Pakistan Aeronautical Complex

Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, usually shortened to PAC, is the state-owned aerospace and defence manufacturer based at Kamra in Punjab, Pakistan, and in this atlas it is the make behind the Mushshak family of basic trainers. It was set up by the Pakistan Air Force in the early 1970s to stop the service depending wholly on foreign suppliers for overhaul and spares, and it sits under the Ministry of Defence Production. The complex is organised as four factories: the Aircraft Rebuild Factory, which overhauls Chinese-origin fighters such as the F-6 and F-7, the Mirage Rebuild Factory, the Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, which builds new aircraft, and the Avionics Production Factory. Its own products include the MFI-17 Mushshak and the MFI-395 Super Mushshak trainers, both developed from the Swedish Saab Safari line, while it co-produces the JF-17 Thunder fighter with China's Chengdu and the K-8 Karakorum jet trainer with Hongdu, and builds the Falco surveillance drone under licence from Selex of Italy.