Posted on 05/13/2005 7:14:57 AM PDT by Srirangan
13 April 2005: As a favour for development and use of the Gwadar deep sea port, China has consented to export missile defence systems to Pakistan, and these will be deployed in Rawalpindi and sensitive nuclear and missile installations in Kahuta, Sargodha, and in the North West Frontier Province.
Following India’s Phalcon deal with Israel, it was reported in October 2003 that China would supply Pakistan an undisclosed number of FT-2000 missiles to counter India’s early warning capabilities.
Now with India likely to install a missile defence system, Pakistan has pressured China for some of its own, and this, whether the promised FT-2000s or the upgraded FT-2000As, will be sold without transfer of technology, at a cost of $5 billion, which Pakistan can pay back over ten years.
Diplomats said that Pakistan wanted to indigenise the missile defence system, but China refused, saying that while it was willing to transfer operational control, the technology would remain with it, and PLA Air Force air defence missile troops are likely to man the exported systems.
Insiders say that under the Gwadar deal, Pakistan was to entirely give it up to China, in return for defence equipment, but under US pressure, strategic control was retained over the port, but the Chinese kept to their term of developing it at their own cost and operating the transferred portion.
During Chinese premier Wen Jiabao’s recent visit, Pakistan wanted payment for Gwadar, which was bluntly refused, and so a request was made for a missile defence system, and since China had promised equipment in the port deal, it agreed, but rejected technology transfer.
The FT-2000 is said to be capable of destroying tactical ballistic missiles, much like the US Patriot and Russian S-300P system, and incorporates a passive radar target seeker which turns the target missile’s jamming frequencies against it, while transmitting no electromagnetic waves of its own, thus minimising chances of detection.
Diplomats said that Pakistan was not satisfied with the deal for four F-22P frigates from China, considering it miniscule for the favour of Gwadar, and so the sale of missile defence systems has been approved.
Chinese missile defence system for Pakistan - Original Article
Hopefully this will be the only missile defence system that the pakis employ to defend its nuclear facilities and other strategic assests....That will make it easier for india to destoy them in the event of a war .once this deal comes through the pakis wont have enough money left to buy the patriot defence system.
Obviously the Chinese didn't heed Noam Chomsky's determination that a missile defense "cannot work" and developed one anyway.
The US has a missile defense system there as well, if I remember correctly. The relationship between India and Pakistan, and their respective allies is a very interesting one--extremely complicated at this juncture, but I suspect that after Musharraf leaves the scene, things will get much clearer and simpler. Probably the reason the Chinese system is there is that the Pakistanis don't really trust the US to be their ally in the long run.
Commies never fall prey to the propaganda of fellow commies, do they???
this "missile" defense system is a joke..india already has plans to deploy an Arrow System from Israel for area wide defense and the S-400 system from russia for point defense.
The US has docked the sale of Arrow. And we dont yet have the Russian S-400 only the much older and less reliable S-300. BTW even the US is pitching the PAC-2 system for Pakistan.
Its all back to US and China arming Pakistan to the teeth and the US denying us the all the same.
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