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Army of Pakistan has successfully tested home-made drone Burraq armed with laser-guided missile.
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Defence & Security News - Pakistan
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Pakistan has successfully tested a domestically developed unmanned combat aerial vehicle Burraq equipped with the laser-guided missile Barq capable of striking its targets with pinpoint accuracy in all types of weather conditions.
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 A Pakistani-built Burraq (flying horse) combat drone in flight. |
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The Pakistani army said the drone, named Burraq (flying horse), successfully hit stationary and moving targets with its Barq (lightning) laser-guided missile with “impressive pinpoint accuracy” on Friday, March 13, 2015 and the military achievements would be soon deployed against terrorists. The system would be a “force multiplier in our anti-terror campaign”, said an army spokesman, Asim Bajwa. Developing homemade drones has been a priority for Pakistan given the extensive use made of them since 2004 by the CIA to target terrorist groups in the restive north-west tribal belt. The controversial weapons have proved irresistible given their ability to linger over their targets for extended periods of time, collect intelligence and deliver deadly missiles far more cheaply than conventional aircraft. |
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