Usman Ansari

Usman Ansari is the Pakistan correspondent for Defense News.

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It looks like Pakistan bought a Chinese spy ship. What does it do?

The ship looks to be dimensionally comparable to Norway’s intelligence gathering vessels Eger and Marjata, Sweden’s Artemis, or Germany’s Oste class.

4 months ago

Pakistani firm shows off new drone during Saudi defense show

GIDS touts the drone as able to operate autonomously with artificial intelligence-enabled payloads.

6 months ago

Pakistan’s Air Force says it has a hypersonic-capable missile

The service said the capability is meant to help create a “potent force and to rebalance the power dynamics in the region.”

Pakistani defense conglomerate unveils new drone, missiles at IDEF

Global Industrial and Defence Solutions showed off its Faaz-RF and Faaz-IIR medium-range, air-to-air missiles, as well as the Shahpar III combat UAV.

Pakistan Unveils VLF Submarine Communications Facility

Pakistan on Tuesday unveiled a very low frequency (VLF) communication facility that will enable it to communicate with deployed submarines.

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