Posted on 02/21/2012 1:59:38 PM PST by James C. Bennett
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani navy took delivery Tuesday of two state-of-the-art, US-made surveillance aircraft nine months after Islamist militants destroyed two similar planes, officials said.
Pakistan said the P3C aircraft, modified with the latest avionics, are designed to improve surveillance in the North Arabian sea, one of the world's most important shipping routes deeply troubled by Somali piracy.
"The two aircraft have been delivered to the Pakistan navy. These aircraft have been provided under the foreign military funding programme," a spokesman for the US embassy in Islamabad, told AFP.
Relations between Pakistan and the United States were severely damaged last year by a covert American raid that killed Osama bin Laden and air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and the alliance remains tense.
The navy said the aircraft would help "maintain requisite vigil in our vital area of interest in the North Arabian Sea", which it said was "home to intense maritime activity both legal and illegal and thus warrants continuous guard".
Pakistan is to receive six P3C aircraft from the United States in three batches. The first two, received in 2010, were destroyed during a 17-hour siege of a key naval base in Karachi last May blamed on the Taliban.
The attack killed 10 personnel and deeply embarrassed the military, just three weeks after bin Laden was killed in the garrison town of Abbottabad.
Only in Obamaland would we give a weapons platform to the people hiding Bin Ladin. Yes, the P3 is weapons platform able launce missiles and torpedoes..
Giving high tech stuff to a country that hates us. What could go wrong?
Errr...wasn’t this the country that was hiding Bin Laden within sight of their top military school?
And we are giving them...what...?
Are these people insane?
That and all the nifty technology will be headed to Beijing on the next flight out. A second fact the Indians will well understand. Nobody is this stupid. It is intentional sabotage of our vital national interests and therefore qualifies as treason.
just crap....now we slit our own throats
The Paki’s will let China have a look see at them too.
And there is a good chance some of the P3Cs will be destroy by terrorists before they get a chance to take on Indian Navy.
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2 Days back in an Indian forum -Members were discussing 2 WAR front scenarios with China and Pakistan at the same time but many of Members were banking on USA to take care of China aggression.
But today they changed their mind and putting USA in same league as them .
And some even want to teach a lesson or two that how karma is a b**ch .
2 Days back in an Indian forum -Members were discussing 2 WAR front scenarios with China and Pakistan at the same time but many of Members were banking on USA to take care of China aggression.
But today they changed their mind and putting USA in same league as them .
And some even want to teach a lesson or two that how karma is a b**ch .
2 Days back in an Indian forum -Members were discussing 2 WAR front scenarios with China and Pakistan at the same time but many of Members were banking on USA to take care of China aggression.
But today they changed their mind and putting USA in same league as them .
And some even want to teach a lesson or two that how karma is a b**ch .
P3C survillence aircrafts or Anti submarine equipped with torpedos and anti ship missiles.
There is no other navy around it except India ,their nemesis.
So what is the point of donating P3C in name of WOT aid or is Indian armed forces are terrorist organisation which need to be eradicated ??
P3C survillence aircrafts or Anti submarine equipped with torpedos and anti ship missiles.
There is no other navy around it except India ,their nemesis.
So what is the point of donating P3C in name of WOT aid or is Indian armed forces are terrorist organisation which need to be eradicated ??
P3C survillence aircrafts or Anti submarine equipped with torpedos and anti ship missiles.
There is no other navy around it except India ,their nemesis.
So what is the point of donating P3C in name of WOT aid or is Indian armed forces are terrorist organisation which need to be eradicated ??
anti piracy and anti indian subs. but they wont get the
laest best stuff. mad gear is available elsewhere, probaby better stuff is avalable from china.
20+ year old sensor suite 50 year old airframe design.
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