This is a great question that's on everybody's mind these days. And with Taliban government cash strapped they might be willing to sell quite a bit. How ever we may not buy as much, or perhaps even nothing at all.
Blackhawks:
Controversial.
If we get it, the US would have to be involved. They wouldn't mind. But we would then be buying another US platform, and will rely on them for quite some time. Pakistans Army is very professional, and they will set up the logistics and repair and supply chain for it. It would need to be inducted as a platform. Engineers trained specifically for it, as well as pilot and other crew. Operating budget would have to be drafted for this platform. This platform will also need to be incorporated into the Army doctrines and sub level. The rank Major and up will need to change their own strategies depending on the Blackhawks strengths and weaknesses, and will require retraining. Its a great platform. But all this would not be worth it for just a few Blackhawks that we would get at a good price that are still in good condition.
Mi17:
If we need it.
This we already operate and have it incorporated into the armed forces. Lets say we can get it for half the market price. We would then need to see if we really need this or not.
These are potential places where we might add them.
1: Buy very limited units to replace only those that are in poor shape.
2: Buy a dozen or more as reserves. But why spend money on maintaining and storing them for battle, instead when we will need them, we can readily get them from various sellers then and in modern version.
3: Add another airborne infantry unit to the Army. Possible, but this would have to be compensated in the budget when ever the new budget comes. Maintaining an airborne fighting unit is expensive, the men will need training, housing, will need to be stationed somewhere. The place that makes most sense is Balochistan. So lets see if the army deems it necessary to add another unit or they think that they are fine with where they are right now.
Humvee:
Doubtful.
Holds only 4 soldiers. Very expensive to operate since its a gas guzzler and parts are expensive too. You could probably run 3-4 Toyotas for the price of 1. Still offers no protection against IEDs or even RPGs. It would be cheaper to add bullet protection to the Toyotas than this. I hate seeing our soldiers be sitting ducks in the Toyota too. So if the army can budget it in, then sure.
Maxpros:
Can we afford it.
Even more expensive to operate. Since the Army is a professional outfit, they are not gonna be looking to buy one or two. Unless its for replacing broken units or for spares. They will buy a large number since it will be at discount price. But why?
It will have to be to add a whole new unit. Unless we outfit literally all convoys in Balochistan with this, BLA would rather just work harder at finding softer targets than engage this. So we would still lose people who are not in Maxpros. But if we outfit the whole, its gonna be so expensive to buy and to operate. The cost of operations would go so far up, and might end up hurting the number of sorties. We are taking a massive budgetary upgrade. We would have to see if that's worth it more than spending on operations to do more surveillance. For example.
The goal is to nullify the effects of an ambush. Can be done in two ways. One ambush resistant vehicles like this. Two better field work, more human intelligence, cost effective UAVs. Neither are 100% effective, if it was me I would go for ambush resistant vehicles, it makes more sense for Pakistan. But the budget will need to be worked out, and hopefully increased rather than cut from some other part of the army.
Nightvision equipment:
Possible.
Refit an already present unit with these, adding to their capabilities. Since we make our own, we would have to get a dang good price for it to make it worth it.
Small arms:
Yes, but how many can we buy?
Small numbers! If the M4 we are currently using need some replacements.
Large numbers if Pakistan Army is planning on outfitting an already present unit with these instead. Perhaps the light commando battalion can swap their AKs for these. Similarly other units who are meant to protect certain facilities may require refitting with these. This Taliban is not the same as that of the 90s. These guys have ambitious plans and may not give as nice a discount on these. Why?, because I am really not sure if they have those in large numbers. I know they have a lot of M16s which we don't need, but the numbers for the M4 are not that many. They were mostly for the "commandos'.
All in all, smaller less exciting items are more likely to avail. They will give a boost to our army. The larger items will need careful budgeting since they cost 4x as much to operate and we may not have a need in our doctrine.
, even US would prefer Pakistan get them compared to talibs
