The drones Pak fired at India on the night of May 8, 2025, included the Turkey-made Asisguard SONGAR and the Bayraktar TB2, an unmanned combat aerial vehicle.
During India and Pakistan’s 100-hour-war in May 2025, Islamabad fired a barrage of drones and missiles at enemy military installations and civilian populations.
The biggest wave was late May 8 and early May 9; between 300 and 400 drones, and over a dozen missiles attacked 36 towns or cities from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir to Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, spanning nearly 1,300 km along the Line of Control and the international border.
A vast majority of these were shot down, and those that weren’t were neutralised, i.e., electronically disabled, thanks to India’s ‘Iron Dome’, – the Integrated counter-Unmanned Aerial System, or C-UAS.
From the debris of the shot-down projectiles, a new plotline emerged – a nexus between Pakistan and Turkey, and Azerbaijan, all of which share an increasingly robust economic and military relationship, not to mention their common Islamic heritage.
The ‘Three Brothers’
Historically each has supported the other; after the Soviet Union fell Turkey and Pak were quick to recognise Azerbaijan, and Turkey and Pak have a growing symbiotic military relationship, one underscored by each side’s reluctance to depend on either the West or China.
And oil-rich Azerbaijan has quietly become a leading source of aid and investment for Pak; in February 2025, for example, Baku committed $2 billion in infrastructure, energy, and mining.
The ‘Three Brothers’ – Turkey, Pakistan, and Azerbaijan. Photo Credit: Google Maps
Baku and Islamabad also struck weapons deals, and the latter was reportedly backed by the former and Ankara during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war involving Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Incidentally, India has emerged as a supporter of Armenia.
In 2024 Delhi became Yerevan’s largest defence supplier after a $2 billion deal that included sale of the indigenously developed Akash missile system that kept the Turkish-made Pak drones at bay.
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