Pakistan Army exhibits anti-drone technology

[American Pakistani]

They should stop posting this picture with every news...this picture is quite old now & the newspapers post it with every article.

 

[SQ8]

What anti-drone technology. You've had anti-drone technology for the past 40 years with the first Sa-7s. Have to hand it to press and PR depts on much ado about nothing.

 

[Sinnerman108]

What anti-drone technology. You've had anti-drone technology for the past 40 years with the first Sa-7s. Have to hand it to press and PR depts on much ado about nothing.

@Oscar

What do you reckon was Gen Aziz doing at Bahawalpur Exercise ?

What there any symbolism involved ? or am I making too much of it ?

 

[Ayush]

so will this be used against the US drones?

 

[SBD-3]

SOURCE: PTI

During the “Azm-e-Nau 4 Exercise” at Bahawalpur in Punjab province yesterday, the army air defence demonstrated its anti-drone technology by successfully bringing down a drone by targeting it with the 35mm Oerlikon guns, The News daily said.

That's not a "technology". Army has used anti-aircraft guns to bring down a UAV. Oerlikon AA guns have been with PA for many year (i guess more than a decade). I have doubts that this "technology" is operationally deployable since the guns would have to be deployed in FATA and ideally in Taliban control areas to effectively work which is not only strategically but also logistically very challenging.

 

[TOPGUN]

Practice makes perfect , although shooting a real one still stands as the million dollar $ question.

 

[SBD-3]

Practice makes perfect , although shooting a real one still stands as the million dollar $ question.

Whats the purpose of this practice? I don't know why Pakistani are so stupid that they want to commit a potential act of war. Let us go a little while back and see how some countries dealt with this situation.
Case 1: US spy aircraft enters China.

On April 1, 2001, a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II interceptor fighter jet resulted in an international dispute between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, called the Hainan Island incident.

The EP-3 was operating about 70 miles (110 km) away from the PRC island province of Hainan, and about 100 miles (160 km) away from the Chinese military installation in the Paracel Islands, when it was intercepted by two J-8 fighters. A collision between the EP-3 and one of the J-8s caused the death of a PRC pilot, and the EP-3 was forced to make an emergency landing on Hainan. The 24 crew members were detained and interrogated by the Chinese authorities until a statement was delivered by United States government regarding the incident. The exact phrasing of this document was intentionally ambiguous and allowed both countries to save face while simultaneously defusing a potentially volatile situation between militarily strong regional states.
Hainan Island incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Chinese being in right to shoot the spy plane which killed one of their pilot, quietly forced-landed the plain and kept quite until the US herself admitted the incident. They also didn't make chest thumping. However, the aftermath indicates the moral high-ground achieved by Chinese gracefully

In addition to paying for the dismantling and shipping of the EP-3, the United States paid for the 11 days of food and lodging supplied by the Chinese government to the aircraft's crew, in the amount of $34,000.

They didn't even allowed the US to take the plane in one-piece, a symbolic gesture that shows resolve but also a goodwill gesture about the crew that Chinese didn't torture or treated them inhumanely.
Case 2: A US UAV forced land by Iran
A US RQ-170 was intercepted and forced landed by Iran. Iranians didn't shoot down the drone (which could implicate an act of war) but then released the video of captured drone. US as usual firstly denied the claims but then subsequently accepted the fact that indeed a US UAV was flying over Iran was forced landed by Iranians. Again, no bloodshed but a strong message sent to US.
Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So rather than "shooting" mantra, if Military is really so interested in sending a message to US, they have quite a lot of examples of doing it in a less dramatic way.

 

[ejaz007]

Whats the purpose of this practice? I don't know why Pakistani are so stupid that they want to commit a potential act of war. Let us go a little while back and see how some countries dealt with this situation.
Case 1: US spy aircraft enters China.

