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[airbus101]

what is the name and role of the vehicle from 0:56 to 0:57 in the above video?
it looks too tall to be an APC.

some sort of a mobile command centre or just a lightly armoured transport to be used in support or COIN?
doesnt look like it can survive like a conventional APC would any suggestions?

To counter the IED/mine menace, HIT developed the Burraq, a four-wheel-drive MRAP first seen on state media briefly in February 2010.

Despite being denied the opportunity to publicly unveil the Burraq at the canceled IDEAS2010 show in December, HIT still refused to give any information. Still, Cloughley has praised it as "a step in the right direction." From his initial observations, Khan said, "it can accommodate at least eight or perhaps even 12 men," and probably weighs about 12 to 15 tons. He said the main benefit of the Burraq is its obvious V-shaped hull and raised compartment to protect the crew against mines and IEDs. He also said that, like the Mohafiz, it would provide "basic protection against 7.62mm armor-piercing bullets, though it may have the capacity to have additional armor fitted to withstand 14.5mm or even RPG-7 rounds."

He also observed that the Burraq used the same wheels as the Mohafiz, which perhaps indicates HIT tried to use as many existing subsystems from the smaller vehicle as possible to hurry the Burraq into service.

"It is certainly geared toward fighting in the rough terrain of northwest Pakistan," Cloughley said.

 

[fatman17]

KIA and Wounded since 2001

Army/FC

Shaheed;2821
Wounded;8765

 

[babararmy]

thanks

It works great for me.
Again Thanks very Much

 

[臺灣省委書記蔡英文]

good！only strong soldiers could take resoisibilities of the historical mission of protecting country for safe and providing people's peace life.巴铁万岁！

 

[S-A-B-E-R->]

guys in the video we see a MRAP shaped likr israli cat or somthing isnt it too low profile for mine resistance moste of the mraps r 2 to 3 feet above the ground?

 

[Jango]

KIA and Wounded since 2001

Army/FC

Shaheed;2821
Wounded;8765

and a stupid sky reporter asked cameron that what assurance you have that pakistan might not leak any information to taliban.....and gilani said that we are having our people killed and martyred and you say we give them intel.....so that they shoot our people???........these brits and americans are really in a state of paranoia!!

 

[Rafi]

and a stupid sky reporter asked cameron that what assurance you have that pakistan might not leak any information to taliban.....and gilani said that we are having our people killed and martyred and you say we give them intel.....so that they shoot our people???........these brits and americans are really in a state of paranoia!!

Wasn't sky, was bharti broadcasting company ie BBC

 

[fatman17]

ISI chief makes it to 2011 Time 100 list

Published: April 22, 2011

The first name on Time’s list is of Egyptian cyber activist Wael Ghonim.

Intelligence Chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha’s name appeared on aTime Magazine list released on Thursday on this year’s 100 most influential people.

The head of the Inter-Services Intelligence is the only Pakistani to have made it to the 2011 TIME 100.

Former CIA director Michael Hayden has written about Pasha in the magazine and said that the Lt General is a “Pakistani Patriot” and an American partner.

Within weeks of Lieut. General Ahmed Shuja Pasha’s becoming head of Pakistan’s top intelligence agency, ISI, in 2008, terrorist attacks in Mumbai seriously roiled already stressed US-Pakistani relations. Pasha, 59, has grown progressively more suspicious of US motives and staying power. The arrest of a US government contractor in Lahore has led to acrimony. And larger changes in Pakistan — the growth of fundamentalism, nationalism and anti-Americanism — have squeezed the space in which any ISI chief can cooperate with the US, Hayden wrote.

The first name on the magazine’s website is of Wael Ghonim. Ghonim, the Egyptian-born Google marketing executive first played a role in organising the opposition against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak through Facebook.

By emphasising that the regime would listen only when citizens exercised their right of peaceful demonstration and civil disobedience, Ghonim, helped initiate a call for a peaceful revolution, the magazine said.

Leader of Burma’s democracy movement and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi’s name appeared right after intelligence chief Pasha’s.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 22nd, 2011.

 

[priya899]

hi,

Nice post......thanks for sharing that....keep it up........

rgds,
Priya

 

[fatman17]

China markets new air-defence system


Christopher F Foss - Land Forces Editor

Karachi, Pakistan

China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) has started export marketing of a new self-propelled anti-aircraft gun/surface-to-air missile system (SPAAG/SAM) that was first revealed during the annual military parade in Beijing in October 1999.

