| Unit Name: | 28 ASW Squadron |
| Native Name: | ۲۸ سکواڈرن |
| Dates: | Since 1997 |
| Branch: | Pakistan Naval Air Arm |
| Type: | Squadron |
| Garrison: | PNS Mehran |
| Garrison Label: | Station |
| Colours: | --> |
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| Anniversaries: | 8 September (Navy day) |
| Battles: | |
| Battles Label: | Engagements |
| Aircraft Patrol: | Lockheed P-3C Orion Embraer Sea Sultan |
28 ASW Squadron is a maritime patrol squadron of the Pakistan Navy stationed at PNS Mehran in Karachi. Equipped with Lockheed P-3C Orions, the squadron is assigned Anti-submarine warfare wartime role.[1] [2] [3]
28 Squadron was formed at PNS Mehran between 1996 and 1997 when the first batch of three Orions were inducted. In 2020, the navy initiated its LRMPA modernization program under which the P-3C Orions of 28 squadron would be replaced with 10 militarized versions of the Embraer Lineage-1000 jets also known as Sea Sultans.[4] [5] The first of these jets arrived at PNS Mehran in 2021 for which an induction ceremony attended by the navy's top brass was organized.[6] [7]
The squadron's Orions were deployed on combat support operations at NWFP during Counter-insurgency ops in early 2010.[8]
In 2019, a P-3C of the squadron alongside PNS Shamsheer and PNS Muhafiz took part in the International Maritime Exercise 2019 (IMX 19). At the same time an Orion was also deployed in the Aegean Sea for the Dogu Akdeniz-19 naval exercise with Turkey during which it reportedly breached into Greek airspace over disputed territory alongside several Turkish warplanes.[9] [10]
In 2021, a P-3C Orion intercepted an Indian Kulvari class submarine in Pakistani waters.[11]