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Pakistan Tests Fatah-2 Extended-Range Ballistic Missile
Pakistan tests Fatah-2 ER on 13 October 2026. Quwa examines NESCOM’s ballistic missile development, ARFC’s conventional strike plans, and hypersonic claims.
Why Pakistan Has Trouble Financing Its Defence Requirements (& First Steps to Solving Them)
Pakistan's FY2026-27 budget spends $28.9bn on debt interest against $10.8bn on defence. How domestic debt, banks and a narrow tax base limit arms procurement.
Pakistan Test Fires New Fatah-4 ER Land-Attack Cruise Missile
Pakistan test-fired the Fatah-4 ER cruise missile on 6 October 2026. ISPR withheld its range, but footage shows a larger airframe with external folding wings.
Photo Emerges of Pakistan’s 5th Changhe Z-10ME Attack Helicopter
On 25 September, a photo emerged on Chinese social media of an apparent fifth Pakistan Army Aviation Corps (PAA) Z-10ME-02 attack helicopter undergoing test flights.
Pakistan’s Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT) Showcases New Drone Production Facility
Heavy Industries Taxila opened its new Unmanned Aerial Systems Factory (UASF) to media on 06 September, revealing the R-020 and R-040 VTOL drones, a tailless delta loitering munition,…
POF’s New Shahed-Style Loitering Munition Reveals the Pakistan Army’s Deep-Strike Plan
A Shahed-style munition at POF, HIT's D-248 and Ukraine's FP-1 point to one Pakistan Army goal: 2,000–3,000 km of low-cost strike reach.
Heavy Industries Taxila Reveals D-248 and S-369, Pakistan’s Longest-Range Loitering Munitions
Heavy Industries Taxila revealed the D-248 and S-369 at the 2026 Indus RAS Expo – Pakistan's longest-range loitering munitions, with up to 3,000 km reach.
Field Marshal Asim Munir Visits Türkiye for Defence Talks as Ankara–Islamabad Ties Deepen
Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir met President Erdoğan and defence officials in Ankara during a two-day Türkiye visit focused on defence cooperation.
Operation Shaban: A Timeline of Pakistan’s Counterinsurgency Efforts in Balochistan
Pakistani security forces are pressing Operation Shaban, a joint Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps and Balochistan Police offensive running against the TTP around Ziarat and the BLA around Lasbela…
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Pakistan Buries Its Defence Tenders Across 40 Channels. Only Incumbents Can Find Them.
Quwa’s Pulse Check Season 1 Episode 12 takes up the question raised by Pakistan’s fragmented procurement publishing – whether a supplier without a dedicated procurement desk can see the defence market at all, and what DIPRA does to that picture.
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Unpacking Pakistan’s Pivot to Low-Cost, High-Speed Attack Drones
Pakistan’s Fatah-4, Sarfarosh and jet attack drones examined alongside Russia’s Geran-4 and Geran-5, Ukrainian interceptors and India’s air defence.
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Demand Tracker: Reports of Azeri Loitering Munitions Sales to Pakistan
Azerbaijani media report that DEFTECH (Blackyard) sold DT-001 mothership drones with F-1500 and F-5000 loitering munitions to Pakistan at ADEX 2026. This brief examines three explanations: a JF-17 offset, a small evaluation buy, or a route to licensed production in Pakistan.
Demand Tracker: Pakistan Army Light Armoured Vehicle Procurement (Sept. 2026)
Dongfeng armoured vehicles and MaxxPro MRAPs are in use with the Pakistan Army in KPK, but HIT Hisaar and MHIL Liger fielding lags. Quwa tracks why.
Demand Tracker: Is Pakistan Replacing Its Alouette III Helicopters With Airbus H125s?
The PAF and PN appear to be inducting Airbus H125 light utility helicopters, but France has reported no helicopter exports to Pakistan since 2021. This brief examines where the airframes could be coming from and why a CDF-led common helicopter program could deliver the scale and offsets that…
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Pakistan Buries Its Defence Tenders Across 40 Channels. Only Incumbents Can Find Them.
Quwa’s Pulse Check Season 1 Episode 12 takes up the question raised by Pakistan’s fragmented procurement publishing – whether a supplier without a dedicated procurement desk can see the defence market at all, and what DIPRA does to that picture.
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