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...
Pakistan's DIPRA Ordinance puts defence production, procurement and R&D under COAS/CDF-led boards. Quwa maps what the text offers – and...
Quwa's Pulse Check Season 1 Episode 11 takes up the question raised by Fire Point's approach to Pakistan – whether...
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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...
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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...
Six of the 13 countries that have ordered or selected the Embraer C-390 still operate the older C-130H, and Belgium's disposal route shows how some...
Heavy Industries Taxila revealed the D-248 and S-369 at the 2026 Indus RAS Expo – Pakistan's longest-range loitering munitions, with up to 3,000 km reach.
Rheinmetall unveiled the GMF 140, a 140-metre guided missile frigate with 64 strike-length VLS cells, AEGIS and CMS 330, aimed at an unnamed North American...
Baykar flew ten K2 Kamikaze UAVs as one autonomous swarm on 1 August 2026, doubling the five-aircraft formation shown in March. What the test actually...
Paramount has integrated ASELSAN's ASELFLIR-500 electro-optical turret onto the Mwari. Both firms frame it as market access rather than a customer requirement.
