Fly the real front line
Real theatres · Real terrain · Real weather
JF-17s out of Masroor, J-10s over the Margalla Hills, a catapult shot into a monsoon squall. AIR COMMAND puts you over the true elevation of Pakistan and its neighbours, inside air-defence belts built from the published order of battle.
Built on the real thing
Pakistan is the one air force that flies American and Chinese hardware off the same ramp. That is the game's premise: an F-16 on one sortie, a J-10 on the next, and a threat picture that is taken from the map, not invented for it.
Real terrain
Real elevation and satellite imagery of Pakistan and its neighbours, so every ridge, valley and runway is where it is on the map.
A real air-defence belt
HQ-9, LY-80 and FM-90 on one side, S-400, Pechora and Akash on the other, at their surveyed positions, interrogating your transponder.
Physics, not dice
Radar cross-section, the notch, missile energy and flare-versus-tailpipe brightness. The same inputs always give the same answer.
A logbook that counts
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Squawk the code of the day, or your own belt kills you
Friendly batteries interrogate everything that comes home. Set Mode 4 before you roll, beam the round when the launch warning sounds, and put a ridge between you and the radar.
How the belt worksThe Margalla Hills are where the earth says they are
Real elevation and satellite imagery from Gwadar to the Karakoram. The ridge you hide behind and the valley you follow home are the real ones.
See the theatresLaunch off a deck that is moving
Nimitz, Enterprise and Ford-class decks riding a live sea state. Arm the catapult, run the engine up and go. Arrested recoveries with graded passes are next on the roadmap.
Carrier operations10 weather systems, from fog to monsoon
Layered cloud decks, gusts that veer with height, embedded cumulonimbus and lightning, and eleven times of day from deep night to blue hour.
Weather and timePick your airframe
JF-17 Block II
PAF's own fighter with a fixed refuelling probe and new avionics, painted as No. 16 Squadron 'Black Panthers'.
Chengdu J-10S
Two-seat canard delta with an AL-31FN. Sharp instantaneous pitch, a PL-15 on the rail and PAF roundels on the wing.
F-16 Block 70
The fastest roll on the ramp and a 9 g flight-control system. The Viper that anchors the West half of the PAF story.
F-22A Raptor (Low-poly)
A radar cross-section of a ten-thousandth of a square metre: an HQ-9 sees it at 17 km, not 175.
Su-27 Flanker
Mach 2.35 and Cobra-grade high-alpha pitch. The fastest airframe in the roster, and never in Pakistani markings.
AH-1W Super Cobra
A real rotor model: ground effect, translational lift and vortex ring state. Then a 20 mm turret, rockets and Hellfires.
Real ground to fight over
Karachi Streamed
Karachi on real elevation and satellite imagery, with a carrier in the Arabian Sea.
Islamabad Streamed
The capital theatre on real terrain: the Margalla Hills, the Potohar plateau and the belt that defends them.
Gilgit-Baltistan Streamed
The highest ground in the game. Nanga Parbat, the Indus gorge and Skardu, on real streamed elevation.
Your logbook, live on the web
Sign in here with the same Google account you fly with. Flight hours, landings and hours by type update on this page while you are still in the air.
Dev blog
Surviving a SAM belt: stealth, the notch, energy and flares
SAMs used to be a dice roll at 12–15% a cartridge. Now every defence is something the pilot does, and the same inputs always give the same answer. A field guide.
Google sign-in for a Unity desktop game, without the Firebase SDK
The Firebase Unity SDK's desktop build is for development only, and it has no desktop Google sign-in. Here is the RFC 8252 flow we shipped instead, in plain UnityWebRequest.
Sharp IMGUI on a 4K screen: why we stopped using GUI.matrix
Scaling Unity's immediate-mode GUI with one line of GUI.matrix makes every menu soft on Retina and 4K. How the AIR COMMAND front end lays out in 1080p units and still rasterises text at native size.
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