Pakistan Bet Its Drone Industry on NESCOM. It’s Starting to Pay Off. Pro
NESCOM now designs the airframe, the mission architecture, the sensors and the munitions. Quwa unpacks what that makes it — and why Pakistan's UCAV bid...
Bilal Khan
Founder of Quwa, Bilal has been researching Pakistani defence industry and security issues for over 15 years. His work has been cited by Pakistan's National Defence University (NDU), the Council of Foreign Relations, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Centre of Airpower Studies and many others. He has a Hons. B.A in Political Science and Masters of Interntional Public Policy from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
KAAN P1 Runs Its First Taxi Test as Türkiye Races to Replace Its US Engine Pro
Can TEI's TF-35000 free the KAAN — and Türkiye's export pipeline — from US engine controls?
Pakistan Takes the Plunge in Pursuing Military Drones and Developing Their Autonomy Stacks Plus Pro
ndus RAS Expo 2026 showed that Pakistan is not just building drones, but the sensor fusion and C2 layers that make them work.
Movement in the Pakistan Army’s Wheeled Armoured Vehicle Programs? Pro
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Heavy Industries Taxila Reveals New C-UAS Solution Pairing Interceptor Drones with Radar Plus Pro
On 23 July 2026, Pakistan’s Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT) revealed its own interceptor drone-based counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS), called P-905. The HIT P-905 consists of...
Why Pakistan’s Military Procurement Policy Is Silently Crushing Private Sector Defence Innovation Pro
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The Next Phase of Pakistan’s C-UAS Efforts is to Build an Integrated Counter-Drone System Plus Pro
It seems that Pakistan’s current approach to counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) involves disparate systems – both soft-kill and hard-kill – trying to stop quadcopters and...
How the UAE’s EDGE Group Is Building Its Supply Chain Through Acquisitions Pro
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How Loyal Wingman UCAVs Are Evolving Into Collaborative Combat Aircraft Pro
A global survey of loyal wingman UCAVs and collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) – the XQ-58 Valkyrie, MQ-28 Ghost Bat, and the rise of the $30M...
Pakistan Air Force: Can the J-35 and Kızılelma Replace the F-16? Plus Pro
Baykar recently test-fired a Roketsan JET-230 aeroballistic missile or air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) from its Bayraktar Kızılelma unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). This would be...