Pakistan successfully tests indigenous drone Burraq and Barq laser guided missile

[Kompromat]

Run talidogs run, a hundred of these are needed to keep killing the talidogs 24/7

 

[A1Kaid]

Pakistan successfully tests first combat drone

Published time: March 13, 2015 18:36

Pakistan has test-fired its first domestic combat drone with “impressive pinpoint accuracy.” Hailed by the country's army chief as a “great national achievement,” the new arsenal is aimed at boosting Pakistan’s ability to fight terrorism.

The drone, dubbed 'Burraq' in honor of the flying horse described in Islamic screeds, is capable of flying in all-weather conditions. Equipped with a Barq laser-guided missile, the drone showed “impressive pinpoint accuracy,” said Pakistan's chief of army staff, General Raheel Sharif.

Sharif attended Friday’s ceremony and witnessed the drone successfully hitting both static and moving targets.

Photo: Pakistan test drone strike

Speaking at the event, General Sharif said the newly developed weapon will increase the military’s capacity to effectively combat terrorism. He also commended the scientists and engineers who worked on the project.

“Let’s join hands to take Pakistan forward in respective fields,” Sharif said in his address.

Islamabad has in the past complained about US drone strikes targeting Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents near the country’s northwestern border with Afghanistan, saying that such military activity violates Pakistan’s territorial integrity. The CIA has carried out more than 400 strikes in Pakistan since 2004, according to the independent Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Pakistan’s military developed surveillance-capable drones back in November 2013, but arming them required overcoming significant technical hurdles.

Photo: Pakistan test first combat drone with laser-guided missile.



Pakistan successfully tests first combat drone — RT News


Congratulations to Pakistan defense industry and to the military. Welcome Burraq.

 

[WishLivePak]

We Indian's get joy to see our little neighbours get happy some times

PS: IT'S nothing pathbreaking advancement india already in possession of much sophisticated Drones from Israel
And even planning for buying more sophisticated drones from Americans.
So both are hands are filled

keyword: buying

we're making our own. Rmember when you guys used to develop and we'd buy? We slowed down. Now India is slowing down

Soon we will be exporting, considering we can make them cheaper them competitors. Good product for sahara countries.

 

[Militant Atheist]

Gz to our Pakistani bros. I hope to see cooperation between Pakistan and Iran in the military sector, I'm sure both countries have things to learn from each other.

 

[That Guy]

That's a Selex Galileo Falco. It's an Italian drone license produced in Pakistan, with the Pakistan Army being it's first and most successful customer. It was used to completely clear Swat of militant hideouts and ammunition dumps, during the Swat operation. In fact, it's success during this operation is one of the reasons why it other nations have bought it as well, including the UN who used it in African peacekeeping missions to track movement of civilians and combatants.

Selex ES Falco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[A1Kaid]

That's not Burraq, that is Falco.

 

[Devil Soul]

Pakistan military's new combat drone is 'great national achievement'

• Burraq unmanned aircraft capable of firing laser-guided missiles
• US refused to share technology despite heavy use of drones in Pakistan

Pakistan, the country that has been subjected to more secret US drone strikes than any other, has hailed the development of its first unmanned combat plane as a “great national achievement”.

In a significant breakthrough, the country’s army announced on Friday it had successfully test-fired a missile from an indigenously developed drone – a technical feat few nations have managed.

Army chief Raheel Sharif was among the engineers and scientists who witnessed the demonstration of a technology that has largely been the reserve of a few countries, such as the US and Israel.

The army said the drone, named Burraq after the flying horse of Islamic tradition, successfully hit stationary and moving targets with its Barq laser-guided missile with “impressive pinpoint accuracy”.

The system would be a “force multiplier in our anti-terror campaign”, said an army spokesman, Asim Bajwa.

Developing homemade drones has been a priority for Pakistan given the extensive use made of them since 2004 by the CIA to target terrorist groups in the restive north-west tribal belt.

The controversial weapons have proved irresistible given their ability to linger over their targets for extended periods of time, collect intelligence and deliver deadly missiles far more cheaply than conventional aircraft.

