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Is Pakistan Interested in the T-50 Trainer?

by Bilal Khan October 26, 2015 2648Views 2Comments

26 October 2015 By Bilal Khan Rana Tanveer Hussain, Pakistan’s Minister of Defence Production reportedly told The Korean Herald that the Pakistan Air Force was evaluating the T-50 trainer manufactured by Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI). Commonly understood as a ‘Lead in Fighter Trainer’ (LIFT) platform,…

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The Rationale Behind Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Program

by Bilal Khan October 25, 2015 2675Views 2Comments

25 October 2015 By Bilal Khan The recent news about the U.S looking to offer a nuclear technology and fuel deal to Pakistan in exchange for Islamabad curbing its tactical nuclear weapons program was not unexpected. It is no secret that the U.S has…

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JF-17 Block-2 and Block-3 Details Confirmed

by Bilal Khan October 17, 2015 2877Views 24Comments

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 Force (PAF)’s new mainstay multi-role fighter. That said, all of what you are about to read on this…

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Egypt to Buy Mistral Helicopter Carriers

by Bilal Khan September 27, 2015 2644Views 0Comments

26 September 2015 By Bilal Khan The French President Francois Hollande confirmed that Egypt is looking to buy the two Mistral-class helicopter carrier and amphibious assault ships from France. The two ships were originally built for Russia, but due to the ongoing…

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The Egyptian Military’s Build-Up

by Bilal Khan September 18, 2015 2616Views 0Comments

By Bilal Khan 18 September 2015 In the midst of political turmoil, the Egyptian military has begun entering a serious phase of modernization, not only in terms of acquiring new equipment, but in also enhancing its operational combat capabilities in significant ways. This is not…

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What is ‘Precision Strike?’

by Bilal Khan September 12, 2015 2756Views 0Comments

By Bilal Khan While the concept of “precision strike” has been in use since as far back as Vietnam War[1], the term became popular with the advent of the first U.S invasion of Iraq in 1991 and has been thrown around by defence…

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Lebanon’s New Weapons

by Bilal Khan September 7, 2015 2676Views 0Comments

By Bilal Khan In June 2015 the Government of Lebanon sent formal requests to the U.S for the sale of six A-29 Super Tucano turboprop aircraft and as many as 1,000 AGM-114 Hellfire II air-to-surface missiles. Together, the two programs would cost Lebanon…

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Indonesia to add Su-35 to its fleet

by Bilal Khan September 6, 2015 2667Views 0Comments

By Bilal Khan The Indonesian Ministry of Defence recently announced that the country would acquire “a squadron” of Sukhoi Su-35s from Russia to replace the Indonesian Air Force’s ageing Northrop F-5E Tiger IIs. The contract is reportedly valued at $1 billion U.S and…

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The JF-17 IV: Tomorrow’s Weapon Systems

by Bilal Khan September 4, 2015 2697Views 9Comments

By Bilal Khan The previous part of Quwa’s JF-17 series outlined the major changes coming to the platform via the development of JF-17 Block-3. Whereas the JF-17 of today is a significant improvement for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in terms of being…

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Pakistan and Yak-130? Not likely

by Bilal Khan August 30, 2015 2690Views 0Comments

By Bilal Khan There has been quite a bit of discussion on a recent news piece claiming that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is interested in the Yakovlev Yak-130 lead-in-fighter-trainer (LIFT) aircraft. It is no secret that LIFT aircraft such as the Yak-130,…