This Industry Brief is a follow-up to Quwa’s November 2025 Market Intelligence analysis, “Pakistan’s One-Way Effector (OWE) Market,” which assessed the state of Pakistan’s emerging OWE capability.
The original brief found that Pakistan was “more unintentionally than systematically” developing systems that could become jet-powered one-way attack or effector munitions (OWE), and that a coherent strategy to integrate these systems was absent. However, in this update, Quwa assesses that Pakistan is, as of 2026, actively pursuing a strategy to design, produce, and procure jet-powered OWEs.
In November 2025, Quwa assessed that Pakistan’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) – i.e., National Engineering & Scientific Commission (NESCOM), Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS), and National Aerospace Science & Technology Park (NASTP) – had the capacity to develop jet-powered OWEs through their various loitering munition and small-factor cruise missile projects, but it was not pursuing a coherent strategy for producing or procuring such solutions.
The concern at the time was that siloed, service-specific programs were producing overlapping munitions without a unifying strategy to exploit the OWE concept’s core advantage, i.e., saturating enemy integrated air defence systems (IADS) through scale and speed. In other words, the country had the building blocks, but nobody had drawn up the blueprint.
By April 2026, however, both private-sector and state-owned Pakistani vendors had publicly revealed dedicated jet-powered OWE designs.
Woot-Tech Aerospace, a private company, unveiled the HiMark-25(TJ), a turbojet-powered variant of its propeller-driven HiMark-25 loitering munition, offering a 250 km range, 320 km/h dash speed, and a 25 kg warhead.
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