But the US supplies only its most trustworthy allies with the capability and has refused repeated requests from Pakistan, which has been attempting to join the club of countries with armed drones for at least two years.

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Although it already has surveillance drones, arming them requires numerous technical problems to be overcome.

During the ongoing “Operation Zarb-e-Azb” operation against militants in North Waziristan, a major sanctuary for militant groups bordering Afghanistan, the country has made extensive use of bombs dropped from fighter planes.

The army has repeatedly claimed no civilians were killed in the extensive air campaign, but the claim has been impossible to verify.

US drone attacks have been decried by many Pakistanis and activists around the world who claim innocent lives have been lost and entire civilian populations traumatised by the continued presence of drones.

Islamabad makes diplomatic protests against US drone strikes as a matter of routine, although there is considerable evidence Pakistan has given its consent to the strikes.

Although the military recognise the US drone campaign have been effective many believe they are an unacceptable infringement on the country’s sovereignty.

According to the independent Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the CIA has carried out 413 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004.

 

[waz]

Muahhahhahahahah

TaliCUNTS your days are numbered. Better enjoy the last few days you have left.

 

[Devil Soul]

Pakistan has released this and other images after testing its first indigenous armed drone named Burraq, and its laser-guided missile named Barq. (Courtesy of ISPR/Pakistan Military)
By Tim Craig March 13 at 5:02 PM
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The global proliferation of armed aerial drones took a major leap forward Friday when Pakistan’s military said it has successfully tested its own version and will soon deploy them against terrorists.

The drone, designated the Burraq, will be equipped with a laser-guided missile capable of striking with pinpoint accuracy in all types of weather, the military said. In the Koran, Burraq is the name of the white horse that took the Islamic prophet to heaven.

Gen. Raheel Sharif, Pakistan’s army chief of staff, witnessed the test and commended the country’s engineers and scientists for “untiring efforts to acquire state-of-the-art technology” that puts “Pakistan in a different league.”

“It’s a great national achievement and momentous occasion,” Sharif said.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is not related to the army chief, said the weapons would “add a new dimension to Pakistan’s defenses.”


Pakistani military video shows drone testing(0:38)
The Pakistani military said Friday that it has successfully tested its first armed drone and will begin using the weapons against terrorists operating inside the country’s borders. (Inter Services Public Relations/Pakistani Military)
Pakistan’s decision will likely accelerate the already supercharged race among nations to follow in the footsteps of the United States by deploying unmanned aircraft as an instrument of war.

According to the New America Foundation, there is evidence that eight other countries — the United States, South Africa, France, Nigeria, Britain, Iran, Israel and China — have already put weapons onto unmanned aircraft. The United States, Britain and Israel are the only three that have fired a missile from a drone during a military operation, the foundation said.

Dozens of other countries, including Pakistan’s archrival, India, are in the process of developing them, according to the foundation. And last month, the Obama administration said it would permit the export of armed drones to U.S. allies who request them on a “case-by-case basis.”

Peter W. Singer, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said Pakistan’s test confirms that the use of drones in warfare is here to stay.

“This is not the start of the race; it’s mile seven of the race,” said Singer, adding that India will probably also be able to quickly deploy an armed drone.

Still, he cautioned, the introduction of drones into Pakistan’s arsenal is not likely to alter the balance of power between the two nuclear-armed countries.


“We are not talking about technology that requires the Manhattan Project,” said Singer, referring to the U.S. effort to build the world’s first nuclear weapon during World War II. “The ability to fire a rocket off a drone is fundamentally different than a global operation where someone sitting in Nevada can fire from a plane 7,000 miles away.”


It was not immediately clear how quickly Pakistan plans to deploy its drones on the battlefield. But the military released a photo showing a dozen of them arrayed in a parking lot. Pakistan’s military said the drone was indigenously produced, but there have been recent reports that it was alsoseeking drone technology from China.

In November 2013, Pakistan announced that it had developed an unarmed drone. At the time, military leaders said the drone would be used only for surveillance and suggested that they had no plans to arm the craft.

