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They have made the recent clashes more than control of control and the border with India has increased the test more than Pakistan’s defense commitment. They have also demonstrated the endurance and capacity of unmanned air vehicles (UAV) to do health -related terms. The same drone can overcome competition regions for hours and can stream real time imaging. It can also provide pay loads in one meter of its target. This should affect the adoption of a platform for peaceful use in citizens’ fields.
Resources barriers and difficult regions often slow down traditional surveillance and reaction in Pakistan. Military grade UAV now offers clear maps for agriculture, protection, devastation, infrastructure inspection and emergency supply applications.
In the plains of Punjab, drones once tried to wander, now they serve small landowners. Multi -spectrous sensors detect the stress of crops, shortage of nutrients and pest outbreaks before they are shown in the bare eyes. Thousands of acres of preliminary field tests improved production and reduced agricultural chemical costs by about one -third.
Protecting forests and natural resources offers another opportunity. Satellite images could lose illegal logging or initial fire hotspot due to cloud core, but drones equipped with high resolution and thermal cameras made Islamabad Model Forestry Park a map in a pilot project, which signs the heat and the heat of the day instead of the day.
Patrol teams, which once run at a mile distance, can now respond in real times, reducing resources loss and implementation costs. Scale of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh can save the need for agriculture and urban water supply.
The flood of 2022 has indicated another use. In a partnership with UNICEF, health officials in Sindh deployed drones to sprinkle laroside on water ponds. The ground teams, who were struggling on the sinking streets, were replaced by dozens of villages in a single day by the UAV, which prevented the mosquito -borne disease.
Realtime Maps helped improve evacuation routes and prefer food, medicines and shelters. In each mission, the airframe easily changed the role by surveillance to pay load delivery – tanks and software modules easily changed the role.
Infrastructure inspection and logistics stand to benefit from the introduction of UAV. The Bridge and Dam Survey, which requires a week of manual work, now takes hours with RGB, leather and thermal sensors carrying hours. Automatic image analysis flag flags of hairline cracks or thermal non -contradictions, which replace expensive reactions with effective precautions.
The UAE has shown the ability to supply emergency medical equipment in less than 30 minutes. This model can change the health care of the last mail in the cities of Pakistan and remote districts.
The key to unlocking these use is the modification. Construction of an air frame with standard chassis, propulsion and flight control system allows manufacturers to spread certificates and development costs in multiple roles. A pay load bay designed for precision spray can be refered in minutes with mapping leather or medical drop mechanisms.
Without coordinated action, the drone will be a drone consumer instead of the developer and exporter. The United Arab Emirates verification tensions for defense can also operate a home industry serving markets in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
On a platform, trained pilots easily move between agricultural flights, flood missions and infrastructure inspection. It develops a large market to reduce spares, software updates and maintenance services, costs and faster. Models from Turkey and Israel have shown that there are dozens of different types of mission with the same basic design. Pakistan will have to accept this lesson for the construction of a critical scale.
There are four obstacles along the way: Under the Civil Aviation Authority Stall approval, the first, scattered regulations, mostly restrict most operations to a handful of government agencies. Second, the cost of import duty and foreign platform squeezes the margin of local startups. Thirdly, the purchase rules are in favor of the defense contractors, closing small and medium -sized businesses. Fourth, research is pending between military labs, educational institutions and private firms, which prevents the rapid transfer of sovereignty algorithms and control software in civilian use.
Public private partnerships can eliminate these gaps. When public resources are included in the private sector’s attention, projects gain both legal status and speed. Pakistan needs a formal alliance between the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, the Special Technology Zones Authority, the leading universities and the tech incubators.
Such PPP can share pilot production lines for modular airframes and sensor kits. Subsidic programs for local assembly can reduce import dependence and enhance manufacturing skills. The Auto Pilot and the University Labs, working on the Payload Switching algorithm, can live directly to these projects. Regulators, consequently, can harmonize air capacity rules in military and civilian domains, and create a test zone for “drone transit”-out-of-line flights, spectrum access and autonomous operations.
The purchase reform is equally important. The tender rules will allow the “dual use” clause and bid on both the citizen contracts, which will encourage competitiveness and innovation. Small firms can supply spraying modules or mapping sensors instead of the entire system. It is a mirror of global aerospace clusters, where thousands of components support some of the major contractors, which produce dynamic ecosystem rather than monopolies. In Pakistan, such reforms will empower local firms from agricultural drones to leather -equipped inspection pods.
National drone innovation strategy should be a cabinet level priority. A Ben -Minor Task Force should align defense production, food security, climate change and internal ministries around clear goals. Financial support can be found with public grants, privileged loans and similar private investment.
Without coordinated action, the drone will be a drone consumer instead of the developer and exporter. The United Arab Emirates verification tensions for defense can also operate a home industry serving markets in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
By accepting modular airframes, reforming regulations and using public private partnerships, policy makers can ensure that from battlefield assets to national development engines, fields, forests, flood fields and cities. It’s time to work now.
The author is the Associate Research Fellow in the SDPI and can be reached to Ahad@sdpi.org. The article does not necessarily represent the ideas of the organization.
