Qatar In Talks To Purchase Russian Su-35 Fighter Aircraft: TASS

[The SC]

They were apparently some talks about the S-4000 system too.. but the problem is with the biggest US base in the middle east which happens to be in Qatar..!!!? Will the Russians take that big a risk with their best weapon systems..? That is very doubtful..

the S-400 that is..

 

[Mani2020]

Why they want Su-35???



They are on shopping spree of fighter jets, trying to get political leverage.



If true then bad news for India. Pakistan should ask Qatar to finance it's fighter aircrafts deal on soft loans.

Why do we still think that every defence related thing happening in some of the middle eastern countries has something to do with us!!!

We can only benefit from what we have instead of rumors and assumptions.. similar to ...oh saudi has bought EF-2000 so if india buys it we will certainly have advantage ... oh UAE is going for rafale so if india buys it we will have advantage ... oh Qatar might go for su-35 so we can learn capabilities....

What india has belongs to them but what we have are mere assumptions/hypothesis/rumors.. Why would these countries give you soft loan without any benefit of their own? Instead of asking every other nation for soft loans we should try to build our own economy...

World has moved on so do we need to... Long gone are the times when you used to have influence on some of these nations but to be honest now they have better relationship with india then us ... what do we have to offer them ? apart form burdening them ? ..

Nobody would hold your finger and take you along and in the process getting dragged in a sh!t hole we are in...!!!!

Even at some point in time China will start loosing its patience with Pakistan if we don't improve things and keep going the way we are... Signs are already there for the ones who have vision...

 

[Trango Towers]

Pakistani reserves and early discharges are being called up to goto Qatar. Anyone know why?

 

[Avicenna]

Pakistani reserves and early discharges are being called up to goto Qatar. Anyone know why?

What? Sources?

 

[Trango Towers]

What? Sources?

My friend has just been called up and offered 3 year in Qatar and he just a trooper

 

[Avicenna]

My friend has just been called up and offered 3 year in Qatar and he just a trooper

Interesting. I don't have a good feeling about the current state of geopolitics.

It almost feels like a calm before a storm.

 

[Gomig-21]

They just signed a contract for 28 NH90 multi-role helicopters.

 

[The SC]

My friend has just been called up and offered 3 year in Qatar and he just a trooper

It is much better for Qatar to have Pakistani troops than other foreigners.. Although just yesterday a big Iranian IRGC delegation has visited Qatar..

 

[Raider 21]

Where will they find all the pilots???? I read somewhere in this forum that that ex Pak pilots, now in service in Qatar, would be sent for getting training for Rafael....

They fly at Qatar as IPs with their academy but they will not be allowed to fly their fighters. Source: ex-PAF fighter pilot working at Qatar AF.

 

[Michael Corleone]

F-15
Mirage 2000
Eurofighter
Rafale
Su-35

What is Qatar up to!

will throw everything they got on saudi possibly

My friend has just been called up and offered 3 year in Qatar and he just a trooper

how do you see pakistan's role in the future, taking into account pakistanis might have to face each other on opposite sides in a hypothetical saudi- qatari conflict...!?

 

[Trango Towers]

will throw everything they got on saudi possibly


how do you see pakistan's role in the future, taking into account pakistanis might have to face each other on opposite sides in a hypothetical saudi- qatari conflict...!?

We should stay out....not our fight.
The arabs are very tribal. The world has moved on but the are stuck in a time long gone

 

[Michael Corleone]

We should stay out....not our fight.
The arabs are very tribal. The world has moved on but the are stuck in a time long gone

So would you say this Pakistani military member deployment is just a play along opportunity for self interest!? Milking the cow!?

 

[Trango Towers]

So would you say this Pakistani military member deployment is just a play along opportunity for self interest!? Milking the cow!?

probably

 

[Asian.Century]

Su-35 now,

And Qatar has like F-15, Mirage 2000, Euro fighter, & Rafael.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Su-35 now,

And Qatar has like F-15, Mirage 2000, Euro fighter, & Rafael.

Yet, less than 350.000 natives and no strategic or military purpose other than being a breakaway part of Saudi Arabia. Their most important function is hosting the largest US base geo-strategically and being blessed with the third largest (if I recall) gas reserves in the world. Are they going to invade KSA? Iran? Who else is in the neighborhood? Oh, I forgot Bahrain (which is de facto a Saudi Arabian province as it should have been always) and UAE and Oman. The only country that they could seriously damage is Bahrain but let us forget that such a war will never take place (locals have no hatred for each other rather the opposite, same people by large) and it would only be relevant if all the other neighboring countries suddenly disappeared tomorrow.

All those weapons will be futile and will serve the GCC and the wider Arab world (once again eventually) and never be used against KSA unless the Al-Thani regime goes completely bonkers.

will throw everything they got on saudi possibly


how do you see pakistan's role in the future, taking into account pakistanis might have to face each other on opposite sides in a hypothetical saudi- qatari conflict...!?

LOL.

You are talking as if a few 100 Pakistani advisers/retirees/soldiers matter at all even in a tiny state like Qatar when you have 1000's of actual Qatari soldiers and 10.000 + US soldiers running around and KSA next door with an army of almost 500.000 soldiers. Yeah, great logic.

We should stay out....not our fight.
The arabs are very tribal. The world has moved on but the are stuck in a time long gone

Tribal? What are you blabbering about? 99,9% of all the 500 million Arabs are "tribal" only in the sense that we are the people that can trace our ancestry the furthest back on average and being a member of an ancient Arab clan, tribe, family etc. is nothing more than the purpose of nobility in Europe. Just that such families in the Arab world might have more direct power (in fact they often have) but we should not dismiss the influence that the European nobility have to this day. One just need to visit the UK or Spain to witness this.

Being a member of clan is just a curiosity nowadays for most. The only exception might be Iraq and Yemen due to the strong affinity with tribes and clans there (similar in many other Arab states) but the difference is that those countries have been witnessing unrests for decades, making the central state weaker and giving non-state actors (for instance powerful clans and tribes) more influence in the day to day runnings of things locally

Anyway as a Pakistani tribalism should be familiar to you, at least if you are a Baloch or Pashtun. I believe that they are more tribal than the average Arab.