Pakistan Military & Defence

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - Indian media outlets are reading materials that show a sense of anxiety over the publication of a military-technical report in Pakistan, learned BulgarianMilitary.com. Read more: Pakistan Has Maintained Progress on Modernization Programs to Strengthen Its Military Forces The report said that Pakistani specialists…

MOSCOW, (BM) - Special forces from the Russian and Pakistani armies seized an urban area as part of the Friendship 2019 joint drills at the Molkino training range in the southern Krasnodar Region, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, according the press office of Russia’s Southern Military District statement. Read more: Pakistan and Russia Will Hold…

NEW DELHI, (BM) - A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, in less than a week, kill 50-125 million people - more than the death toll during all six years of World War II, and lead to global climate catastrophe, according to researchers in the US. A study by researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and Rutgers University…

NEW YORK, (BM) - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has held out a triple threat to the world if it does not put pressure on India on the Kashmir issue: a risk of a nuclear war, radicalisation of Muslims around the world and a bloody uprising in the area, learned BulgarianMilitary.com. Read more: Pakistan Has Maintained Progress on…

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - Despite its economic challenges, Pakistan has maintained progress on critical modernization programs to strengthen its conventional military forces, according to a recently revealed government document, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Defense News. Read more: Pakistan to Receive the Second Vessel from Dutch Damen in…

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - Dutch shipbuilder Damen has launched the second of two 2,300-ton corvettes on order for the Pakistan Navy (PN) at its facilities in Galati, Romania, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Defence 360 Europe. Read more: Pakistan Increased Its Defence Budget with 1,3% to $7,6 Billion in 2019-20 The PN announced on its…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on August 30 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com: Russia testing fundamentally new electronic warfare system Russia’s Radio-Electronic Technologies Group (KRET) is holding state trials of a next-generation electronic warfare system, Adviser to the KRET First Deputy CEO Vladimir Mikheyev…

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - After Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan visit to Ankara in early 2019, bilateral ties with Turkey have been further enhanced on military and strategic levels, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Defence 360 Europe. Being traditional allies, Turkey and Pakistan have a special rapport but their recent consolidation of…

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - The Government of Pakistan has announced a 2019–20 defence budget of PKR1.15 trillion (USD7.6 billion), a 1.3% increase over the revised military expenditure in 2018–19, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Jane`s. Read more: US Provides Technical Support to Pakistan`s Fleet of F-16 Totaling $125M The new defence budget –…

WASHINGTON, (BM) - The United States has approved $125 million for Pakistan to provide technical support to its fleet of F-16 aircraft, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting MenaFN. The announcement came just four days after Prime Minister Imran Khan's first official visit to Washington. Read more: Pakistan Has Planned the JF-17 Block 3’s…

KARACHI , (BM) - A Pakistani official confirmed on Friday that a foreign drone was seized from the country’s Chaghi district bordering Iran and Afghanistan, fuelling speculation among analysts that it likely belongs to Tehran, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Arab News. “A drone was found … in the Tuzgi Wadh area of the Chaghi district,”…

MOSCOW, (BM) - Russian and Pakistani special forces will hold joint military drills dubbed Friendship-2019 at the Molkino practice range near the city of Krasnodar in south Russia in early October, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting TASS. "The delegation of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan got acquainted with the sites…

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - Police in Pakistan have arrested an Islamist cleric whom the United States has designated as a global terrorist for his alleged role in the deadly 2008 attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting VOA News. Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group and head…

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - Pakistan has declined the request to open its airspace for Indian commercial flights and demanded that New Delhi first removes its military jets from the Pakistani-Indian border, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting GlobalSecurity and according Aviation Secretary Shahrukh Nusrat statement on Friday. "The Indian government…

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - The Pakistan Navy (PN) has received the second of two ATR-72 twin-engine turboprops converted into maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) under a contract signed in 2015, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Jane`s. In a 10 July press release Germany-based company Rheinland Air Service (RAS) said that it handed over the second…

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - Commander in Chief Russian Ground Forces General Oleg Salyukov called on COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa to discuss defence cooperation between the two countries and the regional security situation, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting private Pakistani TV channel Samaa. He also met with Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal…

ISLAMABAD, (BM) - The PAF has slated the JF-17 Block 3’s maiden flight for the end of 2019, learned BulgarianMilitary.com. It then expects to fly the fighter operationally in 2020. The PAF Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Mujahid Anwar Khan, said that the PAF will also procure 26 twin-seat JF-17Bs alongside the 50 Block 3s. …