PAF Chief Visits Moscow's Aviation Industry; Observes Modern Fighter's Performance

ISLAMABAD (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23th july, 2016) : Chief of Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, has visited Air Base and aviation industrial complex in Moscow and monitored performance of modern fighter jet and other important military hardware.

During his visit to the Base, CAS was briefed about the role and tasks of Russian Air Force and was shown various aircraft on its inventory, PAF's press release issued here Saturday stated.

PAF Chief appreciated professionalism and operational capabilities of Russian Air Force. He highlighted the significance of having mutual training programs and conduct of Operational Exercises of the two Air Forces to benefit from each others experiences.

Later, he met aviation industry hierarchy of Russia for exploring multiple options with special regard to enhancing cooperation in technical fields. The Air Chief highlighted existing opportunities of cooperation between two aviation industries.

He showed keen interest to enhance mutual technical cooperation.

Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman called on Colonel General Victor Bondarev, Commander-in-Chief Russian Federation Aerospace Force.

Both the dignitaries remained together for some time and discussed matters of professional and mutual interest. During the meeting both the commanders agreed for increasing bilteral cooperation in particular and Aviation industry in general, and boosting aviation technology jointly.

Both Air Chiefs showed interest in bilateral operational exercises to benefit from each others experience. The PAF Chief highlighted the contributions of Pakistan Armed Forces and particularly PAF's role in operation Zarb-e-Azb.

Colonel General Victor Bondarev appreciated high standards of professionalism being set by PAF and highlighted the need learning from experiences. Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, is on an official visit to Russian Federation on the invitation of Russian Federation Aerospace Force.