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Sorry for the late reply. I do have some of the publications (the titles) saved. Will share them soon However, they are from the 2016-17ish period. Back then the NRDI did not exist but its constituent labs were there. So..

While the Indians have a tendency to exaggerate, this is exactly what you can gain by having other countries depend on you for their training needs. It will be in Pakistan's greatest national interest to maintain the qualitative superiority of its air force and keep the Arab countries dependant...

The main problem is that Karachi is poorly understood in far off Islamabad and the power centers of the Punjab. The rest of Pakistan does not understand the underlying socioeconomic and political dynamics of Karachi. They just think that it is a simple problem of the people of Karachi voting...

We CAN NOT design locally. Period. The NRDI's ship design workforce is specially mediocre at best. They can undertake modification/complex repair/rebuild tasks but not original design. The greater emphasis is on churning out pathetic and useless research papers rather than on actual R&D. I have...

Although there is insufficient evidence to say that the PAF leadership displayed timidity or cowardliness on Feb 27 (they simply may have done what they did owing to knowledge that we're not privy to yet), the possibility cannot be ruled out. During the '65 war, formation commanders such as Nosy...

The Navy's recent initiatives and projects, such as the NRDI will serve as a game changer. As we speak, routine day-to-day improvements/modifications are being made to equipment to offset the effects caused by lack of OEM support. This is obviously in addition to the original R&D work being...

Pakistanis are pathetic when it comes to design aesthetics and presentation of data/information. Also, we might be able to download the satellite's imagery if we have its downlink frequency. But that would require a proper SDR receiver setup (e.g. Ettus N210), antennas and some amount of coding...

Yikes. May have to go in hiding. :lol:

Yes. There appears to be a genuine realization of the importance of SATCOM among the military policymakers. The SATCOM-capable Sea Eagle for the PN is one such example. And the PN probably has the heaviest requirement for secure SATCOM among the 3 services owing to the distances generally...

YES. YES. EXACTLY. *elated* I just wish I could share some anecdotes about the actual decision-making process that goes into such genius business ideas. Have some genuine horror stories. But alas, national secorty. Don't want a black Vigo at my door.

I happened to stumble across an archived link to all of the Pakistan's 5-Year Plans from the 1st plan in 1955 to the MTDF for 2005-10. I'm sharing the link here. The plans are divided into chapters and the link is really slow. It would give interesting insight into past economic policy...

No sir, not open source. NATIONAL SECORTY. The SUPARCO pavilion at IDEAS had a display of images from the PRSS-1 and PakTES-1A design and manufacturing phase as well as the imagery that these satellites had taken. It was of reasonable quality - better than I had ever imagined. Among the...

That is most likely the case. But IMO, all these hopes and efforts for export appear to be just a futile exercise. Just some 'movement' for the sake of appearing to be doing something - to mask the fact that we are terribly uncompetitive as far as the exports of such systems are concerned. And...

These boats don't have names since they are not actually commissioned units. They're known as X-Craft 01,02 & 03. One of these was lost with all hands at sea during an SSGN training mission in 1994-95. The entire crew (15 men) made a 'wet' escape through the main hatch from a depth of about 30...

Don't see any weapons pylons on the Burraq. This looks like the recon/ISR variant that GIDS put up for show at IDEAS 2018. I remember examing the under-wing areas of the Burraq on display there. There were no weapon pylons (obviously) but brackets/mounting areas were present and clearly defined.

We can probably expect something along the lines of the Larkana/Jurrat/Jalalat class gunboats in the sub-500 tons range. These above mentioned boats were built indigenously in the 90s and 00s and we can probably expect modern shipbuilding techniques and low-observability features to make their...

Oh boy. Never could have imagined finding another Kelly Johnson fan here. You're right. The problem with our people is that they'd rather spend time in mudslinging the Indians or watching and discussing Haqeeqat TV rather than engaging in constructive and thought-provoking discourse. (Great...

Absolutely true. We have such a hunger for good/feel-good stories that we naturally look towards the one area where our 'achievements' are of any meaning of significance - the military. The sight of the tanks and missiles rolling down the Shakarparian Parade Ground remains perhaps the only sight...

Hehehe. I could give you a real life example but I can not for obvious reasons. The problem is very much there.

The fact that it isn't included in the PSDP allocations means that it is not being funded by the govt through 'official' channels. However, I have seen some open-source documents mentioning the project. It is mentioned as PakSLV. This leads me to believe that the basic R&D is going on (read...