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

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 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