PNS Badr (D-184)

PNS Badr (D-184) was the Tariq-class destroyer that served in the Surface Command of the Pakistan Navy from 1994 until being decommissioned from the service in 2014.[2]

For other ships with the same name, see PNS Badr.
PNS Badr (D-184) in Northern Persian Gulf in 2005.
History
Pakistan
Name: PNS Badr
Namesake: Badr
Builder:
Laid down: 28 September 1972
Launched: 18 September 1974
Acquired: 1 March 1994
Recommissioned: 26 June 1994
In service: 1994–2014
Homeport: Naval Base Karachi
Identification: Pennant number: D-184
Status: Decommissioned.[1]
General characteristics
Class and type: Tariq-class destroyer
Displacement: 3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load
Length: 384 ft (117 m)
Beam: 41 ft 9 in (12.73 m)
Draught: 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Propulsion:
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range: 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Troops: 2 × Btn, Pakistan Marines
Complement: 192, 14 officers, 178 enlisted
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:
  • 1 × Vickers 4.5 in (114 mm)/55 Mk.8 AS/AA gun (25rds/min to 22km/11.9nmi)
  • 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
  • 4 × Harpoon SSMs
  • 4 × 6-cell Exocet
  • Mk. 46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried:
  • 1 × Lynx HAS.3 helicopter
  • 1 × Camcopter S-100 UAV
Aviation facilities: Flight deck and hangar

Before joining the Pakistan Navy, she was formerly designated as HMS Alacrity of the British Royal Navy as a general purpose frigate, and went through an extensive refit and midlife upgrade program by the KESW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi to have mission status to be properly qualified as the destroyer.[3]

Service history

Acquisition, construction, and modernization

She was designed and constructed by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Ltd. at Glasgow in Scotland and was laid down on 5 March 1973; eventually, she was launched on 18 September 1974.[3] After a series of sea trials, she was commissioned on 2 July 1977 in the Surface Fleet of the Royal Navy as HMS Alacrity.[3] During her service with the Royal Navy, she was notable for her wartime operations during the Falklands War with Argentina.[4]

On 1 March 1994, she was purchased by Pakistan after the successful negotiation with the United Kingdom and sailed off from Port of Plymouth to the Port of Karachi, arriving on 26 June 1994.[5]

Upon arriving in Karachi, she underwent an extensive modernization and mid-life upgrade program by the KESW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi in 1998–2002.[3]

In 2005, she was deployed to join the expeditionary strike group led by the U.S. Navy to engage in the relief efforts for the earthquake that struck the northern part of the Pakistan on 8 October 2005.[6]

Her wartime performance included in deployments in patrolling off the Horn of Africa, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean as part of the CTF-150.[7][8]

In 2014, it was reported that PNS Badr was decommissioned from service.[1]

References
  1. "Ex-Royal Navy vessels serving with other navies • The Military Times". The Military Times. The Military Times. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  2. "PNS Tariq (F181) Guided-Missile Destroyer Warship - Pakistan". www.militaryfactory.com. military factory. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. Shabbir, Usman (1 June 2003). "Tariq (Amazon) Class (TYPE 21) (DD/FF) «  PakDef Military Consortium". pakdef.org. Karachi, Sindh Pak.: Pakistan Military Consortium. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  4. "Alacrity dodges four Exocets". Navy News p.23. August 1982.
  5. Summary of World Broadcasts: SWB.. Asia-Pacific. Weekly economic report. BBC Monitoring. 1994. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. Flanders, USN, Lt. Ron (16 November 2005). "ESG-1 Conducts Maritime Security Operations in Arabian Sea" (htm). www.navy.mil/. San Diego, CA, USA: U.S. Navy. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  7. "Frigate leaves for anti-piracy mission". DAWN.COM. 31 August 2009.
  8. "Defense.gov News Article: U.S., Pakistani Forces Complete 'Inspired Union 2008'". archive.defense.gov. Retrieved 20 November 2018.

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