An analysis of the ARFC’s challenges in building a credible stockpile to sustain a genuine wartime effect.
Pakistan’s Rocket Force Command (ARFC) builds land-based A2/AD — Fatah/Babur missiles plus real-time ISR — to deter BrahMos and enable preemptive precision strikes.
An in-depth analysis of how Pakistan’s new Hangor-class submarines will reshape naval strategy, using advanced AIP technology to extend its A2/AD frontier deep into the Indian Ocean.
On 15 August 2025, Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group Company Ltd launched the Pakistan Navy’s (PN) third Hangor-class air-independent propulsion (AIP)-equipped submarine (SSP) from the Shuangliu Base in Wuhan, China.
The formation of ‘Army Rocket Force Command’ (ARFC) cements the PA’s multi-year effort to build its independent stand-off range precision-strike capability as not just a doctrine, but an organized element with its own command structure, concept of operations, and objectives.
In the lead up to its special event commemorating 14 August (the day Pakistan was formed out of British India), the Pakistan Army (PA) revealed the Fatah-IV: a land-attack cruise missile (LACM) with a range of 750 km.
By inducting the Z-10ME-2, the Pakistan Army Aviation Corps could under go a shift towards focusing on low-level air power.
The Pakistan Army has officially inducted its first units of Z-10ME attack helicopters, closing a complex and often-frustrated search for a new gunship that spanned nearly 15 years.
The arrival of this modern Chinese platform is more than a simple hardware replacement…
On 31 July 2025, China launched a remote sensing satellite for Pakistan using a Kuaizhou-1A satellite launch vehicle (SLV) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
US policies in 2016-2017 prompted Pakistani defence planners to largely shut American – and many European – vendors out of the Pakistani defence market.