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2020-12-26 India-Pakistan

Rogue drone in Punjab returns to Pakistan on being fired upon

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
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#1 No Dron drone comments?

Posted by Frank G 2020-12-26 03:54|| 2020-12-26 03:54|| Front Page Top

#2 ☺
There were two. The BSF is a paramilitary police force under the home ministry. They shot at the first one, it buzzed off. The other, flown by another operator probably, came in after an hour or so I think. Armed with their old Denels and SSG 69s, these boys have only three months of marksman training and sometimes a single long shooter in a platoon.

These are not military UAVs by the way, just commercial drones repurposed for making drops and picking up stuff.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-26 09:41|| 2020-12-26 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Missed you, dude!

Posted by Frank G 2020-12-26 10:04|| 2020-12-26 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I was sick. Lots of chocolate and brandy later I feel better.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-26 10:08|| 2020-12-26 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Dron, you just went whoosh!

Posted by Wren 2020-12-26 10:15|| 2020-12-26 10:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry I keep phasing betwixt different continuums.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-26 10:18|| 2020-12-26 10:18|| Front Page Top

#7 So are things in control? Between India and China?

Posted by Wren 2020-12-26 10:21|| 2020-12-26 10:21|| Front Page Top

#8 We're both paper tigers, Wren. The west has a valuable lesson to learn from our eternal standoff.

Militarily indecisive States only prolong their own suffering.

The only reason China is in no hurry to escalate is because a) we will give them the first real fight in decades. And b) because they are not good on the food output right now and need more trade than bad blood.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-26 10:27|| 2020-12-26 10:27|| Front Page Top

#9 The real intrigue, cloak and crooked dagger is going on in Nepal right now. China has been insistent on expanding their brand of commie hive-mind industrialism across Asia, one poor country at a time. Srilanka cottoned on to this early but Nepal sold out. Efforts are under way to redeem those fools out of what they've gotten themselves into. The efforts look ugly, yes. But to preserve the un-Chinese character of the Himalayas, it is vert necessary.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-26 10:34|| 2020-12-26 10:34|| Front Page Top

#10 What about the neighbour, Pakistan? They seem super excited.

Posted by Wren 2020-12-26 10:37|| 2020-12-26 10:37|| Front Page Top

#11 They're excited whenever New Delhi is flummoxed. And it doesn't take much in these overdemocratic times to flummox any government.

Their doctrine envisions a vicious civil disturbance accompanied by military action on the borders and they think the Capital can be taken... Yaay hoo Akbar!

Idiots. They don't take into account that loss of civ control will only free us to finally do what needs to be done.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-26 10:46|| 2020-12-26 10:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Lol! Let them yeet.

Posted by Wren 2020-12-26 10:54|| 2020-12-26 10:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Thank you for weighing in, Dron66046. I wasn’t sure if it was important, so I posted in hope of clarification from someone who actually knows.

Question: If India and China are paper tigers, does that make Pakistan a paper jackal?

Finally, I’m glad you’re feeling better. Chocolates plus brandy suggests it was not Covid that laid you low. How is the pandemic going over there? I seem to recall y’all crossed the 1 million infections mark, but I saw no reports of bodies piled up in the streets or hospitals overwhelmed.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-26 15:19|| 2020-12-26 15:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Thinned blood, stimulant, and good attitude has got me though some bad times - worked for a West Nile patient positive (not me).

Good to see you Dron.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-12-26 15:26|| 2020-12-26 15:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks, swksvolFF. Yupp, it's the attitude that is key. The good Book does that for me. Take it from your friendly whiskey priest.☺

Maybe I'm a bit harsh on my own guys, TW. I wish we weren't ruled by the Indian equivalent of the US GOP, pompous ethics ridden fools. Unleashed, we are of course rather formidable, but the civ leaders with their 5 year shelf lives fear the military and the window of clarity that war brings to a people. They serve status quo as if their lives depend on it; keeping the citizen dumb and docile, the exchequer bailing out their half-baked ideas. While a few pogs decide national security policies and some uniformed tent pegs march around on TV twirling a baton every year or so. It's why I keep telling western conservatives to look at India, it is what your liberals want to 'achieve'.

There's a joke we have. The only reason the sunnis and commies of India haven't taken over the country yet is because they're also incompetent. You see, unlike you we experimented with things like Affirmative Action and minority appeasement just a couple of years into our independence and have been paying the price. It makes the machine sluggish, confused and too uncertain of its priorities in a time when quick responses and dynamic adaptation to flexible ethics has become necessary.

Pakistain is a real predator, with tentacles growing even through the US as we discuss this. Strong influences which no amount of defense from either red or blue will be able to hold against. The biggest irony is, it's fed only on the largesse of nations with more money than they know what to do with. We see Pakistain as a construct of historic folly, much like Palestine. With Kashmir properly resolved, we hope to move on to liberating parts of PoK even as we try to free Balochistan. In the near future there may even be a deal with Sikhs militants to wrest control of the Punjab in Pakistan. The best thing to do to it would be internal dissolution, civil strife and then you moving in to dismantle the nuke potential 'lest it fall into newly independent sasquatch hands'.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-26 19:49|| 2020-12-26 19:49|| Front Page Top

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