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Umair Aslam

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17 Apr

Royal Moroccan Air Force signed a contract for the acquisition of twelve Bayraktar TB2 Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) from Baykar Makina, the Turkish producer of the TB2.

Morocco is building up a fleet of UAVs and UCAVs with this contract.

In December 2020, the US State Department approved the sale of four MQ-9B Sea Guardian UCAVs including precision guided munitions. These acquisitions confirm that the race is on to buy U(C)AVs in North Africa from zero four years ago,

to today where countries from Morocco to Egypt, via Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, all have acquired UCAVs.

The Bayraktar TB2 has been successful in recent years with success against the Pantsir S1 missile system in Syria and Libya.

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Umair Aslam

@Defense785

18 Mar

Mi-35M helicopter from Pakistan Army Aviation.

📸: Ahsan Riaz

PAA is operating 4 Mi-35M helis. These four Mi-35M heavy attack helicopters were ordered from Russia in 2015.

Islamabad and Moscow concluded the $153 million helicopter deal during then-Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif’s visit to Russia in June 2016. A preliminary contract was signed at the Pakistan Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in August 2015.

The helicopter can be deployed for a host of different missions, including transporting up to eight paratroopers and carrying military supplies weighing up to 1,500 kg internally and 2,400 kg externally.

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Umair Aslam

@Defense785

17 Mar

Tracked armored vehicles attached to a brigade under the PLA 81st Group Army rumble on the training ground during a training exercise aiming to enhance the troops’ land maneuver capability on March 2, 2021.

(📸 by Meng Qingzhuang)

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Umair Aslam

@Defense785

8 Feb

Foreign Assistance in Indian Nuclear Program 🇮🇳☢️☣️

THREAD 🖇️

The Indian nuclear programme was not , initially, indigenous as claimed by #Indian authors. Outside powers have played important role in the development of India's nuclear #weapons programme.

1/n

Foreign Assistance in Indian Nuclear Program:

Canada 🇨🇦
Fracne 🇫🇷
Germany 🇩🇪
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
United States 🇺🇸
Russia 🇷🇺
Israel 🇮🇱

2/n

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Umair Aslam

@Defense785

3 Jan

Balouchistan – Land of oppurtunities for Non-state actors

*THREAD*

This thread will cover the issue of Missing Persons (MPs)

Due to economic potentials, Baluchistan has become a venue of geo-politics and battlefield of economic interests between global and regional power players.Baluchistan was becoming prone to terrorism and sectarian violence; however these tendencies have been sufficiently contained

A misperception is widely prevalent that thousands of innocent persons are missing in Pakistan particularly in Balochistan. This highly exaggerated figure has been propagated by various interest groups having vested agendas; these include nationalists,

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Umair Aslam

@Defense785

1 Jan

The Mirage Aircraft Upgrade
🇵🇰

The Mirage aircraft avionics upgrade project named as Retrofit of Strike Element ( ROSE ) was conceived in 1992. The upgradation of the aircraft commenced in April 1995 and was successfully completed by 1998.

The avionics package included inertial navigation system ( INS ) , head up display ( HUD ) , multi mode radar , airbome video recording system and self protection systems like RWR , chaff and flares . No. 25 squadron was re-equipped as a transient squadron for ROSE modified

aircraft in April 1996. Later , 7 squadron and the CCS ( Mirage ) squadron were allotted ROSE modified aircraft by August 1997. At present, Griffo fire control radars from Italy are being installed by the PAF on these Mirage Ill aircraft.

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