PNS Tariq (1993)
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| Name: | PNS Tariq |
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| Yard number: | 1008 |
| Laid down: | 1 September 1971 |
| Launched: | 18 January 1973 |
| Acquired: | 28 July 1993 |
| Recommissioned: | 1 January 1993 |
| Nickname(s): | Tariq |
| Status: | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Amazon/Type 21 |
| Displacement: | 3,250 tons full load |
| Length: | 384 ft (117 m) |
| Beam: | 41 ft 9 in (12.73 m) |
| Draught: | 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) |
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| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
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| Troops: | 2 × Btn, Pakistan Marines |
| Complement: | 177 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 Lynx |
The PNS Tariq is a lead ship of her class of destroyer in the Surface Command of the Pakistan Navy. Prior to be commissioned in the Pakistan Navy, she was the lead ship in the Type 21 frigate class and was formerly designated as the HMS Ambuscade in Royal Navy service being acquired in 1993. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow in Scotland, and went through the modernization in KESW Ltd. in Karachi.
Service history
HMS Ambuscade was decommissioned and sold to Pakistan on 28 July 1993 being renamed PNS Tariq.[1] Exocet was not transferred to Pakistan and Tariq had her obsolete Sea Cat launcher removed. A Phalanx CIWS was later fitted in place of the Sea Cat launcher. SRBOC chaff launchers and 20 mm and 30 mm guns were fitted.
Tariq remains in service with the Pakistan Navy. Captain Asad Ali Imran PN is the current commanding officer of the ship.
References
- ↑ "HMS Ambuscade". Clydebuilt. Retrieved 8 November 2009.