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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
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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
- Feb 18, 1992Founded Founded1
Links
- WikipediaAir Weapons Complex
- WikidataQ4698260
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- 1WikidataAir Weapons Complex on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaAir Weapons Complex on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsAir Weapons Complex logo by Zscout370, Public domain
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