This SPAAG/SAM, referred to as the Type 90-2, consists of a new full- tracked armoured chassis on the rear of which is a power-operated turret armed with four 25mm cannon and four 'fire-and-forget' SAMs. Mounted on top of the turret is the search radar, which has a maximum range of 11km.

In a typical target engagement, the 'fire-and-forget' SAM would be used to engage targets at longer ranges with the 25mm guns used to engage aircraft and helicopters at a range of up to 2,500m and an altitude of 2km.

The 25mm cannon, which are already in service with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in other applications, have a cyclic rate of fire of 600-800rds/min with about 1,000 rounds of 25mm ammunition carried.

The turret, which was displayed in China many years ago, does not have any SAMs installed. Mounted on the forward part is the optronics package that includes a TV tracking camera, infrared tracking camera and a laser range finder which feeds information to the onboard fire-control computer. The TV tracker has a maximum automatic tracking range of 6,000m while the infrared tracking camera has a maximum range of 5,000m.

The complete SPAAG/SAM has a crew of three - commander, gunner and driver - with a combat weight of 22.5 tonnes and a maximum operational range of 450km.

The vehicle is one element of a complete mobile air-defence system that also includes a battery command post (CP) on a similar chassis that can typically be used to control up to six or eight SPAAG/SAMs, battery test vehicle, power supply vehicle, ammunition re-supply vehicle and a training package.

The CP has a raised superstructure on the rear hull, on top of which is mounted the tracking radar with a maximum range of 45km and a maximum altitude of up to 4.5km. The radar feeds information to the data-processing system, which, in turn, allocates target information to the firing units. The radar has been developed by the China National Electronics Import and Export Corporation (CEIEC).

China has started marketing this self-propelled anti-air gun/surface-to-air missile system, which is armed with four 25mm cannon and four 'fire-and-forget' SAMS



the story line is Karachi, Pakistan - do we know if PA has inducted this SAM system?

 

[asad71]

A Journey from Scratch to Nuclear Power


The Rann of Kutch Conflict (April 1965)

India and Pakistan became engaged in a short but sharp conflict into Pakistani claimed-area in the Rann of Kutch in April 1965. Both armies had fully mobilised. Pa­kistan eventually proposed a ceasefire, which India accepted; an agreement was signed, and the forces disengaged. The Award by the Arbitration Tribunal vindicated Pakistan's position. India then shifted the centre of grav­ity of operations to the Northern Areas.

The 1965 War
After several ceasefire violations, India attacked across the international border form Sialkot to Sind sectors. The attacks were halt­ed on all fronts, and in a series of counter­attacks the Pakistan Army penetrated inside Indian territory capturing more territory than the Indian Army. The biggest tank battle since World War II was fought at Chawinda, inflicting heavy casual­ties. India eventually asked for a ceasefire, arranged by the UN on 23 September 1965.
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1. An excellent write-up no doubt. However, I am curious to know why no mention has been made of Op Gibraltar ( some are now calling it Gibraltar I) which led to the 1965 War? A lot of sacrifices were made by PA, particularly involved officers, in this daring episode of PA.

2. To refresh memory, GOC 12 Div, Murree, Maj Gen Akhtar Husain Malik was the overall commander of this effort. He was one of PA's brilliant generals and popular with officers and men alike. Most of all, he was a perfect gentleman. It was his plan and preparation on which Yahya was superimposed to make him the hero of the Akhnur/Chhamb/Jaurian gains. And a heart-broken Gen Akhtar Malik died soon thereafter at Ankara where he had been exiled as the ambassador.

3. Even today some veterans believe had Akhtar not been sidestepped the push into the Chicken’s Neck might have been more energetic. Akhtar had become a hero to his command – and that makes a lot of difference when the shootings start. A few kilometers more might have allowed Op Gibralter’s first phase to be achieved, that is infiltration of an Inf Bde through the Tain feature. The Mendhar – Rajauri loop, I believe. This might have made a lot of difference to the course of the War and its final outcome – particularly to the subjugated people of the Valley.

