Pakistan UAVs News & Discussions

[Ali_Baba]

It does highlight that local manufacturing has been achieved and demonstrated.

Something that design centres can eventually leverage. A nascent ecosystem is forming.

Can you share the 4 engines pics or details?

The correct order is a) invest into universities and education to build a large pipeline of engineers, b) to build a local manufacturing ecosystem of other peoples designs, get manufacturing sites set up, people trained and still maintain defensive capability, c) work on selective parts substitution of strategic items eg GaN etc. d) At the "mid point of the manufacturing buildout stage", create "design centers" to create new designs that these manufacturing sites can then build using a combination of COTS and local manufactured items. This is the approach Türkiye took and is why they have had so much success.

Sure a more fine grained list can be done, but this is a start.

 

[Bilal]

the predator relied on a 114hp rotax plant, the tb2, on the rotax 912 with 100 ish HP.

Benchmarked it against our needs for S3 170 HP.

 

[Bilal]

The correct order is a) invest into universities and education to build a large pipeline of engineers, b) to build a local manufacturing ecosystem of other peoples designs, get manufacturing sites set up, people trained and still maintain defensive capability, c) work on selective parts substitution of strategic items eg GaN etc. d) At the "mid point of the manufacturing buildout stage", create "design centers" to create new designs that these manufacturing sites can then build using a combination of COTS and local manufactured items. This is the approach Türkiye took and is why they have had so much success.

Sure a more fine grained list can be done, but this is a start.

Our way of doing things. We will get there (eventually, following a very random path, full of pitfalls and stupid avoidable failures):

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[Desprado123]

If am not wrong all our uavc drones will be for defense purpose but real investment would be on suicide drones.

 

[puttputt]

Found it:
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The Alsons Group Unveils Pakistan's First Indigenous UAV Engine at Eurosatory 2026 — Global Defense Insight

The Alsons Group launched Pakistan's first locally developed and manufactured UAV engine at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, marking a major milestone for the country's aerospace and defence industry.

defensetalks.com

This confirms a quiet but evidently big shift in nat-sec policy. Some weeks ago MoDP called a meeting with private UAS firms (co-chaired with a Lt. Gen, so a real meeting) to tell them they’ve got the reins to develop and build for armed forces requirements. Basically, SOEs were not necessarily going to get in the way for certain classes of UAS development and production. Between AKAL, Woot Tech, Sysverve and a bunch of others, it seems they meant it.

 

[rafale]

It does highlight that local manufacturing has been achieved and demonstrated.

Something that design centres can eventually leverage. A nascent ecosystem is forming.

Can you share the 4 engines pics or details?

Actually, Pakistan has enough local manufacturing to make lot of UAV parts in house. For suicide, one way drones, you can reduce the quality standards a bit too because its not a 100 million F-16 that is expected to come back.

Government just needs to prioritize the right sectors and ensure enough business is fed to them and UAV tech and parts, 90% Pakistan can create and manufacture in house.

 

[rafale]

This confirms a quiet but evidently big shift in nat-sec policy. Some weeks ago MoDP called a meeting with private UAS firms (co-chaired with a Lt. Gen, so a real meeting) to tell them they’ve got the reins to develop and build for armed forces requirements. Basically, SOEs were not necessarily going to get in the way for certain classes of UAS development and production. Between AKAL, Woot Tech, Sysverve and a bunch of others, it seems they meant it.

The barrier to entry for UAVs/Drone manufacturing is very low......which is why most governments are awarding contracts and funding to private sectors only. You just need to ensure that enough orders are placed for the private sector investment to make it feasible.

For Pakistan this is a very easy problem to solve.