Pakistan Increasingly Leans on Loitering Munitions

Published on July 4, 2024

Image showing four Pakistani loitering munitions, including the KaGeM V3, MP-300, MP-152, and Xpear MX-150.

In 2021, Quwa wrote an article inferring that Pakistan will likely adopt a loitering munitions strategy. Nearly four years later, it is evident that Pakistan is acquiring a wide range of loitering munitions and, that too with a strong emphasis on domestic production through in-house programs and partnerships with a number of foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEM). In other words, Pakistan has a substantive – or perhaps an ambitious – loitering munitions program underway.

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