Introduction
China is a marquee element in Pakistan’s foreign relations landscape since the 1960s, having resulted in a spate of big-ticket defence procurement and, since 2015, significant economic interaction via the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). However, with an apparent – but ultimately,…
By Evan Butler-Jones
Director, Defense Product Line, Aviation & Defense Business Unit, IFS
With ever-evolving equipment, budgets and geo-political landscapes, military organizations are having to constantly stay on top of technical, tactical and political developments happening in the defense sector. Moving in-sync with advances in…
Introduction
On January 06 photos emerged purporting that a NORINCO VT4 main battle tank (MBT) was in Pakistan, ostensibly for trials for an apparent Pakistan Army bid for an off-the-shelf MBT to augment its growing – albeit slowly – force of Heavy…
UkrOboronProm is promoting the progress Antonov made through 2017 with the An-132D and the promise of reviving the An-70
The Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) has invited bids for integrating the F-35 Lightning II to the Turkey’s Air Force Information System (HVBS)
In a promotional video for the breaking-ground event of the Air University Aerospace and Aviation campus in Kamra, Pakistan showed-off drone design concepts.
Introduction
On January 03, the Pakistan Navy announced that it test-fired a new anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) with land-attack capabilities, the “Harba.” The dual-ASCM/land-attack cruise missile (LACM) was fired from an Azmat-class fast attack craft (FAC), the PNS Himmat. Seemingly based on…
Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to taking-over the CMN FS56 fast attack craft it had originally bought for the Lebanese Navy.
Introduction
In his speech during the AirTech ’17 conference in December 2017 at Air University Islamabad, the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sohail Aman, stated that Pakistan would send two astronauts into space…
The Pakistani government has greenlit the construction of a new shipyard in Gwadar, the country’s new deep-sea port in the Arabian Sea.