The Chinese being in right to shoot the spy plane which killed one of their pilot, quietly forced-landed the plain and kept quite until the US herself admitted the incident. They also didn't make chest thumping. However, the aftermath indicates the moral high-ground achieved by Chinese gracefully

They didn't even allowed the US to take the plane in one-piece, a symbolic gesture that shows resolve but also a goodwill gesture about the crew that Chinese didn't torture or treated them inhumanely.
Case 2: A US UAV forced land by Iran
A US RQ-170 was intercepted and forced landed by Iran. Iranians didn't shoot down the drone (which could implicate an act of war) but then released the video of captured drone. US as usual firstly denied the claims but then subsequently accepted the fact that indeed a US UAV was flying over Iran was forced landed by Iranians. Again, no bloodshed but a strong message sent to US.
Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So rather than "shooting" mantra, if Military is really so interested in sending a message to US, they have quite a lot of examples of doing it in a less dramatic way.

It is not an act of war to shoot down drones or for that matter any aircraft that violates our air space. It is the USA that is committing an act of war by violating and attacking inside Pakistan. We have legal right to shoot down drones.

 

[HariPrasad]

Congratulations!!!!

Now shoot down American drones which kills innocent people of your country.

 

[Sugarcane]

What technology? Have they used laser beam? If not than it's just shifting all blame from Kyani's shoulder and put civil government under pressure when in reality both are on same page.

 

[Hafizzz]

Pakistan Test Fires Missile to Take Down Drones : Just Security

Pakistan army shows its might by brining down drone during military exercise - Economic Times

It might have been easy to doubt the veracity of the Pakistan government’s public protestations against US drone strikes in light of secret agreements between the two governments over many years. Indeed, several commentators likened the situation to Kabuki theatre (e.g., here, here). A series of recent events, however, cast doubt on that explanation, including the recent drones report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Terrorism (see paras. 53-54) and a speech by the Pakistan government before the United Nations calling for a cessation of the strikes.

As Just Security reported in this morning’s News Roundup, the Pakistan military successfully test fired 35mm Oerlikon guns to take down a drone in Punjab province. Prime Minister Sharif and the Army Chief watched the military exercise first hand. And, media in Pakistan and India (here, here) linked this political stagecraft to the government’s expression of opposition to US drones.

 

[pathum1986]

from where these drone originate? US bases in afganistan?

 

[TOPGUN]

Whats the purpose of this practice? I don't know why Pakistani are so stupid that they want to commit a potential act of war. Let us go a little while back and see how some countries dealt with this situation.
Case 1: US spy aircraft enters China.

The Chinese being in right to shoot the spy plane which killed one of their pilot, quietly forced-landed the plain and kept quite until the US herself admitted the incident. They also didn't make chest thumping. However, the aftermath indicates the moral high-ground achieved by Chinese gracefully

They didn't even allowed the US to take the plane in one-piece, a symbolic gesture that shows resolve but also a goodwill gesture about the crew that Chinese didn't torture or treated them inhumanely.
Case 2: A US UAV forced land by Iran
A US RQ-170 was intercepted and forced landed by Iran. Iranians didn't shoot down the drone (which could implicate an act of war) but then released the video of captured drone. US as usual firstly denied the claims but then subsequently accepted the fact that indeed a US UAV was flying over Iran was forced landed by Iranians. Again, no bloodshed but a strong message sent to US.
Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So rather than "shooting" mantra, if Military is really so interested in sending a message to US, they have quite a lot of examples of doing it in a less dramatic way.

Pakistani's are not stupid boss... it's the gov and every other gov that has come in since Pakistan was made that is simply, practice makes perfect means in any action taken by PA armed forces in real time war is followed by training in any sec of the armed forces. Throw the gov out and put in ones with balls and ones that don't fill up their pockets $ and back stab their own nation and its people meanwhile all this doesn't mean that we do stop training our armed forces for anything and everything that we might be faced or forced upon in the near future you never know with the US.

 

[alibaz]

Aerial targets are normally depicted by using drones so nothing new here. Media guy added some spices to his news.

 

[BATMAN]

Wow this is obviously just for public consumption which is hilarious because anyone in Pakistan who knows any better would tell you that the technology to shoot down drones has always been there.

Are they really trying to pass this off as some new feat? @Aeronaut

Dude your friends, will refrain from commenting against army for few days.
They have a immediate issues at hand, to settle with madrassas of Pakistan.