Pakistan Air force equipment and terror war

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/16/INV517J9O9.DTL

Last week, Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy to the region, found himself in an uncomfortable position, trying to defend Pakistan’s counter-insurgency strategy before hostile members of Congress. Rep. Gary Ackerman, a Democrat from New York, asked him how on earth an F-16 fighter jet could be used as a counter-insurgency weapon.

Holbrooke said, “I am told by F-16 pilots that F-16s with modern avionics can be used as a counter-insurgency tool, but quite honestly, it requires very sophisticated training. They did use aging F-16s in the battles in Swat.” In other words, the planes did not have up-to-date avionics, and the pilots were not properly trained.

They can’t precision bomb.