Pakistan’s defence industry recently took the wraps off two new jet-powered one-way attack drones – the Woot-Tech HiMark-25 and the “Baaz Delta” by Global Industrial Defence Solutions (GIDS).
These new munitions are, at their core, relatively low-cost cruise missiles created by integrating loitering-munition platforms with miniature turbojet engines. Similar weapons have already been used by Russia in Ukraine (Geran-3 and Geran-5), while others are entering production in Western Europe (MBDA One-Way Effector or OWE).
The intent behind these jet-powered one-way attack drones (OWAD) or OWEs is to provide a long-range, precision-strike option that is scalable enough to deploy in numbers and provision rapidly at lower costs, at least compared to larger, traditional cruise missiles like the Babur-series or even precision-guided surface-to-surface missiles (SSM) like the Fatah-1 or 2.
The two systems reflect Pakistan’s continuing investment in asymmetrical strike technologies, building on earlier reveals of Shahed-style and several other loitering munition platforms.
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