Global Industrial Defence Solutions

Global Industrial Defence Solutions (GIDS) is an arms and manufacturing company established in Pakistan in 2007. It represents a conglomeration of Pakistani manufacturing companies in international markets and is a major contractor to the Pakistani military.

Established in 2007[1], GIDS is based in Islamabad[2] and Rawalpindi, Pakistan.[3] According to Jane's, it is "Pakistan’s largest state-owned manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles".[4] GIDS frequently exhibits its products at arms expositions in the Middle East and Africa.[5][4] Its CEO is Major General Syed Guftar Shah.[6]

GIDS exports Pakistani defence manufacturing products to international markets and acts as "the means to help vertically integrate customers across Pakistan’s wider defence industry".[7][8] It manufactures products such as the Range Extension Kit (REK) for Mk-80-series general-purpose bombs.[9]

GIDS also make parts for Pakistani army's main battle tanks, such as Integrated Battlefield Management Systems.[10] Foreign Affairs have reported that GIDS have demonstrated reconnaissance drones at arms fairs in Islamabad.[11] They also make a model of glide bomb, a weapons delivery system, known as 'Takbir', the Arabic phrase for the common Islamic profession of faith 'Allahu akbar'.[12]