Smart airdefense

[zpak]

Hello all. I found this hilarious article regarding the relationship between Venzuela and the US. However there are something that are relevant to Pakistan. Here's a quote from the article:


http://www.exile.ru/2006-October-06/venezuela_enchilada_of_evil.html

Right now, the technology is tilting toward the defense. Every year, shoulder-fired guided missiles get better and cheaper. And every year, fighter jets get more insanely expensive. What that really means is, the line between guided missile and manned aircraft is getting blurry except in one area: cost.

To make a plane a man can fly in, you need to spend really sick amounts of money, whereas missiles that can acquire that plane as a target, follow it through chaff and EW countermeasures and kill it, are relatively cheap (and getting cheaper). In fact, the missile has to win sooner or later, because it's not limited by all the stresses that can kill a human body. The missile can pull any g's you can pack propellant for; the pilot can't. To make the cockpit a livable place you need to turn it into the world's most expensive intensive-care unit, then build the armament around that. The missile has no veins to pop, no eyes to squeeze, no lungs to burst. It's not that much more expensive than a Discman, and it can turn that magnificent fighter jet into splatter video. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

Instead of trying to match India head to head in terms of aircraft via numbers and quality, why not just make sure our skies are a living hell for any aircraft that threatens our airspace. What is Pakistan's current inventory of anti-aircraft missiles. Is it say good enough to withstand a limited attack from the neighboring airforce?

 

[niaz]

Instead of trying to match India head to head in terms of aircraft via numbers and quality, why not just make sure our skies are a living hell for any aircraft that threatens our airspace. What is Pakistan's current inventory of anti-aircraft missiles. Is it say good enough to withstand a limited attack from the neighboring airforce?[/QUOTE]


SAMs can only shoot down enemy aircraft, cannot perform inderdiction and attack enemy formations inside enemy territory.

 

[KashifAsrar]

Any way anti-aircraft missiles are to be very potent for the defence. I think the AAM launched from UAVs should be the future of Air defence.
Kashif

 

[Thunder]

It's a ongoing game, today the SAM are better, tomorrow the planes will be better. A SAM can't go inside and destory the enemy now can it? Also, just because having tons of SAM can't assure that you won't be attacked by the airforce. If you don't have air superiourty, you lose the war