The Pakistani F-16 jet that crashed today is the first in 11 years and has come after the United States sold a $125 million technical support and end-use monitoring package to Pakistan in July 2019.
今天墜毀的巴基斯坦F-16噴氣式飛機是11年來的第一架，此前美國於2019年7月向巴基斯坦出售了價值1.25億美元的技術支持和最終用途監測一攬子計劃。
“Pakistan had requested a continuation of technical support services; US Government and contractor technical and logistics support services to assist in the oversight of operations in support of the Pakistan Peace Drive advanced F-16 program. This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by protecting US technology through the continued presence of US personnel that provide 24/7 end-use monitoring,” a US Dod release had said last year.
“巴基斯坦要求繼續提供技術支持服務；美國政府和承包商提供技術和後勤支持服務，以協助監督支持巴基斯坦和平驅動高級F-16計劃的行動。這項擬議中的出售將通過提供24/7最終用戶監控的美國人員的持續存在來保護美國的技術，從而支持美國的外交政策和國家安全，“美國國防部去年發佈的一則消息稱。
The F-16s are generally considered ‘safe’ given the relatively low number of crashes compared to the total number of F-16s in operations- some 75 in Pakistan and over 4000 the world over.
F-16一般被認為是“安全”的，因為與F-16在行動中的總數相比，“墜機”的次數相對較少-巴基斯坦大約有75架，世界各地有4000多架。
Pakistan has lost 10 F-16 jets in crashes since 1982 when the first F-16s were inducted.
自1982年第一批F-16戰機投入使用以來，巴基斯坦已經在墜機中失去了10架F-16噴氣式飛機。
In comparison its Chinese origin and locally assembled JF-17 fighter jets have had 2 crashes out of 120 jets in the last 10 years.
相比之下，它源自中國的JF-17戰鬥機和當地組裝的JF-17戰鬥機在過去10年中有120架飛機中有2架墜毀。
Today’s crash took place during rehearsals for the Pakistan Day military parade over the capital of Islamabad with the loss of the pilot, Wing Commander Noman Akram.
今天的墜機事件發生在巴基斯坦首都伊斯蘭堡舉行的“巴基斯坦日”閱兵彩排期間，機長Noman Akram失去了飛行員。
According to Pakistani Air Force (PAF), he is considered an ace pilot having flown the PAF chief, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan earlier in a twin-seater F-16.
根據巴基斯坦空軍(PAF)的說法，他被認為是一位一流的飛行員，早些時候他駕駛的是雙座F-16飛機，曾駕駛過PAF首席空軍上將穆賈希德·安瓦爾·汗(Mujahid Anwar Khan)。
Reports have been appearing in the Pakistani media from time to time over the serviceability of the F-16s due to political differences between Islamabad and Washington.
由於伊斯蘭堡和華盛頓之間的政治分歧，巴基斯坦媒體不時出現關於F-16戰機適用性的報道。
In addition to its US-sourced F-16s, Islamabad has received some of these jets from Jordan.
除了來自美國的F-16戰機外，伊斯蘭堡還從約旦收到了一些這樣的噴氣式飛機。
It is unclear how many out of the confirmed 13 Jordanian jets have already been delivered.
目前還不清楚確認的13架約旦噴氣式飛機中有多少架已經交付。
In addition to today’s F-16 crash, it has so far lost two trainer aircraft and an ageing Mirage jet so far in 2020.
除了今天的F-16墜毀，到目前為止，到2020年為止，它已經失去了兩架教練機和一架老化的幻影噴氣式飛機。
The most modern F-16s with the PAF are the F-16 C/D Block 52 aircraft delivered in 2009-10.
擁有PAF的最現代的F-16戰機是2009-10年度交付的F-16 C/D“52”型飛機。
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