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Pakistan bought a Z-9EC attack helicopter from China to compete with India’s Navy. These Harbin helicopters were posted on the frigates of the Zulfikar series of the Pakistani Navy. Not only this, Pakistan also added advanced systems like Pulse Compression radar, low frequency sonar, Doppler navigation system and radar alert receiver in these helicopters to create strategic balance with India. However, these Chinese helicopters destroyed all the expectations of Pakistan.
These Chinese helicopters have now become a headache for the field marshal Asim Munir of Pakistan. Now these helicopters are also not able to fly. The most serious problem of Z-9C is its tail rotor blade, which has revealed technical flaws. This part controls the direction of the helicopter and it can cause the entire aircraft to be united. In a stressful environment like war, this problem directly puts the life of the crew in danger.
How much Pakistan will trust Chinese goods?
According to the report of Defesa Online, the age of the main rotor blade is considered to be around 3000 hours, but many blades in the sea environment have eaten junk long ago, causing them to replace their deadline before the end. This questions the reliability of the rotor system. Anyway, how long can any Chinese goods be trusted?
Incidents of tire burst were also revealed
Many incidents of tire burst at the time of landing between 2018–2019 came to light. Break distribution valve was held responsible for this. This means that Pakistan’s anti -submarine helicopters are not safe not only in the air but also on the ground.
China promised to maintain helicopters
In 2006, when Pakistan bought these helicopters from China, it was promised to fulfill the responsibility of maintaining the helicopters from China, but the ground situation is different. Despite the special maintenance center built at the Mehran naval base, there are serious problems in repairing helicopters and supplies of parts. Apart from this, there are other reasons, due to which it is becoming difficult for Pakistan to keep these helicopters, such as-
- Spare parts are not supplied on time.
- Technical complications in repair processes.
- Limited availability of trained Chinese engineers
India has great attack helicopters
Pakistan saw the Z-9EC as a strategic card, but defense analysts believe that the failure of these helicopters has not had any significant impact on India’s strategic status. India already has better anti-submarine abilities, such as P-8i Poseidon aircraft and HAL DHRUV based ASW system.
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