Pakistan is in the process of buying antitank guided weapon systems ATGWs from its long-term ally Turkey According to sources in the Defence and security establishment Islamabad is also considering coproduction of the ATGWs along with the Turkish weapons manufacturer Roketsan Designed to destroy an adversary’s tanks and other armored vehicles antitank guided weapon systems or missiles can be short medium or long range Roketsan offers a range of antitank weapon systems including the man portable KARAOK a shortrange fire and forget antitank guided missile with an imaging infrared seeker Other ATGWs part of its catalogue include the OMTAS a medium range antitank weapon system and UMTAS a long range antitank missile system developed primarily for integration with attack helicopters it is learnt that the Pakistan Army has also signed a contract for the procurement of an Electronic Intelligence ELINT system under the scope of project AGILE with Italian Defence manufacturer Elettronica The Integrated Site Acceptance and Testing ISAT for this system will likely be carried out in Pakistan ELINT systems gather and analyses information such as radar transmissions using electronic sensors.