But Pakistan’s military posture changed after the Pakistani Taliban attacked an army-run school in Peshawar in December, killing about 150 students and teachers. After that attack, the military stepped up its campaign against Taliban strongholds in the northwestern part of the country near the border with Afghanistan. On Friday, before it announced the drone test, Pakistan’s military said airstrikes had killed 48 militants in Pakistan’s tribal area near the Afghan border over the previous 24 hours.

Saad Muhammad, a retired brigadier general in the Pakistani army, said the availability of drones will make it far easier for the military to track and kill militants.

“Pakistan is going to be facing this asymmetrical warfare for years to come,” Muhammad said. “There are areas where the state still does not have complete control and the enemy comes into sight for a very little time. . . . It’s very costly to keep fighter planes in the air even for an hour.”

U.S. officials offered no immediate comment on Pakistan’s announcement. Since 2004, U.S drones have been targeting al-Qaeda and other Islamist militants who have found refuge in northwestern Pakistan. Those strikes have killed more than 2,700 people, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, which monitors violence in the region.

Pakistani leaders have repeatedly condemned those strikes, saying they have killed scores of civilians and violate the country’s sovereignty.

James L. Cavallaro, director of the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford University, said Pakistan’s decision to use drones domestically should not absolve it from questions about whether they are moral or a violation of international law.

“Weaponized drones facilitate killing by states,” Cavallaro said. “The weapon is one that raises important concerns about unbridled state power, the ease of killing and imbalance in the principles of risk involved in warfare.”

Pakistan’s drone test was the second major announcement this week from the country’s military about its growing arsenal. On Monday, the military said it had successfully tested a new medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.

The Shaheen-III missile has a range of 1,700 miles and is capable of carrying a warhead to any part of India as well as deep into the Middle East, including to Israel.

Shaiq Hussain in Islamabad and Craiq Whitlock in Washington contributed to this report.
Pakistan says it will deploy its own armed drone against terrorists - The Washington Post

 

[waz]

Now I'd like to congratulate all my fellow brothers and sisters on this thread, the good work of our tech folks and the military. This is something we dearly needed. We now have a weapon that can take the fight to the enemy, can hit them day or night and eliminate human risk.

Ya Allah khair Pakistan.

 

[Menace2Society]

Finally, I have been waiting for this for a long time. Congratulations.

Now lets get 20 of them into the skies at FATA and go hunting.

 

[VelocuR]

However, we should not forget great huge supports last 12 years from our old tireless horse - F-16 with our pilots

Thank you

 

[xxxKULxxx]

Great news brothers...

GRATZ !!!...

 

[SQ8]

Hi,

And that is nothing but the truth---.

And the whole truth so help me god.

I don't know about that. The drone looks like it's meant to be quick and agile, it certainly doesn't look like it's meant to loiter. Having said that, it's based on the Shahpar design, and the Shahpar supposedly has quite a bit of experience already, so the design should be fine for loitering, if required.

Either way, this was a much needed capability, though I doubt we'll see the Burraq in combat anytime soon, even if these drones do become operational. There is still major opposition in Pakistan regarding drones in general.

I also have to question the timing of this announcement. It seems like a political move, as the war seems to be intensifying, with negotiations in Afghanistan picking up steam, and the US withdrawal slowing down but still moving along. The army seems to be sending some sort of message, though I can't be 100% sure what it is. The timing just strikes me as odd, considering recent events.

The main focus is that war with India is a thing of the past, our nukes guarantee that. War on our own soil however is going to on for a much longer time. Much as with the Turks and PKK.. we have the entire western section of our country in a state of insurgency..which means that it is a long drawn conflict that will eat up resources unless cheaper alternatives to policing the region are found.. The various UAVs and drones, along with the less noticed "Mujahid" paramilitary forces and others are part of this endeavour.

 

[Thorough Pro]

A humble suggestion to the engineers, Why is the button/joystick panel so high from the table top? it will cause fatigue to the operators. Bring it down to the table top level where operators can rest their wrists.

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