Burraq UCAV & Shahpur UAV inducted in Pakistani arsenal.

[Imran Khan]

i have found something interested in image guys look dudoo fires missiles too

 

[Sugarcane]

Good - now start the party and bomb sh!t out of TTP & BLA rates

 

[farhan_9909]

thats a great news

this indeed is Burraq.

 

[Riseup]

i have found something interested in image guys look dudoo fires missiles too

Yes sure this is an UCAV.

 

[HRK]

'U.S. Disavows 2 Drone Strikes Over Pakistan'
By DECLAN WALSH| Published: March 4, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/world/asia/us-disavows-2-drone-strikes-over-pakistan.html

so these toys are tested in real operations ...............

 

[Sugarcane]

Yaar Shape achi nahi, kya daddu type ka drone banaya hai - Anyway, what are the capabilities

'U.S. Disavows 2 Drone Strikes Over Pakistan'
By DECLAN WALSH| Published: March 4, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/world/asia/us-disavows-2-drone-strikes-over-pakistan.html

so these toys are tested in real operations ...............

You want to say that real time testing already done?

 

[HRK]

Yaar Shape achi nahi, kya daddu type ka drone banaya hai - Anyway, what are the capabilities

You want to say that real time testing already done?

most probably

 

[araz]

We can obtain wing loong!

Yaara.
At this point in time we cant even get the lungi of the wing Loong that you mention. We need to wait for the economy to turm around before this talk of lets get this or that makes any sense
Araz

 

[Hyde]

thats a great news

this indeed is Burraq.

You are a genius Sir!

It took me about 15 minutes posting the screen shots of both UAV's which I had print screened from the video and messed up during the uploading process.

You took only 2 seconds and copy pasted my links

Anyways, off topic so don't reply back to this post

 

[Hyde]

I am really glad to hear that.

Even if the drones are not very capable as compared to more advanced nations in the world, we have something to work on. We have used drones for surveillance for several years now and after we have the armed drones, it is only going to improve further.

Sooner or later, the range will be extended to many more hundreds, the payload will be raised from heavier to heavier and the cruise speed is only going to increase.

We have the base, now it's time to tweak around get the most out of it.

Moreover... When we developed our first drone, Nokia was the most popular mobile manufacturer in the world with black n white screens and no ability to install apps, view pictures and videos etc. After 10 years, you are living in different world.

The point is, after extensive experience of drones, there is a strong possibility that NESCOM has naturally evolved and made their own indigenous drone? We have always been in short of funds so it took 10 years after the introduction of first Made-in-Pakistan UAV.

 

[Kompromat]

CH-3 may have been the research vehicle, however the Burraq is larger and looks a lot different from the CH-3 and falco.

 

[A.Rafay]

Shahpur is smaller Than burraq and slim.

while Burraq looks like this but much fatter

 

[proka89]

Pakistan Inducts Armed UAVs

Pakistan today inducted into service two indigenous UAVs, one of which appears to be armed. The military has long sought the ability to strike targets more quickly after identification.
A press release by the military’s Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) media branch stated Pakistan had inducted its first fleet of “indigenously developed Strategic Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), namely Burraq and Shahpar UAV Systems” for the Army and the Air Force.

The ceremony was attended by the outgoing Army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani; and retired Lt. Gen. Khalid Ahmed Kidwai, director General Strategic Plans Division (SPD), which overseas all aspects of Pakistan’s national deterrent.

Kayani was quoted as saying the UAVs would “substantially enhance” the military’s real time target acquisition capabilities.

According to Mansoor Ahmed from Quaid-e-Azam University’s Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, who specializes in Pakistan’s national deterrent and delivery program, the presence of Kidwai does not mean the UAVs have any non-conventional application.

“The [National Engineering and Scientific Commission ] comes under SPD, so he would be there,” he said.

NESCOM is a civilian run research-and-development organization that has designed a number of defense systems for the Pakistani military, including the Babur cruise and Shaheen ballistic missiles.

While the press release provided no other information, an accompanying photograph showed a model of a canard pusher UAV that appeared to be armed with two under-wing missiles.

Shahpar is a tactical canard pusher UAV that was developed by the Advance Engineering and Research Organisation, which is part of the state-owned Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS) conglomerate.

It was revealed to the public for the first time during IDEAS2012, Pakistan’s biannual defense exhibition, in November last year.

It was claimed to be an autonomous UAV with an endurance of seven hours and which could relay data in real time out to a range of 250 kilometers.

Observers have said the Burraq appears to be a Pakistani variant or development of the Chinese Rainbow CH-3 UCAV, but little else is known beyond speculation based on the CH-3’s specifications.

Former Pakistan Air Force pilot Kaiser Tufail said additional information will be difficult to obtain for now because sources will be “wary about leaking what is considered confidential stuff.”

Reports that Pakistan was developing an armed UAV named Burraq date back to 2009. Analyst Usman Shabbir of the Pakistan Military Consortium think tank said he first became aware of the existence of the Burraq some years ago when it was still in the design stages with NESCOM.

The two may be related, but he believes Burraq is armed and Shahpar unarmed.

“Shahpar can carry about a 50-kilogram payload and has around eight hours endurance. Burraq, based on CH-3 specs, would carry around a 100-kilogram payload and 12 hours endurance,” he said.

The given payload of the CH-3 is a pair of AR-1 missiles, or a pair of FT-5 small diameter bombs.

The ability of Pakistan to field an armed UAV has great benefits when faced with time-sensitive targets, he said.

“It is important in a sense that it greatly cuts the gap from detection to shoot,” he said.

Adding, “Earlier, once you detected something and wanted it taken out you had to pass on the imagery to higher ups, who had to approve and allocate resources like aircraft and by the time the aircraft got there the bad guys were long gone. Now detect, make decision, shoot and go home — all in same loop.”

He does not believe there is any real significance in the systems being named for use with both the Army and the Air Force, however, as “both have been operating their own UAV squadrons for a while now.”

“The Army has been using German EMT Luna X-2000 and the British [Meggitt] Banshee UAVs, while PAF as we know has a lot of faith in the Italian [Selex] Falco,” he added.

The Luna was also ordered by the Pakistan Navy in June 2012.

 

[TOPGUN]

Awsome news.. need to see Burraq firing those ATG's on the terrorists.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

we use these force multipliers purely as recon UAVs; they are not armed

i can see development of hardpoints being implemented in the near future though