Turkish firm names Pakistan as buyer of 100,000 FPV drones

Pakistan is the buyer behind a Turkish deal for 100,000 small kamikaze drones, the largest export order a Turkish company has announced for the cheap, goggle-flown attack drones that have reshaped the war in Ukraine.

Pasifik Teknoloji, a Turkish technology company listed on the Istanbul stock exchange, said in a filing with Turkey’s Public Disclosure Platform that it signed the contract on Sept. 18 with NRTC, which it called “the authorized technology and defense organization of our friendly and allied country, Pakistan.” NRTC is Pakistan’s state-owned National Radio and Telecommunication Corporation.

The three-year “Sales, Distribution, and Local Assembly/Production Agreement” covers 100,000 MERKÜT FPV kamikaze drones, 10 ALPİN unmanned helicopters, 25 DUMRUL mini unmanned helicopters, 500 DELİ tactical kamikaze systems and 250 KORGAN autonomous ground support and observation units, according to the filing.

When Pasifik first announced a framework agreement for the package in May, it described the customer only as a “friendly and allied country.” The final contract cuts the number of KORGAN ground units from 500 to 250 and adds local assembly and production in Pakistan.

The MERKÜT is a first-person-view, or FPV, drone. Its pilot wears video goggles and steers it into a target, where it explodes. The company says it can stay in the air for 20 to 30 minutes and strike targets up to 8 km (5 miles) away. Its warhead is packed with 1,000 steel ball bearings, each 3 mm across, and a proximity sensor sets it off near the target.

The drone was built by SAVX Teknoloji, in which Pasifik’s subsidiary Titra Teknoloji holds a 51% stake. It entered Turkish service in August 2025, when Titra signed a supply contract to deliver MERKÜT drones from stock.

The rest of the package comes from Titra. The ALPİN is an unmanned helicopter that the company says can fly preset missions on its own and carry up to 200 kg (440 pounds), including fuel. The DUMRUL is a smaller, battery-powered armed helicopter drone that can stay airborne for about two hours.

FPV drones cost little to build and have become one of the most common weapons on the front line in Ukraine, where both sides use them by the hundreds of thousands. A buy of 100,000 puts Pakistan among the larger known FPV customers outside that war.

Pasifik said the deal follows testing completed under the earlier framework agreement and called it its first defense export.