PAF performs air to air refuelling during fighter jet deployment at BIAS 2022.

ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) performed Air to Air Refuelling during the deployment of JF-17 Thunder aircraft at Bahrain International Air Show (BIAS 2022).

Although the PAF has been successfully conducting inland air to air refuelling during operational missions and exercises, however, the capability was further consolidated by conducting air to air refuelling on international waters through PAF's own tanker aircraft during a long haul ferry mission, a PAF news release here received said.

The PAF deployed three of its JF-17 fighter jets at Bahrain International Air Show with an in-flight support of its mighty IL-78 tanker aircraft. During the non-stop flight of jets from an Operational Air Base to Bahrain and on their way back to the country, inflight refuelling was carried out by PAF JF-17...