4. It is so simple; you don’t change horses in the middle of a race. Yahya had been an well established instructor and a good CGS. But he had been away from service with troops for too long to be entrusted with this blitzkrieg. He was an unknown factor to the troops he was going to command. Was it also a part of Bhutto’s plans to power we don’t know?

 

[Dazzler]

China markets new air-defence system


Christopher F Foss - Land Forces Editor

Karachi, Pakistan

China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) has started export marketing of a new self-propelled anti-aircraft gun/surface-to-air missile system (SPAAG/SAM) that was first revealed during the annual military parade in Beijing in October 1999.

This SPAAG/SAM, referred to as the Type 90-2, consists of a new full- tracked armoured chassis on the rear of which is a power-operated turret armed with four 25mm cannon and four 'fire-and-forget' SAMs. Mounted on top of the turret is the search radar, which has a maximum range of 11km.

In a typical target engagement, the 'fire-and-forget' SAM would be used to engage targets at longer ranges with the 25mm guns used to engage aircraft and helicopters at a range of up to 2,500m and an altitude of 2km.

The 25mm cannon, which are already in service with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in other applications, have a cyclic rate of fire of 600-800rds/min with about 1,000 rounds of 25mm ammunition carried.

The turret, which was displayed in China many years ago, does not have any SAMs installed. Mounted on the forward part is the optronics package that includes a TV tracking camera, infrared tracking camera and a laser range finder which feeds information to the onboard fire-control computer. The TV tracker has a maximum automatic tracking range of 6,000m while the infrared tracking camera has a maximum range of 5,000m.

The complete SPAAG/SAM has a crew of three - commander, gunner and driver - with a combat weight of 22.5 tonnes and a maximum operational range of 450km.

The vehicle is one element of a complete mobile air-defence system that also includes a battery command post (CP) on a similar chassis that can typically be used to control up to six or eight SPAAG/SAMs, battery test vehicle, power supply vehicle, ammunition re-supply vehicle and a training package.

The CP has a raised superstructure on the rear hull, on top of which is mounted the tracking radar with a maximum range of 45km and a maximum altitude of up to 4.5km. The radar feeds information to the data-processing system, which, in turn, allocates target information to the firing units. The radar has been developed by the China National Electronics Import and Export Corporation (CEIEC).

China has started marketing this self-propelled anti-air gun/surface-to-air missile system, which is armed with four 25mm cannon and four 'fire-and-forget' SAMS



the story line is Karachi, Pakistan - do we know if PA has inducted this SAM system?

Something similar to this i believe? Type 95 SPAAG/ SAM

 

[fatman17]

Something similar to this i believe? Type 95 SPAAG/ SAM

is it on a chinese chassis or the M-113A5 chassis?

 

[fatman17]

KIA and Wounded since 2001

Army/FC

Shaheed;2821
Wounded;8765

National Security Force to Militant Casualty Ratio in 2010

Militant KIA

JAN =308
FEB =323
MAR =341
APR =325
MAY =206
JUN =643
JUL =699
AUG =819
SEP =683
OCT =644
NOV =390
DEC =373
TOTAL =5754

Security Force's KIA

JAN =65
FEB =40
MAR =42
APR =32
MAY =31
JUN =49
JUL =64
AUG =69
SEP =63
OCT =80
NOV =59
DEC =47
TOTAL =641

KIA RATIO.9:1

Source: Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies Monthly Security Reports (Jan 2010 – Dec 2010)
Note: There are no further breakdowns for casualties, but it assumed most are as a result of PAKMIL operations in the FATA/KPK.

 

[fatman17]

National Security Force Casualties in 2010

Police
J =14
F =17
M =10
A =18
M =12
J =13
J =10
A =25
S =26
O =15
N =17
D =6

Other Paramilitary

J =6
F =3
M =0
A =1
M =4
J =9
J =6
A =0
S =0
O =3
N =14
D =6

Frontier Corps

J =42
F =18
M =13
A =13
M =11
J =13
J =25
A =16
S =14
O =38
N =9
D =11

Army

J =3
F =2
M =19
A =0
M =4
J =14
J =23
A =28
S =23
O =23
N =20
D =24

Source: Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies Monthly Security Reports (Jan 2010 – Dec 2010)
Note: There are no further breakdowns for casualties, but it assumed most are as a result of PAKMIL operations in the FATA/KPK