asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Great to see Burraq bring this capability to Pakistan armed forces I hope they can refine upgrade the design to have better and more accurate targeting
Pakistan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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timepass
Brigadier
Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System allows our F-16 Pilots to shoot missiles at targets by simply looking at them. This advanced helmet mounted sight system allows real time targeting of various threats and enables the pilot to engage them at angles which were previously impossible.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
BY | September 10, 2015 | [email protected] |
There are frequent rumors that various jihadist groups are going to defect from the Taliban-al Qaeda axis and join the Islamic State. One organization that is frequently mentioned in this vein is the Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-e-Taliban, or TTP). But earlier today a spokesman for the group, Muhammad Khorasani , denied the latest iteration of this gossip.
According to Khorasani, these reports are “based on lies.” Any claims that Mullah Fazullah, the head of the Pakistani Taliban, has sworn allegiance to “DAESH” (a derogatory Arabic acronym for the Islamic State’s name) are “false.”
An image posted by the TTP’s Umar Media, its official propaganda arm, shows a big “X” crossing out an account claiming that a video of Fazullah pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is “coming soon.” The image can be seen above.
The current Pakistani Taliban leadership has made it clear in the past that they wouldn’t be joining Baghdadi’s cause. In May of this year, the group published a pamphlet, which his nearly 60 pages long, in Iraq and Syria.
The publication, written by a jihadist known as Abu Usman Salarzai, purports to expose the errors in Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s claim to be the new caliph. Salarzai praises Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar (who was thought to be alive at the time), as well as Osama bin Laden and his successor as the head of al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri.
However, the Islamic State has picked off some disaffected Pakistani Taliban commanders. In January, a to Baghdadi. In February, the Pakistani Taliban’s emir for the tribal agency of Bajaur also to the Islamic State’s side.
The defections came after dissolved the original Pakistani Taliban coalition last year. The TTP has always been an alliance of several jihadist groups in northern Pakistan, and some of the founding members decided to break away to run their own operations for a time.
Still, al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban never lost all of their allies in the Pakistani Taliban.
In March, a major faction calling itself the Pakistani Taliban Jamaat ul Ahrar decided to rejoin the TTP umbrella organization. In addition, another jihadist group named Lashkar-i-Islam also decided to join the Pakistani Taliban. [See LWJ report, .]
There are indications that al Qaeda led the effort to reunite the jihadists.
In May of this year, Matiur Rehman, a veteran al Qaeda leader, united three jihadist groups under his command and then folded them into the Pakistani Taliban. The US Treasury Department has described Rehman as “a planning director for al Qaeda.” Rehman has been connected to multiple planned attacks against the West, including al Qaeda’s 2006 London airliner plot and a thwarted attempt to bomb trains in the New York City area in 2009. [See LWJ report, .]
Rehman’s presence in the newly-constituted TTP is a strong sign that al Qaeda plays a significant role in guiding the coalition. There are other pieces of evidence along these lines as well.
In April, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Khorasani , two al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) leaders who were in January.
Khorasani said that Farooq oversaw Umar Media’s propaganda. “We would frequently meet for the purpose of media related tasks,” Khorasani explained. “During our meetings, if he [Farooq] would see any mistakes in any of our Umar Media productions or in any of my statements that I would release as the spokesman, he would point them out in a very kind and loving way, allowing me to benefit from his valuable suggestions.”
Khorasani said Imran was “among the greatest militant teachers.” Khorasani added that he and “thousands” of other jihadists trained under Imran.
“Thousands of young men received militant training from him [Imran] before going and dealing heavy strikes against the centers of the infidels,” Khorasani said. “I also gained my militant training from him.”
Therefore, the TTP’s statements issued this year, as well as other evidence, indicate a strong bond between its current leadership and al Qaeda. While it is always possible that one or more factions may defect, much of the TTP remains firmly in the Taliban’s and al Qaeda’s camp.
Thomas Joscelyn is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Senior Editor for The Long War Journal.
timepass
Brigadier
Well IMO, I don't think this going to be materialized. Due to the following:
1- Pakistan is busy in making a full use of JF 17. Blk2 is in production & Blk3 is in final stage.
2- J10Bs are almost done.
3- J31 are on table.
4- Maybe a trick from Russians to give a signal to Indians.
thunderchief
Senior Member
Anything is possible, but this doesn't look very probable . Let's first wait and see would supposed Mi-35 deal materializes, before we start talking about Su-35.
Some thoughts on my end on the Su-35 to Pakistan news. The TLDR of it is that there is no doubt that such a platform would be of considerable use to the PAF (especially in deep strike and maritime operations), but there isn't enough to show us that talks are real.