For some reason I did not receive notification for both quote, I just find that out when I come here and check on the status.
It's great to hear from you sir , your absence is noted .. I almost forgot to tag you here ..
If you have time please do tell us about Current status of AH-Z1 ?
Well, I have had a very busy month, I can only get on the internet once every week, sometime none at all.
I've got a 4 days break after I was tasked to help with the investigation on Bourke Street Terror attack down at Melbourne with the Australian Federal Police. Just finish talking to people and witness and came back to Sydney on Monday and having a 4 days off.
Current Status of the AH-1Z I believe is still off site somewhere, pending the completion of transaction, I do not know what is delaying the hand over or whether or not they are already handed over to Pakistan, those are above my paygrade, but as my source said, those plane has left US quite some time ago, destination unknown.
But again, as I said, I wouldn't be too worry about it, because if and when the deal felt thru, you will hear about it from Pakistan, and you will also hear about the replacement for AH-1Z to be procurer, and as far as I know, no such program are currently issued with Pakistani government in case of the Viper deal felt thru, so either that mean the Viper deal is not going to fell thru, or Pakistani government is inept to replace the procurement. Which I tend to believe it is the first case.
I guess this is because that those vehicles are all the same without registration numbers ... normally in tribal areas almost everyone use jeeps or pickup trucks ... similar is the case with residence ... identification of exact house is impossible on screen as they are made of mud and looks same to an unknown person ...
As an Intel officer, I myself have used these drone and Satellite quite often, I can tell you this, not that every car is similar is the problem, but where we start looking for these car is the problem here. You need to know where to look before you can figure out what to look for. And when you know where to look, then what to look for usually is not a problem.
The question I ask is not that, but rather I don't understand the reasoning the other poster suggest. If the "informant" does not want to be retaliated, why would they risk their live and put tracker on the vehicle, they could have just tell the CIA or whatever where you can locate these vehicle and the CIA would do the rest. As an informant, you don't need to care or know how do I exactly locate and targeting these vehicle.
That is what I don't understand, plus we are not going to just give these "informant" tracker without preserving the integrity of targeting chain, otherwise how do we know who we are targeting? It may be the HVT we want but at the same time it could just be someone that "informant" have a grudge about or have a personal vendetta about. I mean if we give them tracker and attack without asking any question, we cannot be sure the right people were hit. The only way we can do that is to PID the target, hence making the whole "tracker/signal" thing redundant