153 Light Air Defence (SP) Regiment

Pakistani military unit December 2022 December 2022 January 2022 153 Light Air Defence (SP) Regiment 9 May 1993 Pakistan Pakistan Anti-aircraft warfare Army Air Defence Corps Gulf War 1990–1993Kargil War 1999–2000War on terror Colonel of the Regiment Brigadier Fayaz Farrooqhttp://www.pcp.gov.pk/SiteImage/Downloads/Issue-14%20Dated%2007-04-2021.pdf The Gazette of Pakistan. Part II. 550 Government of Pakistan 14 October 2020 16 December 2022 June 2026 InternetArchiveBot The 153 Light Air Defence (SP) Regiment is an anti-aircraft warfare regiment of the Pakistan Army. It was raised on 9 May 1993 from an independent air defence battery and was deployed in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia from 1990 to 1993 as part of Operation Desert Storm. It was conferred with the title 'Fakhr-e-Tabuk' as a result of its performance. The regiment was also deployed in the Kargil War in 1999 where it downed an Indian Mikoyan MiG-27 fighter aircraft using a domestically produced ANZA Mark 1 missile. References Category:Regiments of Pakistan Category:Air defence regiments Category:Military units and formations established in 1993