UCAVS are best used for dealing with terrorists in the country. I'm talking about cross border raids via paf to hit those terror camps.
Can it become Pakistan's FSB?
They conduct their own operations. Were quite successful in busting AQ/ISIS networks with whatever resources were at their disposal. New Kahan usually has secessionist militants. The identity is purposefully not being shared. I believe that is due to the political sensitivity of the matter. The government does not want to advertise casualties of secessionist militants because it believes that would alienate fence-sitters and spur victimhood complex.
Isn't FSB the Russian secret service? CTD is more like the US department of homeland security. It is an institution that comes under the aegis of the Police Service of Pakistan. DHS isn't a policing force though. Our CTD is.
tbh, to bomb a country like Afghanistan, you really don't need jets. It's the willpower that's needed. And the ability to deal with the consequences that come after.
Afghanistan is a big country which is mountainous. I would prefer to use a jf17 with a high service ceiling to drop a few mk83 REK or the standard mk84 dumb bombs on some terrorists launch pads. Also you have the ability of not being ambushed. We've seen what the taliban did against the ANA and NATO troops. Ambush after ambush after ambush. How can you ambush a jet and its bomb.
Wouldn't want to risk a jet and it's pilot to cross into enemy territory and drop a bomb and make it back. Especially since drones can do it for cheap, and the only thing you'd loose is a machine, pilots are not easy to come by.
High altitude laser guided bombing. It renders all of their aa and manpads useless
Drones can do that, just need to fly above 25K feet, will then be out of reach of most MANPADs, even those on top of mountains.
Likewise, in piloted aircrafts engine failure or something along those lines can complicate otherwise an easy mission. Especially losing a pilot or leaving them stranded behind enemy lines.
By that logic there is no point to an airforce consisting of piloted aircraft. Engine failures aren't that common. They are pretty rare...
No, it's that you don't want to lose a pilot to an entity that doesn't recognize International Law, case in point the Jordanian F-16 pilot, whose plane crashed into ISIS territory, who was then beheaded. Whereas Abhinandan was returned safe and sound.
Understandable. But like I said. High altitude bombing would render their AA defenses useless. Fail rates for engines are very low.
