Nigeria to buy 10 Super Mushshak from Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD: Nigeria will buy 10 Super Mushshak aircraft from Pakistan, highlighting flourishing direct for a indigenously built craft that several countries already work as a ‘primary trainer’.
A signing rite for a understanding was hold on Friday in Abuja, where Nigerian Air Vice Marshal Iya Ahmed Abdullahi and Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Chairman Air Marshal Arshad Malik sealed a contract, a matter released by a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said.
The agreement also includes operational training and technical support and assistance to a Nigerian Air Force (NAF). PAF pronounced it will settle this trickery in a shortest probable time.
“This agreement would not usually open new avenues for trade of aviation apparatus to unfamiliar countries though also assistance in generating income for a country,” a matter said. “The understanding serve strengthens PAC’s standing as a universe category aviation attention producing a supersonic JF-17 Thunder and Super Mushshak tutor aircraft,” it added.
The Super Mushshak, that is formed off a Swedish pattern though built underneath permit in Pakistan, is already in use with Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran and South Africa.
Talks are also during an modernized theatre with Qatar and Turkey for a smoothness of Super Mushshak, a comparison PAF central told The Express Tribune on condition of anonymity. He pronounced Super Mushshak is a ‘major success story’ of Pakistan and reflects a country’s intensity to turn one of a categorical exporters of such high-tech troops equipment.
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The PAF central combined that there are a few countries in a universe that trade aircraft. “Even India with a high claims has not nonetheless been means to furnish an aircraft that has been exported.”
Super Mushshak is an modernized various of a Mushshak simple trainer, that was also constructed by PAC. The PAF put adult a Super Mushshak for immobile as good as aerial arrangement in final year’s Dubai Air Show, where certain nations voiced seductiveness in a aircraft.
Pakistan is also aggressively selling a indigenously built state-of-the-art JF-17 Thunder warrior aircraft, that Nigeria is also reportedly meddlesome in buying. In Jul this year, NAF Chief of Staff Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar pronounced a force would acquire 3 JF-17s from Pakistan.
If a understanding is confirmed, Nigeria would be a initial nation to acquire a state-of-the-art warrior from Pakistan. However, there is no central acknowledgment if Pakistan is indeed provision a JF-17 jets to Nigeria.
Last year, Pakistan managed to secure a initial ever trade sequence for a JF-17 warrior jets during a International Paris Air Show.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 22nd, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1206082/export-success-nigeria-buy-10-super-mushshak-pakistan/