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most probably newly upgraded RBS-70 or newly acquired SPADA-2000
yes till now noone have shoot down any american drone in afghanistan till date
Spada 2000 shall most likely be used by the PAF. Correct me if I am wrong.
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I think you forget that in 2001 Taliban actualy did shot down a drone, i had seen the pictures of that drone in Karachi base news paper ZARB e MOMEN at that time, same picture posted by BLack Blood on page3yes till now noone have shoot down any american drone in afghanistan till date
This is stupid.
Lolz...the AAD have been warming its guns on 'drones' since long now, these drones (as the news called it) are small crafts that can fly at a very low altitude and being inexpensive they can be blown if one wants to have some actual taste of targeting.
These crafts are used 'in lieu' of actual fighters so that the gunner is given a close-to-real experience when it fires at it!
These 'drones' have nothing to do with RPVs or UCAVs...lolz... i thought sama news was a guud news channel, but it actually sucks!
Exactly
I think it has more to do with two things
1. A Message being sent to USA
2. PPP Government playing for local audience.
Apart from that, there is absolutely nothing worthwhile in shooting down a small prop powered air craft.
There is no msg in it. This is a standard firing practice, annually or bi-annually held, just like the news of COAS visiting Tilla firing range to witness winter or summer battle inoculation exercises, or when the Strategic Forces fire 2-3 missiles per year or so to test their readiness and get real live experience, or when PAF does its yearly live firing exercises at some firing ranges.
And drones have been used in such exercises way before when WoT started, its a standard practice around the world when live firing exercises are being held anywhere.
Discredited as nothing more than 'spray and pray' tactic. No one in radar engineering took the Serbians' claim seriously.
More Pictures
Remains of the AIM-9L seeker that has suspected to have downed the UAV.
Was taken out by AIM9L fired by PAF F16B.
Tail of UAV
According to Sir Muradk the pilot almost stalled his jet while trying to shot down the Indian Air Force UAV as it was flying way below the F-16 stall speed so it took a lot of hard work to keep it in sight, lock and shot it down.
No...They got lucky. Of all the tens of thousands sorties flown, why only two aircrafts, an F-16 and an F-117, got shot down? You read that correctly -- tens of thousands of sorties. And the F-117 was hardly the most advanced. It had no radar, only a GPS assisted INS for navigation and bombing. Its flight control system (FLCS) came from the F-16 along with many other systems from many other aircrafts. You got suckered into believing that the F-117 was the 'most advanced'.But sir they did managed to shoot down the most advanced Bomber in the World , that is for sure.
You must be joking. I have posted more than twice explanations on basic radar principles, how a radar signal behave on a surface, and why it was ludicrous that Zoltan Dani modified his Soviet radar to successfully detect, tracked and targeted an F-117. Do spent sometime to look up my explanations.Any reports or analysis done and posted?
No...They got lucky. Of all the tens of thousands sorties flown, why only two aircrafts, an F-16 and an F-117, got shot down? You read that correctly -- tens of thousands of sorties. And the F-117 was hardly the most advanced. It had no radar, only a GPS assisted INS for navigation and bombing. Its flight control system (FLCS) came from the F-16 along with many other systems from many other aircrafts. You got suckered into believing that the F-117 was the 'most advanced'.
You must be joking. I have posted more than twice explanations on basic radar principles, how a radar signal behave on a surface, and why it was ludicrous that Zoltan Dani modified his Soviet radar to successfully detect, tracked and targeted an F-117. Do spent sometime to look up my explanations.
Just to remind, PAF did shot down an Indian Israeli built UAV (Searcher I believe was the name) around Lahore with a US built A2A missile, i believe AIM-9 series was used.
So UAVs can be shot down with A2A WVR missiles.
I had specifically written predator drone, and there are no known instances of it being shot, too many fail safes.
As for the Israeli drone, it doesn't even compare.
The one that the Taliban claimed to have shot down had crashed as a result of a malfunction.