According to a top Pakistani security official quoted in Agence-France Presse, the Pakistani military has deployed a fully equipped, fully function air defense system along the border with Afghanistan, giving it the ability to trace warplanes and attack helicopters that cross the border.
“The system has also been upgraded to immediate respond after detecting any aircraft or helicopter and to shoot it down,” the official added. The move is seen as a response to the US attack on a pair of military bases on November 26, which Pakistani officials maintain was “deliberate” and “pre-planned.”
Since Pakistan’s fighting in the areas along the border have long been restricted to fighting militants on the ground, there had been no reason to deploy air defense systems. It is unclear what impact this will have on the US drone strikes against Pakistan, but could conceivably also be used against unmanned aircraft.
The move is potentially a risky one, however, as Pakistani bases in the border areas come under attack by tribal militants, and retired Pakistani General Javed Qazi expressed concern that the militants might inflict costly damage on such systems.
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But how much of the border are they covering?
Several thousand kilometer of rugged terrain cannot just be put under management of a (single?) air defense system.
People are voting this down?
Must be the ones that think politicking and military paper tigers are the Real Stuff.
YOU KNOW WHERE TO SET YOUR MOUSE TRAP ! DON'T YOU ? AROUND THE CORNER !!!
Yeah Man! Now we are talking.
This was long overdue it is time the Pakistani's started to fight back..
Every American Hawk will say that they can crush Pakistan – and maybe they can.
But will a broke and overstretched America be able to sustain another front?
Osama Bin Laden has indeed achieved his aim of bringing down the evil Satan. It is time for the free peoples of the USA to stand up against the liars and deceivers in the White House, Senate and Congress – these people have no other goal than to lead a once powerful and free America into ruin.
VOTE ONLY FOR CANDIDATES WHO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
They have run US into ground. You have to serve in a War to realize what we are dealing with.These hawks will never volunteer to fight any war.These poor young kids who are looking for jobs get sucked into military and get killed or maimed. I know it first hand, I served in Vietnam.
Pakistanis should shoot down Drones to end the toy story.Pakistanis waited way too long and that emboldened US and Nato.For every one alleged Al-Qaida /Taliban,at least hundred innocent bystanders died.Those suspected Talibans / Al-Qaida were not indispensible to anti-US forces and it made little or no difference to the war effort against US.
Racist US could care less if Pakistani blood was shed but for Pakistanis not todo anything about it was a case of criminal complicity or negligence. To make it worse ,Pakistanis did not provide any advance radar warning to its citizens.If I were a Pakistani,I would have shot Drones off the sky long time ago.
And for the Hawks Pakistan has Nukes and while they do not have the ability to take out Washington DC they can take out a Carrier task force or two.
That would lower the peg of American Prestige a notch or two.
It is sad that US politicians cannot realise that Pakistan as a Government has been helping the US as much as it can, but the US must also realise that the Taliban were effectively the invention of the ISI and Pakistani Military but their funding was CIA money through and though.
It's about time someone besides Iran stood up to the US and Israel .They act like they are always right. I love when these politians refere to Israel as our great allie, Or Israel is the only friend we have in the middle east. What the hell has Israel ever done for America??? This friendship is only one way.
How's this for a scenario… a group of Haqqani / al Qaeda take control of one of the air defense control stations and then shoots down a couple of drones – or maybe a helo or 2 carrying American Marines and so, in response to the attack, the US obliterates the outpost. The Paks are outraged at this further encroachment of their sovereignty and the militants in the ISI or the military decide that the appropriate response would be to take out Kabul with a tactical.
Can't happen you say? There are enough crazies in charge on both sides of the border that this is entirely with the realm of possibility.
There is zero chance of Haqqani or the non-existent AlQaida taking control of the air defense system. However, at some point in time the Pakistani Air Force might think it appropriate to start shooting down the drones. If the US decides to go for an all out war in response to the shootings then that would be catastrophic.
By the way I am an American (FIRST LAST AND ALWAYS ) Iv'e been around more than 70 yrs. Iv'e seen a lot of change, most of it not good! The shame of it is most young people don't know the difference. WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT'S TO LATE.
WHAT HAPPNED TO MY TWO POST???
is it possible to shoot down drones? Don't they fly at a very high altitude and have stealth capabtlies where no one can detect them? Does Pakistan have the technological capability to bring them down?
YES WE CAN ! IRAN DID IT
Is this the start of a backlash against American Imperialism? Are nations waking up to the fact that the U.S. is the real enemy of the world? Is the light dawning in the minds of the sheeple?
The answers to these question will show us the way. Let's BDS the U.S. out of our lives.
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