You just raised an interesting point. Pakistan has been used to fighting according to 6 to 1 odds, its very fighting culture is about fighting against stacked odds. While India for the last 7 decades has gotten used to fighting with 6 to 1 odds (in terms of firepower) in their favor. This has...
CSF payments were never 100% blocked for Pakistan, they've been used to pay for certain military trainings and for some defence items over the years. I would not take it as an automatic sign that AH-1Zs have been cleared for Pakistan. This is simply an extension of Congress's authority to make...
If the US even as much as not threaten maintenance of these aircraft (software and hardware), I’d consider it a huge favor. For now. But yes; otherwise, US will not sell any more offensive weaponry to Pakistan.
The reason is fairly simple. The planes landing in Pakistan need a support crew as well. It isn’t just the pilots getting trained there.
Isn’t there a program for upgrading ZDK03 radar to AESA as it’s alongside its mission systems. Thought we had a bird in China going through upgrades.
PDF’rs still haven’t come to terms with the new geopolitical alignment of the world.
Hence to constant need to go back to early 2000s era stick / carrot mode.
The cancer has already spread far and wide, amongst the educated and the ignorant. Every political and state official, has played a part in extending this curse upon Pakistan.
I completely agree but you have to keep in mind that we'd have been at war, had those missiles actually connected and resulted in the killing of 300 children, as was envisioned. The only reason our response in turn was measured because none of that happened. Now, would you actually want Pakistan...
I’m not sure how many times do I have to repeat the same thing, we made the same mistake at the time of Kargil of underestimating the way enemy opted to wage war.
What makes you believe that they’d have only responded with IAF? They were desperate enough to turn to unconventional weapons at...
AFAIK, there was no such decision. Even the MKI was targeted because it’d posed a threat to our package. Other than that, there was no such decision. The whole op ended in 30 odd minutes.
The entire op was to drop REK and H4 SOW and to protect our package, A2A kills were kind of icing on the...
My point is slightly different. Most Pakistanis wear their religion on their sleeves but that's where it ends. For some odd reason, they are fine with fighting wars or to talk about wars, but when it comes to welfare or duty towards masses, they are not only an abject failure but make excuses...