It was used by USA as a base for Predator drones from 2001 till 2011. Leased by UAE from 1992-2001. Now presumably controlled by Pakistan FC. Comments: Shamsi Airfield caught my […]
Name: Peshawar Airbase Type: Military airbase with an adjacent civilian airport. Location: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa., Pakistan. Coordinates: 33°59’57.74″N 71°30’53.90″E Occupants: No. 26 and 16 squadrons of PAF operating JF-17 fighters Peshawar is one of […]
Name: Sukkur Airport (IATA: SKZ, ICAO: OPSK) Type: FOB (Forward Operating Base) and a small domestic airport. Location: Sindh, Pakistan. Coordinates: 27°43′19″N 68°47′30″E Sukkur Airfield is a dual use airport, but has limited military traffic. It is very near to the Thar desert. The barrage […]
This is an index post for a project collecting Google Earth imagery of military installations around the world, specially those of China and Pakistan. This post will have the list of posts created with post tag Google Earth. Sukkur airfield, Sindh, Pakistan Peshawar Airbase, Khyber Phaktoonwa, Pakistan Shamsi Airbase, Pakistan Chandhar Airbase, Punjab, Pakistan Lora […]