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Aerospace
The common units for measuring distance on land are miles or kilometres (km). However, for marine or air (space) navigation, the preferred unit is nautical miles (NM). Similarly, speed is measured in km/hour or miles/hr for land vehicles, but the ships and aircraft use nautical miles/hr or knots.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza14 Oct 20261 min read
Geopolitics
Commercial aviation is built around an unusually powerful idea: movement without borders. An aircraft can cross several countries in a matter of hours, carry hundreds of people, operate under a civilian registration, use ordinary airports and appear in schedules alongside thousands of completely routine flights.
Noor Abbas Mirza09 Oct 20266 min read
Industry
In Pakistan’s increasingly connected aviation community, a photograph of a military or VIP aircraft can reveal far more than an aircraft itself. This article examines how OPSEC applies to military aviation, why seemingly harmless details can become significant when combined, and where plane spotters, photographers and social-media enthusiasts should draw the line between documenting aviation and unintentionally exposing sensitive information.
Noor Abbas Mirza08 Oct 20264 min read
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 20268 min read
Analysis
The IAF pilots deserve better commanders and leaders than the ones they get. Loss of life and career for many professionals is becoming a common practice in the 4th largest airfoce of the world.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza04 Oct 20263 min read
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 20262 min read
Aerospace
Fifth gen aircraft had qualities like stealth and sensor fusion, but the emerging technologies have enabled the advanced geometric designs for all-aspect stealth of 6th gen.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza02 Oct 20262 min read
Aerospace
A simple explanation of network-centric warfare across multiple domains and expanded battlespace across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza30 Sept 20261 min read
Aerospace
Indian media's Op Sindoor propaganda machine is working non-stop since May 2025 for more than a year now. This is a simple take on PAF vs IAF's 8-nil score to put the record straight about Indian losses, including 4 Rafale.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza25 Sept 20263 min read
Industry
Pakistan’s drone revolution requires more than aircraft, operators and technology it requires a coordinated regulatory and security framework. This article examines how the CAA, Armed Forces, national-security institutions, industry and training providers can work together to build a professional, secure and future-ready UAS workforce for Pakistan’s civil and military sectors.
Noor Abbas Mirza22 Sept 20268 min read
Analysis
The Advanced Eagle was shot down by IR missile and the technical analysis points to systems like Barq 1/2. The silent interception is a serious threat against modern fighter aircraft that are optimised for radar based missiles and Electronic Warfare.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza21 Sept 20263 min read
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 20263 min read
Aerospace
The duel between knights of the sky has become almost obsolete. BVR fight has replaced the traditional dogfight.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza16 Sept 20262 min read
Aerospace
Pakistan’s drone revolution will require far more than aircraft and operators. As unmanned systems reshape civil aviation, industry and modern warfare, the country must develop a skilled UAS workforce capable of designing, operating, maintaining, regulating, securing and integrating these systems. The real strategic advantage will belong not simply to those who possess drones, but to those who possess the human capital to turn them into sustainable national capability.
Noor Abbas Mirza12 Sept 20264 min read
Industry
India is wiring startups into procurement. The Gulf is building computer estates. Pakistan has the talent and is missing the plumbing underneath it.
Maham Fazal11 Sept 20266 min read
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 20265 min read
Geopolitics
Washington's security umbrella has covered Japan for seventy-five years. With no US carrier left in the Indo-Pacific, Tokyo has decided to stop relying on it
Arslan Baloch09 Sept 20264 min read
Industry
The next challenge is not teaching more people to fly drones. It is training the operators, maintainers and regulators who turn hardware into capability.
Noor Abbas Mirza08 Sept 20265 min read
Analysis
History textbooks on both sides skip Rann of Kutch, the botched arbitration, and India's own vow to respond 'at a time and place of her own choosing.' Historical timeline shows that the initial aggressor was India, contrary to the belief of South Asian intelligentsia.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza06 Sept 202610 min read
Aerospace
Fifth generation, sixth generation, and what the labels actually describe, plus why the pilot has not been designed out yet
Ahsen Niaz03 Sept 20265 min read
Analysis
Every generation declares the manned fighter obsolete. The F-4 was supposed to be the last one and the drone argument is making the same mistake.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza02 Sept 20265 min read
Geopolitics
What India misread in May 2025 was not Pakistan's will, but its preparedness. Operation Sindoor failed at the first step of any air campaign.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza30 Aug 20268 min read
Aerospace
Accident Rate is not Calculated in Years, but Hours Flown
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza30 Aug 20265 min read
Aerospace
Land, air, sea, space and cyber were once separate campaigns. Modern doctrine treats them as one problem and most militaries are not built for it
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza29 Aug 20263 min read
Industry
Operational security assumed you could control what leaves the base. Everyone now carries a phone, and the assumption no longer holds.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza29 Aug 20264 min read
Analysis
Not an isolated incident; Tejas dilemma for IAF and HAL
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza29 Aug 20266 min read
Geopolitics
A country cannot buy deterrence it cannot afford. How economic capacity sets the ceiling on what a military can actually do.
Sqn Ldr (R) Ali Hamza28 Aug 20265 min read
