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Air Weapons Complex

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Weapons development complex for the Pakistan Air Force

The Air Weapons Complex (reporting name:AWC) is a military research and development complex for the Pakistan Air Force, headquartered in Hasan Abdal, Punjab, Pakistan. The AWC plays a pivotal role in air–borne weapons development and integration in aerospace war-fighting technologies for the Pakistan Air Force. Direction and weapons development guidance comes directly from the air force but the complex is managed and operated as a division under the civilian contract of National Engineering & Scientific Commission (NESCOM).2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Feb 18, 1992Founded1
  • Industryaerospace industry1
  • HeadquartersWah1

The Air Weapons Complex (reporting name:AWC) is a military research and development complex for the Pakistan Air Force, headquartered in Hasan Abdal, Punjab, Pakistan.2

Products and brands

Products

Airborne systems

Airborne Video Tape Recorder system (AVTR)

Airborne Digital Data Recorder system

Infra-red search and track system (IRST)

GNSS navigation system

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Mechanical gyro and iFOG-based inertial navigation system (INS)

MOHAFIZ counter-measures dispensing system

Laser guidance for Pk.80 Series Bombs (based on Mk.80 Series license-manufactured design from the US)

Air-launched weaponry

6 kg, 11 kg – Practice bombs

250 kg – Pre-fragmented bomb

Pk.80 Series – General-purpose bomb (based on Mk.80 Series)

250 kg Pk.82

500 kg Pk.83

1000 kg Pk.84

Al Battaar – Laser Guided Bomb (LGBs)

Al Battaar-500 (based on Pk.83 bomb)

Al Battaar-1000 (based on Pk.84 bomb)

HAFR-1 – Anti-runway penetration bomb

HAFR-2 – Anti-runway penetration bomb

RPB-1 – Anti-runway penetration bomb

H-2 SOW – Precision-guided munition

H-4 SOW – Precision-guided munition

Ra'ad – Air-Launched Cruise Missile

Ra'ad-II – Air-Launched Cruise Missile

Electronics

Air Defence Automation System (C4I system) – given to Bangladesh, installed by AWC engineers circa 2005.

Electronic fuses for air-launched weapons (impact and proximity fuses)

Real-time ACMI system

Voice/Fax/Data encryption system

Other

Multi-Spectral Camouflage Net - camouflages against night-vision, infra-red, radar and millimeter wave sensors as well as visual detection. Stated to reduce an object's radar cross-section (RCS) by 86% on average and reduce average detection range by 43.8%.

Software and UCAV development

Between 1988 and 1998, the AWC worked on developing the codes and systems engineering software that would be integrated with the fighter jets before dropping the nuclear discharges at the military targets. The successful weapons software integration was carried out in 1995 and its results were confirmed during a simulated military exercise.

In 1998, the AWC embarked on a robotics engineering project for the indigenous development of combat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) with codenamed, the SKY TRACKER. The AWC developed Sky Tracker and Sky Navigator software suites were developed for the ground-based tracking of UAVs. The software retrieves the GPS position data from the UAV via a radio data-link 17 and uses it to show the position of the UAV as a 2D plot along with other essential data such as, speed, altitude, heading, and magnitudes. This plot can be overlaid onto area maps as well and this information is used by the pilot for flying the UAV from the ground-based command station.

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Timeline

  1. Feb 18, 1992Founded Founded1

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