PAF engineers restore AWACS 'back to life' at half cost
Turkey has also sought help of Pakistan to manufacture fighter jets.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Kamra Aeronautical Complex has made the Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) aircraft operational on Thursday. 15 million dollars have been saved due to the indigenous repair to the aircraft. Feasibility study of Gwadar deep waters shipyard has also been completed, reported Dunya News.
Pakistani engineers have repaired the AWACS aircraft, which is now available for service once again. The aircraft had been damaged in an attack by terrorists during an attack on Kamra aeronautical complex.
According to American aircraft engineers, estimated repair cost of the aircraft has been halved. At the meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Defence Production, it was informed that the aircraft which had been damaged during Kamra terrorist attack has been made operational in ten months.
US aircraft maintenance engineers had estimated a cost of $ 30 million for the repair while the Pakistani engineers have repaired it in $15 million.
Defence Committee was informed that Pakistan can manufacture every kind of drone while progress is being made to indigenously produce Al-Khalid III tank. According to Navy officials, feasibility study of Gwadar deep water shipyard has been completed and only the approval from PM is required. The Committee was informed that Turkey has also sought help of Pakistan to manufacture fighter jets.
