Pakistan’s First Home-Built Drone Engines Point to a Cheaper, Bigger Strike Arsenal

The Alsons Group, a Karachi industrial conglomerate better known for auto parts and electronics, used Eurosatory 2026 in Paris to unveil what it called Pakistan’s first domestically manufactured uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) engines, built through a new in-house division named Advanced Kinetic Aerospace Labs. The stand carried a family of four small piston engines pitched … Read more

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June 23, 2026
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Pakistan Announces 17.65% Defence Budget Increase, Gains Constrained by Weaker Rupee

Pakistan’s PKR 3 trillion (about $10.76 billion U.S.) defence budget for 2026-2027 is the largest it has ever set in dollar terms. But a weakening rupee, an import-priced procurement bill, and a new reliance on provincial funding complicate the headline figure.

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June 15, 2026
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Beyond Denial: How Hangor Anchors Pakistan’s 11-Submarine Roadmap to Build the Region’s Most Feared Underwater Fleet

The Pakistan Navy’s (PN) first Hangor-class submarine, PNS/M Hangor, arrived at Karachi on 11 June 2026, where it was received at the PN Dockyard in a ceremony led by Commander Pakistan Fleet, Vice Admiral Abdul Munib (Dawn). The arrival came six weeks after the boat’s commissioning at Sanya, China, on 30 April, an event attended … Read more

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June 12, 2026
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Ukraine’s New $1M Ballistic Interceptor Could Upend the Cost of Modern Warfare

Ukraine’s Fire Point has reworked its FP-7 ballistic missile into the low-cost FP-7.x interceptor at the heart of Project Freya. The deeper lesson for Pakistan lies less in the missile than in the private-sector, foreign-financed model that produced it — and in the import-dependent air defence it could one day address.

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June 11, 2026
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