Pakistan Missiles - Updates, News & Discussion

[Pakistan First]

We should be able to launch IRBMs from our western Balochistan and attack Israel if we are attacked. This is why I asked about our Shaheen 3 inventory bhai.

If we can't launch hundreds of Shaheen 3's at Israel from our territory, consider it as capitulation then!

PAF is a joke in todays world man. Its only a third world India specific force no?

Lets get real man.

If we can't attack/ retaliate like how these Irani/ turani are fighting back......forget about it no?

IRBMs is a very bad strategy for target that far. Each IRBM costs millions of dollars. Also, We got more than twice the distance between us and Israel Versus the distance between Iran and Israel. So using BMs is totally stupid for conventional hits at that large distance. Its like wasting a million dollar equipment and that too can be intercepted. You need to understand what an IRBM is. Its a 20 meters high (like 4 to 5 storey high building). Its almost a space rocket. Why you make it so big? Because it needs to contain a lot of fuel. 95% of the weight is only fuel that gets burned bringing the missile outside the atmosphere. All this just to deliver a single warhead to a target where enemy is already ready to intercept it. As IRBM is the first thing that gets detected due to massive altitude it attains. Its plain stupidity to do it for conventional targets. Iran couldn't use the airforce as it didn't had one.

Iranian attacks may be okay against Bahrain and Kuwait, but those have not achieved any major success over Israel. Israeli airbases are fully functional, their leadership not harmed, nuclear sites not harmed. Nothing major happened. Its only social media hu ha that Iran did something. It didn't.

To do sustained strikes over time you need modern airforce. PAF is undoubtedly solid. Supposedly if we receive J-35 then it would make it really lethal. Air refueling over Iran and dropping stand off weapons from the edge of Iraq is our best bet in any military conflict with Israel.

 

[Pakistan First]

@Lulldapull

Why is that Iran is unable to destroy a single US naval warship, any destroyer that are lurking at striking distance from Iran's coast ?

You always say its a good strategy to have only ballistic missiles and no airforce , No deep water modern attack submarines and no other capability. See today US / Israel can hit Iran any time they want. For last few days, US is literally pounding Iran and Iran in unable to do anything except re-attacking same Kuwait and Bahrain which are closest neighbors and everyone knows US do not have its forces anymore in those bases.

Question is, if only Ballistic missiles / coastal anti-ship missiles is such a great strategy then why on earth its unable to destroy a single warship of US Navy ? and Why Iran is unable to deter US to keep pounding Iran all the time ? US just come whenever it wants and slap Iran whenever it likes. It can fly over Tehran uncontested.

I think you know the hard reality that Iran is not a technological power. Its heavily sanctioned country with very mediocre technology and thus only relies on old fashion BMs out of necessity. Iran's greatest strength is its geography through which it can choke global fuel & trade sea lane. So its time you stop lecturing many times more modern militaries like Turkey or nuclear power Pakistan by giving them example of Iran.

Bottomline is the military MUST be balanced. Air POWER is the most CRITICAL element of modern warfare. if you leave gaps or weaknesses in any domain of warfare then enemy will exploit those areas and will punish you through those.