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Monthly Report: The JF-17 in 2017 and Outlook for 2018 Quwa Premium

by Bilal Khan March 1, 2018 204Views 0Comments

Quwa Premium’s Monthly Report for February 2018 provides a detailed overview of the leading events affecting the development of the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighter program. It starts with discussing the factors that led to the development of the…

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Pakistan will stick with the Erieye AEW&C; add different ISR aircraft for other roles Quwa Premium

by Bilal Khan February 26, 2018 231Views 0Comments

In light of Saab revealing the GlobalEye Swing Role Surveillance System (SRSS) platform, one might ask if the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), which flies four Saab Erieye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft with another batch on order, could proceed to…

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Pakistan Army Aviation’s High-Altitude Capabilities Quwa Premium

by Bilal Khan February 20, 2018 267Views 0Comments

The Airbus Helicopters H125M Fennec forms the mainstay of the Pakistan Army Aviation Corps’ (PAA) high-altitude operations fleet. On 26 January 2018, two PAA H125Ms were deployed to execute the rescue of two European climbers on Nanga Parbat, requiring both aircraft to…

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Pakistan-Russia Relations: Tempering Expectations Quwa Premium

by Bilal Khan February 16, 2018 228Views 0Comments

This is an overview of the current state of Pakistan’s bilateral relations with Russia in terms of foreign relations, economic/trade relations and defence ties. It is too early to expect robust bilateral defence relations, but even if that were to come into…

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Airbus could offer military variants of the A320neo

by Bilal Khan February 7, 2018 2945Views 3Comments

At the 2018 Singapore Air Show, Airbus Defence & Space said it was considering the prospect of offering MPA and ISR variants of the A320neo.

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The Sonmiani WTR supports domestic munition development Quwa Premium

by Bilal Khan February 5, 2018 268Views 0Comments

Introduction On 02 February, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) announced that it established an instrumented Weapon Test Range (WTR) at the Sonmiani Firing Range. This is an important induction for the PAF – and the Pakistani armed forces as a whole –…

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Pakistan will participate in SCO ‘Peace Mission 2018’ exercise

by Bilal Khan February 1, 2018 2668Views 9Comments

According to Pakistan’s Ambassador to Russia, Kazi Khalilullah, says that Pakistan will participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) exercise ‘Peace Mission 2018’ in September.

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Monthly Report: Review of Turkey’s efforts to sell the T129 ATAK to Pakistan Quwa Premium

by Bilal Khan February 1, 2018 256Views 0Comments

On his official visit to Turkey in November 24-26, 2017, Pakistan’s Minister of Defence Production (MoDP) Rana Tanveer Hussain stated that a potential Pakistani purchase of T129 ATAK attack helicopters from Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) was “90 percent complete” and that Pakistan…

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Pakistan’s Defence Minister looks to Russia and China for new arms

by Bilal Khan January 29, 2018 2713Views 68Comments

Pakistan’s Minister of Defence Khurram Dastgir Khan said that Pakistan is engaging with Russia for the supply of new military hardware.

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Pakistan’s submarine fleet expansion requires genuine submarine rescue capability Quwa Premium

by Bilal Khan January 26, 2018 275Views 0Comments

Introduction The core element of the Pakistan Navy’s long-term development efforts is the expansion of its submarine fleet, which is slated to swell to as many as 13 ships equipped with air-independent propulsion (AIP) from the three – i.e. Khalid-class (Agosta 90B)…