Quwa podcasts & articles | Latest content & discussions

[FuturePAF]

There are times when it seems Pakistan's military has a Ukrainian advisor -- and this is one of them. The approach of delegating small UAS work to the private sector comes straight from Ukraine's playbook.

If you notice, the private sector's work right now is all geared toward loitering munitions, i.e., from drone design to RATO to piston engines.

I think the recent defence budget likely allocates A LOT of money for these LMs and the Pak military (via MoDP) told the private sector they're getting a big chunk of these deals if they can meet the pricing requirements.

So now, all these companies are absorbing the upfront cost of facilities, R&D (or ToT), and so on because they know they've got huge domestic orders lined up. Once they all recoup those upfront overhead costs, I just can't imagine how cheap their pricing will be for export due to the PKR. I think Pak's setting up to be a lowkey killer in the loitering munitions market.

Good, let’s hope they make impressive, globally competitive products, and win bids in the GCC and beyond.

 

[FuturePAF]

The people sent to do these surveys will also be the lower mediocre variety who form the core of the rot so any survey they do will be utterly useless.

True, a catch 22. Perhaps the Shogun will find skilled people, not from the rot, but perhaps even people he knows from the cream of the crop to do this work. In the book on Meiji japan’s transformation, I’m not sure who, but whomever from Japan sent people abroad to identify foreign experts. Hopefully we have people who can identify the people best able to identify talent. People who can select the ultimate selectors, as it were.