Army Air Defence Command (Pakistan)

Pakistan Army Air Defence Command
Active 10 October 1999 - Present
Country  Pakistan
Branch  Pakistan Army
Type Army Corps
Role Combined arms formation
Air Defence Warfare
Size 10,000 approximately (vary as troops are rotated)
Part of Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps
HQ/Command Control Headquarter Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, Pakistan
Engagements Kargil War
2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
Decorations Military Decorations of Pakistan Military
Commanders
Current
commander		 Lt Gen Hamood Uz Zaman Khan

The Pakistan Army Air Defence Command ,(Urdu: ﺁرمى أير ڈفينص کمانڈ; Army Air Defence Command, abbreviated as AADC) (not to be mixed with Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps which is an Administrative Corps), is an active military combatant corps of the Pakistan Army and a major combative formation tasked with air defences of strategic assets of Pakistan from foreign Aerial threats. Army Air Defence Command was formed and headquartered at the Chaklala Army Cantonment in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province of Pakistan. following military exercises where Pakistan's military learned of its weakness in providing air cover over a moving battlefield.[1] Air Defence Command consists of a total of five military divisions spread across two geographic districts; one tasked with air defence of the northern region of Pakistan headquartered in Lahore and the other with the southern region commanded from Quetta.

An Army Air Defence Regiment lowers the Regimental Flag during march past

List of commanders

Commander Army Air Defence Command Tenure
9. Lieutenant general Hamood Uz Zaman Dec 2017 – present
8. Lieutenant general Muhammad Zahid Latif Mirza, Dec 2013 – Dec 2017
7. Lieutenant general Zamir Ul Hassan Shah, April 2012 – December 2013
6. Lieutenant general Syed Muhammad Owais, April 2010 – April 2012
5. Lieutenant general Muhammad Ashraf Saleem, October 2006 – April 2010
4. Lieutenant general Tahir Mahmud Qazi, May 2005 – October 2006
3. Lieutenant general Khateer Hasan Khan, August 2000 – May 2005
2. Lieutenant general Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, April 1998 – August 2000
1. Lieutenant general Amjad Shuaib, March 1996 – April 1998

Present day and order of battle

  • HQ ADC, Rawalpindi
    • 3rd Air Defence Division, Sargodha
      • 3rd Air Defence Brigade (largest Brigade of Pakistan army)
    • 4th Air Defence Division, Malir

See also

Pakistan Army Air Defence Corps

References

  1. ↑ "Annual Fire Practice Exercise" GlobalSecurity.org
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