- Source: Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps
The Pakistan Army Corps of Air Defence is a military administrative and combat service support branch of the Pakistan Army. Reporting direct from the Army GHQ, it is commanded by Major-General Sarfraz Ahmed who served its director-general as of 2023.
Overview
The Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps was commissioned into the Pakistan Army as an administrative staff branch from the partition of the former British Indian Army's Corps of Army Air Defence, and it was inspected by then-Governor-General Muhammad Ali Jinnah on 21 February 1948.
The Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps provides an effective air defense against the foreign threats by employing ant-aircraft tactics to defend the airspace of the country. Since its commissioning as an administrative corps, the army air defense is structured in regimental composition and has twelve active regiments.
The education and training for the personnel to be commissioned in the corps of army air defence is provided at the School of Army Air Defence located in Malir Cantonment in Karachi, Sindh. The corps is commanded by the director-general, usually serving as an active-duty two star rank, major-general, working under the Chief of the General Staff at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
Units
1 LOMAD
2 LOMAD
3 LOMAD (Born To Win)(Al Daqeeq)
4 HIMAD
5 Lt (SAM)AD (Fakhar-e-Quaid)(Sargodha 71)
6 Lt AD (Glorious)
13 Lt AD (The First Pakistani)
15 Lt AD
19 SP AD
20 Medium AD (Sky Saviours)
29 RCG AD (1957)(Rachna Warriors)(Zafarwal 71)
36 Lt AD ( Sher-e-Jang)
41 Med AD
43 Lt AD (Teer-Ba-Hadaf)
44 SP AD (The Desert Star)
52 Eshorad AD (Discipline Vigilance Dedication) (Sargodha 71)
58 Medium AD (Badin 71)
67 Lt SP AD
74 Lt AD
75 RCG AD (Katiba Mujahid)
85 Lt AD (Falak Shagaf)
88 Lt AD (Mardan-e-Haq)
89 SAM (ESHORAD)(The Al Fajr)(The First Eshorad)
94 Lt AD
95 Lt AD (GM) (Tiara Shikan)
96 Lomad (Shaheen Ba Hadaf)
97 RCG (Killer)
98 RCG (Paasdar e Bayyena) (Athanway)
100 Lt AD (Centurions)
102 Lt AD
103 Lt AD
104 Lt AD (Fakhar e Chaman)
123 SCR AD
124 SCR AD (Chokas o Tayyar)
125 SCR AD (Barwaqt O Yaqeeni)
126 Lt AD (G/M) Regiment (Victorious)
127 medium AD
133 RCG AD
134 RCG AD
135 Missile AD (Falak Shigaaf)
136 RCG AD (Aatish Fishan)
140 RCG AD (Fakhar E Chaman)
141 Lt AD(SAM) Regt (The Lightening One)
142 Missile AD
143 Missile AD
144 SP AD
145 Lt SP AD
146 SP AD (Bahimmat)
147 Lt AD
148 (SP) Lt AD (AK) (First To Fire) (Chinarees)
151 SP AD (The Pioneers) (Chambb)
152 Lt AD
153 SP AD (Fakhar E Tabuk)(Ek Tarwanja Sher Ka Panja)
154 SP AD
155 SP AD (Zarb E Katum)
157 Lt AD
156 Lt AD (COMP)(Falak Paima)
158 Lt AD
159 Lt AD
160 RCG
161 RCG (Nigah Buland)
Key:
Lt AD = Light Air Defence
RCG = Radar Control Guns
SAM = Surface to Air Missile
SP = Self Propelled
List of commanders
References
External links
Army Air Defence (Official)
GlobalSecurity.org, Global Security Website about the Army Air Defence
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