Wajahat S Khan's Mahaz program from the frontlines of Shawal Valley.

[Umair Nawaz]

You are right. We are not known as a martial people but we were the ones who supported Pakistan very aggressively. 90%+ of the UP muslim vote went to Pakistan in 46-we vouched for Pakistan even then and the link has not been broken yet. I have no problems with anyone. Will merge as a pashtun if I have to.

Oho yara mazak kar raha tha. Ab main muhajiro ko thora cheer b nai sakta kya?

@asad71 @Joe Shearer Yr professional opinions?

Abt ops.

 

[pkd]

The person who posted the image on FB claims it's developed by NUST. ???

Pakistan's Home made GSR , Ground surveillance radar
GSR ,Ground surveillance radar is a class of radar sensors that monitor activity surrounding or on critical infrastructure areas such as airports,[1] seaports, military installations, national borders, refineries and other critical industry and the like. Such radars are characterized by their ability to detect movement at ground level of targets such as an individual walking or crawling towards a facility. Such radars typically have ranges of several hundred metres to over 10 kilometers.

Pakistan's Ministry of defense production launched a Research and development project for completely indigenous production of a GSR in collaboration with EME and other departments of NUST.
A total of 39 Million Rs were allocated for R&D. The preliminary/Theoretical work was completed within an year with 20+ PHD students working on the project. The project was so successful that AESA and PESA technologies seemed conceivable within Pakistan's own expertise and resources.
International Microwave journal IEEE received and published dozens of research papers about Radar technology from the students working on this project. See project 274 on NUST website
NESCOM was given the task of further developing the AESA , PESA related research which branched out of this project. 300 Million USD were allocated for Pakistan's own dedicated Electronics R&D labs near Islamabad which had to be a subsidiary of NESCOM.
Unfortunately the labs never materialized in its desired form. Much of the funds dedicated for the lab were diverted to other civilian projects by PPP Prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf.
A toned down NESCOM Electronics complex was completed in 2012,but was again a victim of financial corruption and could not do any mlre than manufacturing Motherboards for NRTC's Software defined radios.

The research on further development and building of a prototype GSR continued at NUST/EME
The project was started in 2006 and named "national Radar" or NR.

Over the years 3 versions were built and tested and in 2014 the Final prototype NR-V3 was accepted for production by Pakistan's Ministry of Defense production.

The Radar's Exact specifications are still undisclosed,but a learned guess is that the Radar has the capability of detecting Humans at 4Km range and Vehicles at 12Km range with an average accuracy of 96%.
The biggest challenge in any Ground surveillance radar is to identify target among clutter or reflections of trees,buildings and other ground objects. This was probably the biggest research project and many research papers were written by Pakistani PHD students on this subject during the project.
The final Algorithms was very robust and with accuracy of 96% or more.

All the components,including Antenna,transmitters,Receivers,Filters and software were designed,built and tested in Pakistan.
It is yet to be seen when the Radar will enter mass production and deployment on strategically important locations for area surveillance.

Some pictures of the project as below.

Antenna designs and prototypes.

I have Copied from another forum. Donn't know how accurate is this.

 

[TaimiKhan]

nice....thanks for sharing. I have a lot of respect for Wajahat S. Khan, i like his reporting style

im sure they are, they have good reason to fear i!

The Tanks capability to engage at long targets with accuracy and especially at night makes it a dreaded platform. If you watch the program, one of the soldiers said that we engage snipers with it too, which has left them with no sniper fire coming their way. And just look at the tank placing and the vast valley down below where the tank can see everything and fire upto 5-6KM range. In the power play prog during live filming you will see the tank engaging a white vehicle at stationary position in which as per the description the militants were loading stuff to move out to Afghanistan border.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

The Tanks capability to engage at long targets with accuracy and especially at night makes it a dreaded platform. If you watch the program, one of the soldiers said that we engage snipers with it too, which has left them with no sniper fire coming their way. And just look at the tank placing and the vast valley down below where the tank can see everything and fire upto 5-6KM range. In the power play prog during live filming you will see the tank engaging a white vehicle at stationary position in which as per the description the militants were loading stuff to move out to Afghanistan border.

Artillery not tank. It was way off target for a tank.

 

[Mrc]

Artillery not tank. It was way off target for a tank.

They were not targetting truck but building just next to where it was parked

 

[Umair Nawaz]

They were not targetting truck but building just next to where it was parked

at first i thought the same, but they had said that truck was target. It was the first test fire to see where it hits, then the arty observer which in this case was GOC Maj Gen Azhar Abbasi himself corrected the co-ordinates to give a precise fire. which wasnt shown.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

@Imran Khan Watch this, and listen carefully what Wajahat Saeed Khan says in the end of the both parts. Specially the second one!

 

[Imran Khan]

@Imran Khan Watch this, and listen carefully what Wajahat Saeed Khan says in the end of the both parts. Specially the second one!

ap hi bata do yaar

 

[Umair Nawaz]

ap hi bata do yaar

Trust me watch these two parts of this program from shawal.

 

[TheNoob]

"Ye firing ki awaz he?"
"Han ye chalta rehta he idher"

I lost it loooooool

 

[LeGenD]

I really enjoyed Wajahat Syed Khans series we are soldiers. Very interesting stuff.

I watched it as well. Good program.

However, an episode in which a Pakistani army tank instructor was interviewed by Mr. Wajahat, gave me headache. Seriously, I was not expecting such naivety from a Pakistan army professional.

 

[ghazi52]

Nice video.........................

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Picked this image on FB the system allegedly is shown in the programme, can you guys confirm what's the object.

the one in the picture is MSTAR (man portable surveillance and target acquisition radar) its American origin I believe. has day nigh operation and can minimise the dangers of ambush and surprise attacks or concealed movement. looks like the general didnt mind showing it off as a de motivational tactic to the TTP scumbags.. they must know now why time and again they were successfully targeted whenever they tried to sneak through or tried to launch an attack


its a PSR or ground surveillance radar. its like an automatic sentry warning system that doesn't need an operator and will automatically detect suspicious movement and raise the alarm giving away the direction of the detected target . it has its own receivers which the operators can review and pass on the information to C&C. it can distinguish between human and vehicle and its type size range etc.




the direction finding equipment or radio direction finders (which general talked about) also locate the enemy by picking up their radio signals and then triangulating their

, if you recall it was covered in my SSG interview

 

[Inception-06]

I watched it as well. Good program.

However, an episode in which a Pakistani army tank instructor was interviewed by Mr. Wajahat, gave me headache. Seriously, I was not expecting such naivety from a Pakistan army professional.

what do mean ? Can you please explain in detail ?, thx

 

[The Sandman]

wow just loved the last 6-7 min of first part