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India flight-tested an Advanced Agni missile with MIRV from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island on 8 May – the second MIRV-capable Agni test after Mission Divyastra in March 2024, with the PIB’s confirmatory language and SFC involvement suggesting the system is approaching operational induction.
The post India Flight-Tests Advanced Agni Missile With MIRV System for Second Time first appeared on Quwa.
One year after the 7 May 2025 air battle, the claim that PAF used Chinese XS-3 datalinks to guide PL-15E missiles via Erieye AWACS has become the default explanation. Tracing the claim back to its origins tells a different story.
The post How the AWACS-Guided BVR Narrative Was Built – and What the Evidence Actually Shows first appeared on Quwa.
Türkiye’s MSB R&D Centre unveiled the Güçhan – a 42,000-lbf afterburning turbofan with six prototypes produced and qualification tests scheduled for 2026 – at SAHA EXPO, raising questions about its relationship to TEI’s officially sanctioned TF35000 KAAN engine program under SSB.
The post Türkiye Unveils 42,000-lbf Güçhan Turbofan at SAHA 2026 first appeared on Quwa.
Ukrainian defence company Fire Point published the full system concept for Project Freya on May 14, according to Militarnyi and Ukrainska Pravda. Freya is a pan-European air and missile defence system designed to intercept ballistic missiles – including Russia’s Iskander-M – at what Fire Point says would be a fraction of the cost of existing … Read more
The post Ukraine’s Fire Point Reveals Architecture for Freya – a Low-Cost Ballistic Missile Defence Interceptor Built from S-300 Heritage first appeared on Quwa.
DRDL conducted a 1,200-second ground test of a full-scale actively cooled scramjet combustor at its SCPT facility in Hyderabad on 9 May – nearly doubling the January 2026 run-time and graduating from subscale validation to a flight-representative configuration under India’s Hypersonic Cruise Missile Development Program.
The post DRDO Runs Full-Scale Scramjet Combustor for 1,200 Seconds in Hyderabad Ground Test first appeared on Quwa.
Pakistan is accelerating defence modernisation across cruise missiles, attack helicopters, and fighter jets. Quwa’s Defence Uncut panel unpacks the Fatah IV test, JF-17 Block 4/PFX direction, the Z-10ME evaluation, PAF training gaps, and the Link 17 data link debate.
The post Pakistan’s Defence Modernization Is Accelerating, But Where Is It Actually Heading? first appeared on Quwa.
Turkey’s defence advancements are genuine, anchored in decades of gradual R&D investment and Western industrial integration — but without consortium partners like Pakistan, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia to distribute the overhead, the economics of programs like TFX may never close.
The post Turkey’s Defence Industry Is Real, but Scale Will Slow It first appeared on Quwa.
Pakistan’s loitering munition portfolio is growing fast, but the designs are too complex for the country’s industrial base. The Shahed model – fiberglass moulds, piston engines, truck-mounted launchers, and distributed assembly – is the path to the 10,000-unit scale that would reshape the cost-exchange ratio against India’s air defences.
The post The Shahed Blueprint: How Pakistan Needs to Lean on Small Factories for Drones first appeared on Quwa.
On 14 May, Pakistan’s Army Rocket Force Command test-fired the Fatah-4, a 750 km-range ground-launched cruise missile derived from the strategic Babur platform — the latest in a series of conventional variants spawned from Pakistan’s nuclear-capable missile families.
The post Pakistan Army Tests Fatah-4 Ground-Launched Cruise Missile first appeared on Quwa.
This Industry Brief is a follow-up to Quwa’s November 2025 Market Intelligence analysis on Pakistan’s OWE market. In November, Quwa assessed that Pakistan was developing OWE-adjacent capabilities unintentionally. By April 2026, both private-sector and state-owned vendors had revealed dedicated jet-powered OWE designs, marking a deliberate shift.
The post Industry Brief: Pakistan’s One-Way Effector (OWE) Market – Six-Month Update first appeared on Quwa.