Pakistan’s Shift to COIN Part 4: Airborne ISR and Airstrikes
The PAF delivered two key capabilities in order to effectively support the Army & Frontier Corps in FATA: (1) Airborne ISR and (2) precision airstrikes.
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Pakistan’s Shift to COIN Part 3: Infantry and Light Armoured Vehicles
This article will offer some detail into the roles of the Army and the Frontier Corps in regards to Pakistan’s counterinsurgency (COIN) campaign, and how...
Pakistan’s Shift to COIN Part 2: The Centrality of Army Aviation
04 December 2015 By Bilal Khan Continuing from last week (Pakistan’s Shift to COIN Part 1) Amongst the earliest comprehensive military development programs set up...
Pakistan’s Shift to COIN Part I: Tumultuous Beginnings
The Pakistani armed forces were not trained to think or fight in terms of counterinsurgency (COIN), and as a result, many of the armed forces’...
JF-17 Block-2 and Block-3 Details Confirmed
The information below will not be new to most Pakistani defence enthusiasts, especially those following the development of the JF-17 Thunder, the Pakistan Air...
Is it finally the Pakistan Navy’s turn?
03 October 2015 By Bilal Khan Compared to its sibling service arms, i.e. the Pakistan Army (PA) and Pakistan Air Force (PAF), the Pakistan Navy...
The JF-17 II: Introducing BVR & Precision Strike
By Bilal Khan In my previous piece I took a high level look at the JF-17 program, and in broad strokes I identified the improvements...
The JF-17 (Part 1): A Wave of Change for the Pakistan Air Force
Note: This was Quwa’s very first article, published over four years ago in 2015. Whether it be wars with its rival India or periods of...
