{"id":1479,"date":"2015-03-14T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T08:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2015-03-14T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T08:45:23","slug":"pakistan-successfully-test-fires-first-domestic-combat-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/pakistan-successfully-test-fires-first-domestic-combat-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan successfully test-fires first domestic combat drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan has test-fired its first domestic combat drone with \u201cimpressive pinpoint accuracy.\u201d Hailed by the country&#8217;s army chief as a \u201cgreat national achievement,\u201d the new arsenal is aimed at boosting Pakistan\u2019s ability to fight terrorism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The drone, dubbed <em>&#8216;Burraq&#8217;<\/em> in honor of the flying horse described in Islamic screeds, is capable of flying in all-weather conditions. Equipped with a Barq laser-guided missile, the drone showed<em>\u201cimpressive pinpoint accuracy,\u201d<\/em> said Pakistan&#8217;s chief of army staff, General Raheel Sharif.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharif attended Friday\u2019s ceremony and witnessed the drone successfully hitting both static and moving targets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Proud moment in Pak history. Pakistan successfully tested it&#8217;s first Drone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Burraq?src=hash\">#Burraq<\/a> armed with laser guided missile <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dhU3cqKdta\">pic.twitter.com\/dhU3cqKdta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0622\u0644 \u0631\u0627\u0624\u0646\u0688\u0631 (@AlIrounder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlIrounder\/status\/576405336518721536\">March 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" type=\"mce-no\/type\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Speaking at the event, General Sharif said the newly developed weapon will increase the military\u2019s capacity to effectively combat terrorism. He also commended the scientists and engineers who worked on the project.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLet\u2019s join hands to take Pakistan forward in respective fields,\u201d<\/em> Sharif said in his address.<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad has in the past complained about US drone strikes targeting Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents near the country\u2019s northwestern border with Afghanistan, saying that such military activity violates Pakistan\u2019s territorial integrity. The CIA has carried out more than 400 strikes in Pakistan since 2004, according to the independent Bureau of Investigative Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s military developed surveillance-capable drones back in November 2013, but arming them required overcoming significant technical hurdles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COAS?src=hash\">#COAS<\/a> terms it great national achievement,momentous occasion. Force multiplier in our anti terror campaign\/ops-4\/5 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/qCLCJiZYeS\">pic.twitter.com\/qCLCJiZYeS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AsimBajwaISPR (@AsimBajwaISPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsimBajwaISPR\/status\/576366983727349760\">March 13, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has test-fired its first domestic combat drone with \u201cimpressive pinpoint accuracy.\u201d Hailed by the country&#8217;s army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[6,43,5,8,113],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-defense","tag-drone","tag-military","tag-pakistan","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pakistani-Drones.jpg?fit=690%2C365&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-nR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}