araz
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Thank you for your post. I agree with the gist of your post . I understand the need to have a credible defence. You say you are Ex Army so you have faced war like /War situations.
You have two considerations that you need to balance without which you cannot achieve the end that you require. Firstly a consensus on who we are and where we are going. This is the most important element in the national psyche as without a credible and achievable goal we will not get any where. We as a nation are divided and unruly. We have no sense of national identity and are divided into castes and sub nations and tribes. We neeed a unifying factor and a strict adherence to that aim to get any where. Whether Pakistan is enough to do that or we need a religious identity is something that needs to be debated. The people need to come out and say what they will accept ads a standard under which they will gather irrespective of their origins and affiliations. With the Exception of the Quaid and Liaquat Ali Khan we have had no one who could unite us under the banner of pakistan. So before we go any further we need to do this.
The debate of arms vs development will go on. I have a differing view point to yours. I believe that unless we have the education and a consolidated national development where the ordinary pakistani feels proud of himself and his country we will continue to suffer this faith. If we develop a concrete and sustainable industrial base and education base we will eventually have the resources for a credible defence which we seriously lack today. Our loan situation is so bad that we have to take loans to keep complying with the repayment schedule of these loans. SO if you have a pot of money should it go into defence primarily or should it go into development with a view to getting the infrastructure right for sustainable developement and therefore progress both in civil and military matters.
The defence of Pakistan is not based on its conventional strength alone. We need to have the strength of the conviction of our people to be bale to defend the country effectively. We are a nuclear power and the possibility of war is a bit more remote than what it used to be. So should we not concentrate on consolidated national economic development rathewr than buying arms which will only bankrupt us and yes we may have a name but we wont have a country left to defend.
This has remained my point of contention all along with detractors who have advocated a buying spree which is perhaps ill advised and un warranted and will cause more harm than do good.
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ly80 gives 15-18k m height depending on source more than enough for any threats out there, higher than that will be covered by paf planes and plane launch weapons like aim120 aim9 which can go I think above it as it's launched height plus
