Pakistan’s Global Industrial and Defence Solutions (GIDS) revealed its own family of screw-on precision-guidance kits (PGK) under the “Nishana” designation.
The Nishana PGK was designed to adapt to a wide variety of non-guided munitions – including mortar shells, artillery shells, rockets, and general purpose bombs (GPB) – into satellite-guided (GPS/GNSS) munitions.
This is done by replacing the munition’s standard fuzes with Nishana fuzes, which pair a new fuze with a GPS/GNSS-based guidance system and aerodynamic control surfaces. Otherwise, the conversion involves no other changes.
According to GIDS, the Nishana PGK allows militaries to convert their existing stocks of unguided munitions rapidly – be it surface-launched or airborne – into guided ones with relatively minimal additional conversion work.
Not only does this approach reduce upfront procurement costs, but it also eliminates the need to replace existing artillery guns, rocket launchers, and other launch platforms to enable precision-guided capability.
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