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2017-12-08 India-Pakistan

Pakistan Air Force chief orders U.S. drones to be shot down if they enter the country's airspace

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 Do we have drones with an air-to-air loadout? I see the possibility for some serious entertainment.

Posted by SteveS 2017-12-08 00:41|| 2017-12-08 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 After we laugh, consider exactly how any US forces can be supplied in Afghanistan. How any airplane flies there. If we should need to do a Saigon-style evacuation where would it go.
Then it gets less and less amusing.

Posted by magpie 2017-12-08 02:47|| 2017-12-08 02:47|| Front Page Top

#3 A credible threat of retaliation should work, magpie.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-08 03:33|| 2017-12-08 03:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Support Balochistan independence.

Posted by Muggsy Mussolini4506 2017-12-08 07:43|| 2017-12-08 07:43|| Front Page Top

#5 ..or a public signing of a defense treaty with India. (after Jerusalem you think they'd pay attention to the man in the WH)

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-12-08 09:29|| 2017-12-08 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 perhaps we need to hit the "off switch" on their jets once in a while to remind them of who's a superpower and who's a failed state with pretensions

Posted by Frank G 2017-12-08 09:49|| 2017-12-08 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 As if it is so easy to figure out "U.S." drone from "Somebody else's" drone.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-12-08 12:28|| 2017-12-08 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Need some drones with Wild Weasel mission load.

Posted by 3dc 2017-12-08 14:09|| 2017-12-08 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Should have done the Baluchistan gambit long ago.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-12-08 14:32|| 2017-12-08 14:32|| Front Page Top

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