Monthly Defense News – October 2023
Nigeria Receives First T129 Attack Helicopters from Turkey. Thailand Looks to Pivot S26T Purchase to a New Frigate Instead.
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JF-17 Thunder: Giving 20 Important Years with Decades More to Come
It has been a little over 20 years since the maiden flight of the first JF-17 prototype. Since then, the fighter has undergone multiple iterations and, in turn, become Pakistan’s workhorse multirole fighter aircraft. When it signed onto the Super-7/FC-1 project in 1994, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) set out to acquire a low-cost, but […]
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Analysis: Is Pakistan’s Next Strategic Focus on Boosting Munitions Output?
Ukraine’s struggles are exposing the necessity of having a reliable domestic munitions production capability.
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The Quiet Rise of the Pakistan Navy (Part 2)
Admiral Ashraf will inherit an expansive modernization effort across the PN’s surface, sub-surface, and aviation domains, one that is arguably unprecedented in scope and complexity in the PN’s history.
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The Quiet Rise of the Pakistan Navy (Part 1)
Admiral Ashraf will inherit an expansive modernization effort across the PN’s surface, sub-surface, and aviation domains, one that is arguably unprecedented in scope and complexity in the PN’s history.
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Monthly Defense News – September 2023
India mulls second indigenous aircraft carrier. Pakistan’s GIDS reveals indigenous turbojet engine for cruise missile and drone applications.
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Pakistan Navy Makes Gains in Surface Combatant Programs
Key Pakistan Navy (PN) surface combatant programs have started materializing, namely its Babur-class (MILGEM) corvette and Yarmouk-class Batch-II offshore patrol vessel (OPV) programs. On September 23, the PN commissioned its first of four Babur-class multi-mission corvettes, PNS Babur, at Istanbul Shipyard. The corvettes were ordered as part of a $1.5 billion USD contract with ASFAT […]
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Analysis: Why is Pakistan Pursuing the TF-X Kaan Fighter? (Part 2)
In August, Turkey’s Deputy Defense Minister, Celal Sami Tüfekçi, said that Turkish officials will visit Pakistan to discuss the latter’s potential entry into Turkey’s next-generation fighter aircraft (NGFA) program, the TF-X KAAN. Moreover, Tüfekçi revealed that nearly 200 Pakistani engineers were already involved in the KAAN (likely through Turkish Aerospace’s [TAI] local office in Pakistan). […]
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Analysis: Why is Pakistan Pursuing the TF-X Kaan Fighter?
What does Turkey have to gain from letting Pakistan join the KAAN? Would Pakistan be an asset – or a liability?
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Monthly Defense News Recap – August 2023
Several months after greenlighting the transfer of third-party F-16s and training from Europe, the U.S. will now directly provide F-16 flight training to Ukrainian pilots.
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