Subordinate To: Ministry of Defense
Address: E-5, Officers Colony
Wah Cantt 47040 Pakistan
Telephone: 92-5772-520522
Fax: 92-5772-520069
Email: marketing@awc.com.pk
URL: http://www.awc.com.pk

Primary Function:
Design, development, and manufacture of air-deliverable conventional and possibly nuclear weapons

Description and Activities:
The Air Weapons Complex (AWC) at Wah Cantt was established in 1990; it has been identified as the facility most likely involved with the weaponization of Pakistan's air- and ballistic missile-deliverable nuclear devices. The AWC is equipped with a composite facility; computer-aided design facility; computer-aided manufacturing facility; structural analysis facility; electromagnetic compatibility study facility; and vibration testing facility.

Key Sources: Air Weapons Complex, Defense Export Promotion Organization, <http://www.depo.org.pk/products/awc/index.htm>; "Wah Cantonment: Pakistan Ordnance Factories," Global Security.Org, <http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/pakistan/wah.htm>.

	Updated December 2003