Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps#Units
{{short description|Pakistan army staff corps for anti-aircraft warfare.}}
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{{Infobox military unit
| unit_name = Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps
| image = Pakistan Army Emblem (2025).png
| caption = Badge of the Pakistan Army
| start_date = {{start date and age|1948}}
| country = {{flag|Pakistan}}
| branch = {{army|Pakistan}}
| type = Combined and Combat support service
| role = Administrative and staffing oversight.
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| garrison = Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, Punjab in Pakistan.
| garrison_label = HQ/Garrison
| nickname = ADC
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| colors = Black, Yellow
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| battles = Military history of Pakistan
| anniversaries = 1948
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| commander1 = Maj-Gen. Sarfraz Ahmad
| commander1_label = Director-General
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| notable_commanders = Gen. Ehsan ul Haq
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| identification_symbol_label = War Flag
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The Pakistan Army Corps of Air Defence is a military administrative and combat service support branch of the Pakistan Army.{{cite web |title=Army Air Defence – Pakistan Army |url=https://pakarmy.com.pk/army-air-defence/ |access-date=13 December 2023}} Reporting direct from the Army GHQ, it is commanded by Major-General Sarfraz Ahmed who served its director-general as of 2023.{{cite news |title=Pakistan Army Chief Shuffles Generals – Northlines |url=https://thenorthlines.com/pakistan-army-chief-shuffles-generals-2/#google_vignette |access-date=13 December 2023 |date=3 October 2023}}
Overview
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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.[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/aadc.htm "Annual Fire Practice Exercise"] GlobalSecurity.org
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 (SAAD) located in Malir Cantonment in Karachi, Sindh.{{cite web |title=HEC – National Digital Library – Bahria University |url=http://www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/saad.html |website=digitallibrary.edu.pk |access-date=13 December 2023}} 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.{{cite book |last1=Alam |first1=Dr Shah |title=Pakistan Army: Modernisation, Arms Procurement and Capacity Building |date=1 July 2012 |publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd |isbn=978-93-81411-79-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvapCQAAQBAJ&q=pakistan+army+air+defence+corps+director |access-date=13 December 2023}}
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 LT AD (Eshorad) (Discipline Vigilance Dedication) (Sargodha 71)
- 58 Lt AD (Eshorad) (Fakhar-e-Badin) (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
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| Rank and Name
!Start of Term !End of Term |
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| Maj Gen Agha Masood Hassan,
|October 1987 |September 1991 |
| Lt Gen Nazar Hussain,
|September 1991 |March 1996 |
| Maj Gen Zahid Ehsan,
|March 1996 |April 1998 |
| Lt Gen Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah,
|April 1998 |August 2000 |
| Lt Gen Khateer Hasan Khan,
|August 2000 |May 2005 |
| Maj Gen Tahir Mahmud Qazi,
|May 2005 |October 2006 |
| Lt Gen Muhammad Ashraf Saleem,
|October 2006 |April 2010 |
| Lt Gen Syed Muhammad Owais,
|April 2010 |April 2012 |
| Lt Gen Zamir Ul Hassan Shah,
|April 2012 |December 2013 |
| Lt Gen Muhammad Zahid Latif Mirza,
|December 2013 |December 2017 |
| Lt Gen Hamood Uz Zaman Khan,
|December 2017 |December 2021 |
| Lt Gen Muhammad Zafar Iqbal
|December 2021 |Present |
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110210054743/http://www.pakistanarmy.gov.pk/AWPReview/TextContent.aspx?pId=22&rnd=451 Army Air Defence (Official)]
- GlobalSecurity.org, [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/army-air-defense.htm Global Security Website about the Army Air Defence]
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