South Asia India scrambles as Bangladesh deploys TB2 drones, challenging regional hegemony

[Krishna with Flute]

Air Force power rankings are based on aircraft numbers (size of the air force).

No. China has bigger number still behind India.

 

[Lulldapull]

You missed the point of the article you quoted.

TB2s are more used in Recon now than in armed missile attack because of Russian defenses which have improved against incoming drones like Bayraktars.

But India is no Russia in that respect.

Still - Bangladesh Army (AFAIK) does not have any plans to use TB2s in armed mode for attacks.

BTW - they are also getting Akinci which is a higher capacity drone and can reportedly coordinate "wingman" style with existing fighters in Bangladesh inventory.

Man you'll never fight India like Pakistan will never fight them either.

And these sort of UCAV drones toting missiles have largely disappeared from Ukraine long ago due to severe losses.

Indian air defenses on its western borders are strong and these drones can only have limited success at best. I'm not sure what the deployment of SAM defenses is like on India's eastern borders, but recently India has significantly upgraded its SAM forces including fielding several locally developed systems.

Pakistan has a hundred Chinese and Turkish drones but has hardly ever used them against the talibunnies. Nobody knows the reason, but we are fairly confident that to use these assets properly you need excellent ISR preferably real time data/ intelligence gleaned from space based assets, which Pakistan has no access to.

 

[Lulldapull]

Nonsense. The whole point of these UAVs is reconnaissance. It's the whole reason Turkey built them. Strike capability is secondary and it was added later.

Earlier on TAI ANKA and Heron UAVs would find where the terrorists are and we'd hit them with artillery.

They can't observe the terrorists for long no?, unless they's primitive talibunnies or Somali or Sudanese warlords of Boko Haram with no radar coverage on the spectrum.

The reason why the US predator campaign gained notoriety post 9-11 was that CIA satellites were watching the Af-Pak border 24/7/ 365. Not only did the CIA have real time visuals but also the acoustic eavesdropping no?

That's how the US could stay in Af-Pak for this long bhai.

Otherwise it would've been a lot shorter stay no?

Your TB-2's get a whole lotta help from NATO/ CIA assets, or they'd be worthless like the Pakistani drones no?

Iran's got its own spy satellites now......and yous barely got a space program.

 

[Lulldapull]

Ask Armenia lol

Armenia is too small.

 

[Jiangnan]

No. China has bigger number still behind India.

Bangladesh will soon surpass India.

The Indian Air Force? The third largest in the world?