That was the time of Afghans.Though Durrani (or maybe the person was Abdali I do not remember correctly) was pushed back by sikhs.
Now is the time of Indian rise in Asia
Our time will also come.
I suppose boom of private corporate cultural in Turkey gave big push to its defence industry
While in India,There is not really a big boom of corporate cultural (at least in defence industry) but its slow but persistence approach has brought fruits.
Though lately Indian private sector is...
The encircled part is booster.
The thing i said is a fixed external turbojet engine.
1980s Russian Cruise Missiles used to have this engine configuration
Modern cruise missiles have engine inside the body.
So military wanted a scapegoat for its missions and bought Akinci &TB 2.
Was Mass production & further development of Shahpars not a way to go?
Since these would have been lot more cheaper scapegoats and way more benefits are associated with mass production of domestic products.
Ukraine had 50 TB2s and this is a large number actually.
They did very little damage to Russia
They could not stand against Russian Short Range defence systems &EW systems
And they will not last long against India either.
Though good against greece and PKK and that's what they were really...
UAVs are offensive weapons
They need to go all alone well inside enemy territory
So Imagine Akinci going all alone inside Indian territory!
The use you are suggesting "hunting down Indian tanks well inside Pak Territory" this role can be carried out by S2 but still Pak military opted for Akinci...
We better use Shahpar 2 B2
It's cheap to resupply and is expendable
Dollars spent on TB 2 and Akinci should have gone towards development of Loitering munitions and solar powered Pseudosatelites
You know TB2s have completely disappeared from Russio-Ukraine theatre and its b/c they are expensive for countries to constantly resupply them.
PAF has made very poor choice to go for TB2 and Akinci
Imagine having an asset with AESA radar,EW and what not and that moves at only 0.2Mach ; it's a...
MQ 9 Sea Guardians are best for ocean region
But what about in land border region
MQ 9s were helpless against fighter jets in Iraq
US tried to arm them with Sidewinder A2A Missiles but realized that this thing can't pull out even a 2-G manouver for self defence and the idea was abandoned
MQ 9s...
Sir for surveillance,you will need to put them at front line and these things are not capable of sustaining themselves on front lines
So we are still there.
Do they really worth of our Dollars?
I know it's really painful to see these wrong doings of Jernails but for now lets focus on...
The basic purpose of UAVs is to act as cheap yet Expendable assets
But these big items MQ 9 and Akinci basically defeat that basic purpose
of having UAVs
MQ 9 costs India 100Milliom USD and Akinci is also not a cheap asset.
Romania purchased simple TB2 drones with 16 Million USD per unit cost...
These same cities have been defended for last 70years and will be defended in future also
The point is to discuss tactics Ukrain undertook to effectively deploy their defence systems
Ukraine has deployed Patriot defence system and Russia miserably failed to counter it.
So what are really the tactics Ukrainians applied to successfully deploy and use Air Defence Systems
While on the other hand, Russians got hits on their most advanced defence systems.
So what was difference in...