Pakistan's Drone & Cruise Missile Surge — Copying Ukraine? | Defence Uncut S2E10

Pakistan has quietly started building the unglamorous parts of modern warfare — the engines, munitions and cheap cruise missiles that win a long fight. In this episode, Bilal Khan and Arslan Khan open with the Alsons Group's reveal of Pakistan's first home-built UAV engines at Eurosatory 2026 (via its new AKAL division), then dig into why the private sector is now central to Pakistan's loitering-munition push, and how the global move toward low-cost strike — the MBDA Crossbow, Russia's Banderol, the Powered JDAM — lines up with Pakistan's Fatah, Babur, Uzab and Khaem programs.In the solo Q&A, Bilal answers listener questions on how fast Pakistan can field robotic ground vehicles like the NRTC Heather UGV, the Western-insurgency vs Eastern-front split, and why Army Aviation might be Pakistan's most under-used branch — with a look at the Turkish Aerospace T625 Gökbey.In this episode:Alsons / AKAL UAV engines and the licensing-vs-indigenous debateWhy Pakistan's military is roping in the private sector for drones and munitionsFibre optics, solid fuel and the case for mass over prestige projectsThe low-cost cruise-missile shift, from Crossbow to Fatah-4NRTC Heather UGV and the limits of the Ukraine robotics model in PakistanArmy Aviation, the T625 Gökbey, and low-altitude cruise-missile strikeGot a question for a future solo cast? Email [email protected] or [email protected] more analysis at https://quwa.org