Pakistan’s defence industry recently took the wraps off two new jet-powered one-way attack drones – the Woot-Tech HiMark-25 and the “Baaz Delta” by Global Industrial Defence Solutions (GIDS).
These new munitions are, at their core, relatively low-cost cruise missiles created by integrating loitering-munition platforms with miniature turbojet engines. Similar weapons have already been used by Russia in Ukraine (Geran-3 and Geran-5), while others are entering production in Western Europe (MBDA One-Way Effector or OWE).
The intent behind these jet-powered one-way attack drones (OWAD) or OWEs is to provide a long-range, precision-strike option that is scalable enough to deploy in numbers and provision rapidly at lower costs, at least compared to larger, traditional cruise missiles like the Babur-series or even precision-guided surface-to-surface missiles (SSM) like the Fatah-1 or 2.
The two systems reflect Pakistan’s continuing investment in asymmetrical strike technologies, building on earlier reveals of Shahed-style and several other loitering munition platforms.
In addition, the product reveals build on an earlier Market Intelligence (MINT) analysis by Quwa (from November 2025) that identified Pakistan as having all the groundwork to pursue OWE development.
In that analysis, this author stated: Pakistan is, perhaps more unintentionally than systematically, developing systems that could, in theory, readily become OWEs. However, it doesn’t appear that a cohesive strategy is in place to integrate these systems for the OWE role.”
In the same analysis, this author found that, at the time, Pakistan likely did not clearly or distinctly categorize OWEs as a requirement, leading to a lack of tri-services coordination and siloed work that could inadvertently overlap with such munitions (but not properly focus on leveraging their advantages).
However, today the Pakistani defence industry is actively moving into the jet-powered one-way attack drone/loitering munition (OWE) market. It also stands to reason that these programs are driven by Pakistani requirements, which are increasingly drawing on new intelligence-driven targeting systems (e.g., satellites and imaging intelligence, electronic intelligence or ELINT, and traditional measures like joint air-and-surface/maritime radar feeds).
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Woot-Tech HiMark-25(TJ)
The first of these new OWEs is the HiMark-25(TJ), a turbojet-powered variant of the HiMark-25 propeller-driven loitering munition.
Industry sources told Quwa that the HiMark-25(TJ) offers a range of 250 km, with a cruising speed of 240 km/h and a dash speed of 320 km/h. It offers 60 minutes of endurance and a flight ceiling of 15,000 ft.
