Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (Kamra Airbase)

[Khizar Waheed]

Introduction

The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, is a major aerospace, defence, aviation contractor, and military corporation producing aerial systems for both military and civilian usage. Founded in 1971 by the Pakistan Air Force, the Complex designs, develops, and build aircraft and avionics systems for the Inter–Services of the country; it also provides its services for civilian aircraft. In addition, the Complex performs local maintenance and works on the aircraft MLU systems of foreign-built military and civilian aircraft. It is solely owned by the Pakistan Air Force as its corporate interests and its corporate appointments are directly made by the Chief of air staff from the Air HQ of the Pakistan Air Force. Mainly focusing on avionics, aviation, and high-tech electronics, the Complex also manufactures military systems for army and navy, which are listed as "valued customers". Many of these products are specially suited for the Pakistan Armed Forces needs, while others are also marketed to foreign militaries. While it collaborated with several countries corporate organizations, the Complex often jointly works with the Turkish TAI and the Chinese CATIC.

History

Since 1947, the Pakistan Air Force operated and dependent on foreign suppliers and the fighter jets and aircraft had to be sent abroad for desired inspection, development, and to produce parts to maintain the fighter aircraft in service, causing the downsizing of the air force. Consultation from the Pakistan Air Force's commanders at the AHQ at the Pindi Cantt and assistance from the Chinese government, the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex was established in 1973 in Kamra with Aircraft Rebuild Factory first being functional. The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) was established by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) as part of the new defence policy introduced in 1972; the PAC represents wide range of corporate revenue of the air force while fulfilling the national security needs of the country. The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex started with three main Ministry of Defence projects designated​

• P-721
• P-741
• P-751

The first two digits show the year of project approval and launch, the third digit is a serial designation. Since 1980s–90s, The PAC build licensed-built Mirage-III, Mirage-5, and the F-16s as well as building the F100 engines for the F-16s under licensed with the Pratt & Whitney.

Production History

Aircraft​

• • JF-17 Thunder
  • MFI-17 Mushshak
  • K-8 Karakorum
  • Project Sabre II

Aircraft parts​

• • K-8 Karakorum (also known as Hongdu JL-8)

Aircraft maintenance components​

• • F-16 Fighting Falcon
  • Dassault Mirage III
  • Dassault Mirage V
  • Chengdu F-7
  • Shenyang F-6
  • Nanchang A-5
  • Lockheed C-130 Hercules

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)​

• • Ubabeel Aerial Drone - A small arms target designed for target practice use by operators of small arms, machine guns. Also used to train operators for the larger and faster Baaz Aerial Drone. Can be very effective for recce missions.

• • Baaz Aerial Drone - A recoverable aerial target designed for use with air defence guns and surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. It has a very high rate of accuracy

• • SELEX Galileo Falco - A surveillance UAV, production began in August 2009.

Consumer Electronics​

• • The PAC also builds Android tablets PAC-PAD 1 and PAC-PAD Takhti7.
  • The PAC e-book 1
  • The PAC n-book 1

 

[Norwegian]

Nice...

 

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[Pomegranate]

thanx for the article .

 

[Danish saleem]

if u also share some pics then it must be more informative!