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Here is an article about how a predator crashed in Pakistan's FATA region.
How a Pakistani Village Found and Sold a Crashed American Drone | VICE News
I'll insert important excerpts from it instead of the whole article.
The crash:
"One day, late in 2007, the elder was relaxing in the courtyard of his home when he heard frenzied voices yelling that a drone was falling from the sky.
Looking up, he saw the aircraft moving unusually — jerking up and down across the horizon — until it smashed into a nearby mountain. He ran toward the crash site, but before he arrived, the elder's son and his friends — who had been hunting on the mountain — surrounded the drone and claimed ownership of it, in accordance with local rules."
It was also armed with hellfire missiles:
(I love the mention of the PO BOX. Excuse me sir, if the hellfire hits your house and does not explode for some reason, please return it to this address, Thank You. Govt of USA)
How the Pakistani Agencies acquired the drone:
Then a different tribal leader contacted the elder on behalf of the Pakistani government, claiming they had sent him to buy it. The two men negotiated a price of 10 million Pakistani rupees ($100,000), of which the elder would get 1 million rupees in commission.
After this, Pakistani officials arrived under the cover of darkness, put the drone in a truck, and took it to the army camp in Miranshah. The following day a helicopter transferred it to an unknown location.
Pakistan's own drone program:
Pakistan unveiled its domestically built surveillance drones in November 2013. It has also reportedly been trying to develop combat drones for many years.
A Taliban commander told me over the summer that recent attacks on them have been extremely precise. ( That is after the drones were introduced in 2013 )
Here's my take:
It took Pakistan 7 years to reverse engineer tomahawk missiles. Reverse engineering a drone should not be too hard. The only way i see Pakistan not contributing and reverse engineering it is if they wanted to acquire the drone as a show piece and put it in some dusty museum. Of course they wanted to dissect it, they wanted to open it up and they wanted to see how it works.
Even if the Predator was not completely reverse engineered, Pakistan certainly would have made invaluable input towards the development of CH-3 with it's access to the crashed drone.
The crash was in 2007, it has been 8 years. A sensible person should be able to put 2 and 2 together and come to the logical conclusion.
How a Pakistani Village Found and Sold a Crashed American Drone | VICE News
I'll insert important excerpts from it instead of the whole article.
The crash:
"One day, late in 2007, the elder was relaxing in the courtyard of his home when he heard frenzied voices yelling that a drone was falling from the sky.
Looking up, he saw the aircraft moving unusually — jerking up and down across the horizon — until it smashed into a nearby mountain. He ran toward the crash site, but before he arrived, the elder's son and his friends — who had been hunting on the mountain — surrounded the drone and claimed ownership of it, in accordance with local rules."
It was also armed with hellfire missiles:
(I love the mention of the PO BOX. Excuse me sir, if the hellfire hits your house and does not explode for some reason, please return it to this address, Thank You. Govt of USA)
How the Pakistani Agencies acquired the drone:
Then a different tribal leader contacted the elder on behalf of the Pakistani government, claiming they had sent him to buy it. The two men negotiated a price of 10 million Pakistani rupees ($100,000), of which the elder would get 1 million rupees in commission.
After this, Pakistani officials arrived under the cover of darkness, put the drone in a truck, and took it to the army camp in Miranshah. The following day a helicopter transferred it to an unknown location.
Pakistan's own drone program:
Pakistan unveiled its domestically built surveillance drones in November 2013. It has also reportedly been trying to develop combat drones for many years.
A Taliban commander told me over the summer that recent attacks on them have been extremely precise. ( That is after the drones were introduced in 2013 )
Here's my take:
It took Pakistan 7 years to reverse engineer tomahawk missiles. Reverse engineering a drone should not be too hard. The only way i see Pakistan not contributing and reverse engineering it is if they wanted to acquire the drone as a show piece and put it in some dusty museum. Of course they wanted to dissect it, they wanted to open it up and they wanted to see how it works.
Even if the Predator was not completely reverse engineered, Pakistan certainly would have made invaluable input towards the development of CH-3 with it's access to the crashed drone.
The crash was in 2007, it has been 8 years. A sensible person should be able to put 2 and 2 together and come to the logical conclusion.
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