Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS)

Global Industrial & Defence Solutions is the marketing and export arm through which Pakistan's state defence manufacturing units and research houses sell abroad. Formed in 2007 and run from Complex II at Chaklala Garrison in Rawalpindi, it groups together several member companies and pushes their output into a single catalogue that now runs past sixty named systems. The company describes itself as Pakistan's largest defence manufacturing grouping and the country's biggest private investor in high technology research. Everything it sells is subject to clearance under Pakistan's Export Control Act of 2004, and the export variants of its longer ranged missiles are deliberately capped to stay inside Missile Technology Control Regime limits. The catalogue is arranged by eight mission domains rather than by member company, so a buyer sees systems grouped by what they do instead of by which plant built them.

Unmanned aerial systems are the most visible line. Shahpar-II Block II is the combat proven medium altitude endurance aircraft, and Shahpar-III, shown publicly at IDEAS 2024, is a larger Group 4 design. Below them sit vertical take off types including Super Ranger V150, the hybrid Ranger V50H strike aircraft and the electric Scout V30, quadcopters such as Scout Mini and the Beetle and Super Beetle mortar carriers, the ZAP FPV Aviator, and Yalghar loitering munitions. Payloads are a business in themselves, covering the Zumr-II and long range Zumr-III electro optical turrets, the Burq laser guided air to ground missile, synthetic aperture radar, sonobuoys, the Eghraaq air launched lightweight torpedo, and pod and line replaceable unit based electronic intelligence systems. Counter drone work runs through the Safrah-III and the portable and truck mounted Spider systems. Several of the newer aircraft came out of NESCOM, the national science and technology organisation, with GIDS handling export marketing.

Air launched systems cover the Taimoor cruise missile, the AZB-83 range extension kit, the Al Battaar laser guidance kit for Mk.80 series bombs, bunker busters, general purpose bombs, fuzes and cartridges. Land systems bring the Fatah-I and Fatah-II guided rocket and missile artillery, the Baktar Shikan antitank missile, the Anza Mk III shoulder launched air defence missile, mortars and launchers, the Nishana precision guidance kit and a 37mm gun conversion. Naval systems cover the Harbah-NG multi platform cruise missile, the SMASH anti ship ballistic missile, a naval combat management system, the Link Green tactical data link, network centric combat systems, simulators, patrol boats and reverse osmosis plants for ships. Integrated systems add C4I and artillery fire control. CBRNe defence covers protective suits, security and riot protection covers perimeter systems and thermal imagers, and cyber security solutions cover the EncryptGuard IP encryptor and SkyAI object detection. Fatah-I was used operationally before the export campaign began, and the family has since been extended with longer ranged members.