巴基斯坦武装无人机或源于中国
A lethal missile attack this week on Islamist militants by Pakistani forces was carried out with an armed drone likely to have been supported, designed or supplied by China, according to defence analysts.
防务专家表示，本周巴基斯坦对伊斯兰主义武装分子发动一次致命导弹攻击时所使用的武装无人机，很可能是由中国支持、设计或供应的。
The Pakistan army on Monday claimed it successfully used the “Burraq” unmanned aerial vehicle for an attack on a terrorist compound in the north Waziristan region along the Afghan border, in which three Taliban militants were killed.
周一，巴基斯坦军方宣布，它成功地使用“布拉克”(Burraq)无人机对位于巴基斯坦-阿富汗边境的北瓦济里斯坦(North Waziristan)特区的一处恐怖分子营地实施了攻击，击毙了三名塔利班武装分子。
Announced via Twitter by Major General Asim Bajwa, chief spokesman of Pakistan’s armed forces, it was the first known use of an armed Pakistani drone. “For now, the authorities believe their ability to target hardcore militants has improved with this drone capability,” said one western diplomat.
这则消息是巴基斯坦武装部队首席发言人阿西姆巴贾瓦少将(Major General Asim Bajwa)在Twitter上宣布的。据人们所知，这还是巴基斯坦首次使用武装无人机。“现在，当局相信，具备了这种无人机能力，他们打击顽固武装分子的能力已有所改善，”一名西方外交官表示。
The attack appeared to mark a significant milestone for Pakistan, which has now joined the small club of countries with armed drones. In the past, Islamabad repeatedly sought to buy them from the US but Washington, reluctant to export sensitive technology, refused.
对巴基斯坦来说，这次攻击似乎是一个重要的里程碑。如今，该国已跻身少数拥有武装无人机的国家的行列。过去，巴基斯坦曾多次向美国求购武装无人机，但不愿出口敏感技术的美国没有同意。
However, China — an ally of nuclear-armed Pakistan and its most important conventional weapons supplier — appears to have stepped up its support.
然而，中国似乎在这方面加大了对巴基斯坦的支持。对拥有核武装的巴基斯坦来说，中国是它的盟友，也是它最重要的常规武器供应国。
Neil Gibson, a weapons analyst with IHS Jane’s, said that despite the claims of Pakistani manufacture, “close analysis of imagery released by Pakistan suggests at least a heavy debt to Chinese systems”. The Burraq, he added, “strongly resembles” China’s CH-3 UAV.
简氏防务(IHS Jane's)武器分析师尼尔吉布森(Neil Gibson)表示，尽管巴基斯坦声称该无人机是国产的，“但在对巴方发布的图像进行仔细分析后发现，它最起码是深受中国无人机系统影响”。他接着说，“布拉克”无人机跟中国的彩虹-3无人机(CH-3)“非常相像”。
Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), said China must have helped Pakistan if it did indeed produce a UAV that goes beyond basic reconnaissance.
斯德哥尔摩国际和平研究所(Sipri)高级研究员彼得韦策曼(Pieter Wezeman)表示，如果巴基斯坦真的生产出了基本侦察型以外的无人机，那么中国肯定对此提供了帮助。
“Developing a drone with armed capability is much more difficult than just a reconnaissance one because the reconnaissance one can be built with very basic technology, but integrating weapons is a different level,” he said. “Either it is a Chinese UAV or based on Chinese technology.”
“研制武装无人机比只研制侦察无人机困难得多，因为侦察无人机使用很基础的技术就能造出来，但把武器整合进去就需要另一个水平的技术了。”他说，“它要么是中国的无人机，要么就是基于中国技术生产的。”
Additional reporting by Victor Mallet in New Delhi
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