Pakistan Army drone crashes

Pakistan Army drone crashes

KARACHI: An unmanned Pakistan Army aircraft crashed early Wednesday in Sindh after developing a technical fault, army officials said.

The drone, which was on a routine flight near Nawabshah, 265 kilometres north of Karachi, fell on to a farm causing no casualties or damage.

http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-5-2005_pg7_3

Come on now, can Pakistan really afford UAVs? I mean the Air Force has only a $500 million budget a year (my security firms earns more than twice as much as that). I keep thinking these Pakistani drones must be just paper kites or something else that’s useless but looks good.

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what does the air force budget have to do with an army drone?

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it’s cheaper and safer to send a UAV on a reconnaisance flight than to use of of the very expensive Mirage III/V RPs that we have for that purpose.

UAVs cost less, are more difficult to target and cost considerably less to operate.

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^ Not true... the Americans have been testing their drones for the last decade or so... so they can't be that good.

Drones are only useable in a non-hostile airspace... it's a total myth to say they can penetrate any airspace anywhere at any times otherwise the Americans would have had a better luck in the Korean airspace.

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arey bewakoof itana bhi nahi pata to chulloo bhar pani main doob mar