Former Fighter Pilot
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Ahsen Niaz flew fighters in the PAF before moving into technology. He writes on airpower employment, regional security, and the gap between published capability figures and operational reality.
Analysis
Pakistan will not get an F-35, and the KAAN is not yet an aircraft it can buy. The fifth-generation fighter, when it comes, will be a Chinese J-35A, bought the way Pakistan buys: after India moves, and on Chinese credit.
Ahsen Niaz06 Oct 2026
Analysis
On Indian Air Force Day, the problem worth examining is not fleet size. It is what happens when a numerically superior force is drawn into a space where numbers stop mattering.
Ahsen Niaz03 Oct 2026
Analysis
A Saudi F-15 reportedly downed over Marib is a reminder that the standoff-range dominance of modern airpower is an illusion. What Pakistan brings to the Saudi–Turkey Mecca defence pact isn't hardware or a nuclear umbrella; it is decades of combat experience that oil money can't buy.
Ahsen Niaz18 Sept 2026
Aerospace
What happens inside a fighter cockpit during BVR air combat? Follow a fighter pilot through a 120-second air intercept, from radar and RWR detection to targeting, air-to-air missile launch and the fight to survive.
Ahsen Niaz09 Sept 2026
Aerospace
Fifth generation, sixth generation, and what the labels actually describe, plus why the pilot has not been designed out yet
Ahsen Niaz03 Sept 2026
