Those defenses are being put in HARM's way.
Posted on 12/09/2011 11:53:18 AM PST by JerseyanExile
A senior Pakistani military officer says the government has deployed air defense weapons on the country's border with Afghanistan, following the NATO airstrikes last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reports Major General Ashfaq Nadeem says the new deployment of the border weapons was aimed at preventing “fresh attacks” as Pakistan re-evaluates its strategy for safeguarding its western borders from air raids.
The newspaper says Nadeem briefed the federal cabinet and the Senate's defense committee about the weapons deployment Thursday.
U.S. and Pakistani officials have offered differing initial accounts of what happened at the Pakistani posts near the border with Afghanistan.
Pakistani military officials have said the attack was unprovoked and deliberate, an accusation U.S. officials have rejected. NATO helicopter gunships and jet fighters based in Afghanistan are said to have fired on two Pakistani military posts in the Mohmand region near the Afghan border on November 26.
Public anger in Pakistan over the killings is high. Islamabad has ordered the United States to vacate a Pakistan airbase it uses, and has indefinitely closed the two main overland routes NATO uses to send nonlethal supplies to Afghanistan.
The U.S. military and NATO have launched an investigation into the incident.
PAF posturing for domestic consumption.
I say, as an ally, it’s our duty to help them test it.
How about launching some cruise missiles in their direction and see if the system works?
I kid, I kid.
Those defenses are being put in HARM's way.
A worlp without a pakistan would be a better, cleaner, safer world. Just sayin’.
Otherwise known as "fish in a barrel", "the late Paki ADA", and/or "JDAM magnets".
In a couple more weeks, the Pakistani pseudostate will be complaining about how NATO/US has destroyed these AA missile batteries — by an air strike. :’) Thanks JerseyanExile.
Nope;
Otherwise known as "stuff we sold them, or gave to them, trained them to use, and helped set up the logistics to deploy them.
If I'm wrong and they are Soviet or Chinese, they should be instant targets. If I'm right and they are/were ours, they should be instant targets.
Having spent some time in the Middle East and one miserable ADA assignment.....our 3rd World “Allies” rarely get the same performance from our equipment that we do. I would think we could take out 95% of Paki ADA, along with most of their C&C without losing a plane.
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