ASELSAN outlined 198 ASTRALINK satellites, a first launch within two years and a target production rate of up to four satellites per month.
Pakistan's FY2026-27 budget spends $28.9bn on debt interest against $10.8bn on defence. How domestic debt, banks and a narrow tax...
Pakistan’s Fatah-4, Sarfarosh and jet attack drones examined alongside Russia’s Geran-4 and Geran-5, Ukrainian interceptors and India’s air defence.
Pakistan's Fatah-4-ER test points to extended-range variants across the Fatah family, a cheaper 750 km cruise missile, and a gap...
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An interview with Admiral Naveed Ashraf on Pakistan Navy priorities, force development, naval aviation, submarines, shipbuilding and maritime security.
Pakistan and Türkiye outline military support for Saudi Arabia as the Yemen conflict tests the Makkah Pact’s deployments, capabilities and strategic purpose.
Pakistan test-fired the Fatah-4 ER cruise missile on 6 October 2026. ISPR withheld its range, but footage shows a larger airframe with external folding wings.
Azerbaijani media report that DEFTECH (Blackyard) sold DT-001 mothership drones with F-1500 and F-5000 loitering munitions to Pakistan at ADEX 2026. This brief examines three...
Dongfeng armoured vehicles and MaxxPro MRAPs are in use with the Pakistan Army in KPK, but HIT Hisaar and MHIL Liger fielding lags. Quwa tracks...
The PAF and PN appear to be inducting Airbus H125 light utility helicopters, but France has reported no helicopter exports to Pakistan since 2021. This...
On 28 September 2026, Pakistan’s federal government issued the Public Procurement Rules 2026 through a Gazette notification, replacing the framework that had governed procurement since...
PNS/M Hangor, the Pakistan Navy's lead Hangor-class (Type 039B) submarine, test-fired a CM-708UNB anti-ship cruise missile in the North Arabian Sea.
On 25 September, a photo emerged on Chinese social media of an apparent fifth Pakistan Army Aviation Corps (PAA) Z-10ME-02 attack helicopter undergoing test flights.
Pakistan struck 10 sites across Afghanistan's Khost, Paktia, and Kandahar provinces early on 24 September, using Army and PAF loitering munitions alongside airstrikes.
Azerbaijan’s JF-17 order is less about the fighter and more about the PAF. Pakistan is selling a full path to modern air combat: training, integration,...
Hypersonic munitions have become a baseline requirement for major militaries. The United States, for example, plans to procure at least 10,000 of Castelion’s Blackbeard hypersonic...
Ukraine's artillery brigades are choosing unguided 155 mm shells over guided rounds like the M982 Excalibur. Here is why – and what the 2S22 Bohdana,...
The restiveness of Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) provinces has long been a persistent condition, one which the centre has, especially in recent years,...
The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement’s real gap is not the absence of joint combat operations. It is that no one – not even Islamabad or...
Powerus won a limited drone order from Pakistan’s Ministry of Defence and signed an MoU. Quwa assesses the foreign capital play.
At AAD 2026, Pakistan's GIDS is marketing the BMS-123 rocket booster, loitering munition warheads and fuzes, moving NESCOM upstream in the drone market.
Pakistan's $134m PakSat-2 project would replace PakSat-1R. Explore its potential SATCOM capacity, X-band options and the rationale for a third GEO satellite.
Indian analysts call the Pakistan Navy's eight Hangor-class submarines a "massive headache." Quwa unpacks the A2/AD case and the nuclear framing flaw.
Egypt's AOI, Tornex, Amstone and Aviro showed loitering munitions, interceptor drones and C-UAS at EIAS 2026. What is hardware and what is still renders.
The EU's €28.3 billion defence component for 2026 is fully allocated. This report maps who can actually win financed work across Ukraine's four connected markets,...
