Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye named their pact the Makkah Defence Alliance – Pakistan takes the first secretary-general. What 'Look West' buys Islamabad.
A Shahed-style munition at POF, HIT's D-248 and Ukraine's FP-1 point to one Pakistan Army goal: 2,000–3,000 km of low-cost...
Jet-powered Geran production overtook piston output in August 2026, with launches roughly quintupling from June to July and Ukrainian interception...
Liberator, a classified US Navy seabed launcher for Mk 48 heavyweight torpedoes, is sized to fit the Boeing Orca XLUUV's...
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Uzbek state television and the presidential office released the first official footage of the country's Chengdu J-10CE fighters in late August 2026, showing at least...
Photos of an unmarked J-10CE at Chengdu point to a reported 24-jet Uzbek Air Force order, which would make Uzbekistan China’s second J-10CE export customer...
Last week, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) General Manager Mehmet Demiroğlu stated that the design work of the naval variant of TUSAŞ’s Hürjet trainer is underway....
Pakistan's DIPRA Ordinance puts defence production, procurement and R&D under COAS/CDF-led boards. Quwa maps what the text offers – and asks of – private firms.
Quwa's Pulse Check Season 1 Episode 11 takes up the question raised by Fire Point's approach to Pakistan – whether a Kyiv design house and...
Pakistan's private firms can design drones but import every motor, PCB and fibre-optic cable. POF, NRTC and PAC already hold the upstream base to supply...
The Pakistan Navy's Sea Sultan LRMPA is slipping. Quwa examines how cutting Embraer out of the Lineage 1000E conversion created spares, MRO and cost risk.
India signed a USD $203 million deal on 17 August 2026 to lease two MQ-9B SeaGuardian HALE UAVs for the Indian Navy, completing a US-origin...
Ukraine’s Fire Point, an emergent defence contractor and manufacturer headquartered in Kyiv, is actively looking to collaborate with at least one private Pakistani company to...
On 07 Augst 2026, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, which also includes an Article 5-style mutual defence provision. The...
Simply put, the dynamics that have chilled the Pakistani private sector's interest in the defence industry have also been felt by non-Chinese OEMs.
India weighs France's FCAS and the UK-led GCAP alongside its 114-Rafale bid, while Pakistan's PAF balances China's J-35AE package against Türkiye's KAAN.
Türkiye invited Pakistan into KAAN from 2016. Pakistan chose Project AZM instead. On this episode of Pulse Check, Bilal Khan and Aseem work through what...
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement on 07 August 2026. Why the MJDA's value is capacity building, not Article 5.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye signed a trilateral collective defence agreement in Makkah on 07 August 2026. The operative clause is public; the treaty text,...
Pakistan’s June 2026 DIPRA Ordinance created a defence-industrial regulator with the power to licence private R&D and open public test ranges to private companies. What...
Ukraine and Iran proved that OWAs, USVs and ballistic SSMs work at scale. Quwa unpacks how the Pakistan Navy will turn Pakistan's fastest-growing product lines...
Aselsan reported H1 2026 revenue of TRY 88.5 billion, up 25% in real terms, with order backlog reaching $23.2 billion. The Turkish defense electronics firm...
The Republic of Korea Navy and Hanwha Systems demonstrated manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) for mine countermeasures at Busan on 3 August, with an LLM generating the...
Two Thunder Tiger SeaShark unmanned surface vehicles running Shield AI's Hivemind autonomously detected and expelled an intruding vessel off Pingtung on 29 July, six weeks...
