Dear Sir, you are very respected senior Pakistani member and I was not expecting this from you.
Any way first of all IAF is not a circus airforce to showoff there aerobatic skills on the sky for the general public consumption and Indian armed force just showcase their capability not the might if you are comparing with the chinese or the former soviet grand parade. Technically India don't allow single engine fighter plane to fly past for the safety reason you understand what I means. Wearing helmet while driving bike is for the safety purpose and does not means he is scarred as compared to the person driving without helmet.
1 All these displays are meant for the public consumption to clap.
2. Many members here believed that wikipedia is not a good reliable source but the link of the Nescom Burraq of wikipedia pls have a look
Overview
Development
Main article:
Drone Attacks on Pakistan by the United States of America
Since 2004, the
United States (US) has been conducting controversial
strikes with its own UCAV systems in Pakistan's north-west territories, that target suspected militants in the region.
[6] For years, Pakistan had been pushing the US to allow it to acquire the
MQ-1 Predator, the main UCAV system the US uses in the strikes, but such requests were denied amid fear of technology proliferation.
[7] Burraq development is though to have primarily begun in 2009, with the contract being awarded to NESCOM in close coordination with the Pakistan Air Force.
[1]
Growing frustration over the US refusal and politicization of the US UCAV strikes in the country, the Burraq program is thought to have picked up its speed in secrecy.
[8] In 2012,
China offered to help by selling Pakistan armed drones it had developed, but questions were raised about the capabilities of the drones.
[8] The first few models of the Burraq were only capable of surveillance and intelligence gathering, and lacked any offensive combat capability. Some of these early models were used by the Pakistani military to track down militants. The first combat capable version of the Burraq was first publicly demonstrated in March 2015.
[7]
The Burraq is thought to be mostly influenced by the US Predator and the Chinese
CASC Rainbow CH-3.
About the Burraq program,
Popular Science noted: "with the Burraq, Pakistan can now do drone strikes on their own, without the United States."
[9] However Jane's claims that the origin of the UAV and missile is questionable.
[10]
Origin of name
The name, Burraq, comes from the legendary creature mentioned in
al-Isra, (
sura) in the
Qur'an.
[11] According to
Islamic traditions,
Buraq is a
steed, described as a creature from the heavens which carried
Muhammad from
Mecca to
Jerusalem, and back during the
Isra and Mi'raj (lit. "Night Journey"), which is the title of one of the chapters
al-Isra, (
sura) in the
Qur'an.
[12]
Use in military operations
Main article:
Operation Khyber-1
Before the Burraq was publicly unveiled for the first time, the Pakistani military reportedly conducted several strikes using the UCAV, as part of
Operation Khyber-1 military operations in the
Tirah Valley.
[13]
But I could not make anything from this.
A simple observation of picture tells me its just chinese CH-3 which is licensed produced. If you differ with this pls give some valid points or show me pakistan possess the capability to develop such system inhouse.