PNS Tippu Sultan (D-185) explained

PNS Tippu Sultan (DDG-185), a, served in the Pakistan Navy after it was acquired in 1994. Her design was based on the British Type 21 frigate, and previously served in the Royal Navy as as a general purpose frigate.[1]

In 1998–2008, the extensive engineering modernization and midlife upgrade program by the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works at the Naval Base Karachi reclassified her status as guided missile destroyer.[2]

Service history

Acquisition, construction, and modernization

She was designed and constructed by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, Scotland, she was laid down on 30 October 1974, and was launched on 19 July 1978. She eventually gained commissioned on 19 July 1978 in the Surface Fleet of the Royal Navy as . During her service with the Royal Navy, she was notable for her wartime operations during the Falklands War with Argentina.[3]

On 3 October 1994, she was purchased by Pakistan after the successful negotiation with the United Kingdom, along with PNS Shah Jahan.[4]

Upon arriving in Karachi, she underwent an extensive modernization and mid-life upgrade program by Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works at the Naval Base Karachi in 1998–2002.[1]

She was namesake after Tipu Sultan, a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, and was commissioned on 1 March 1994.[5] [6]

Her wartime performance included in deployments in patrolling off the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea as well as deploying in the Mediterranean Sea when she was part of the multinational CTF-150.[7] On 27 April 2020, the Pakistan military's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) released a military footage showing the Navy conducting a firing exercise that sunk the Tippu Sultan in the Indian Ocean through cruise missile firing launched from a ship and a rotary aircraft.[8] [9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shabbir . Usman . Tariq (Amazon) Class (TYPE 21) (DD/FF) « PakDef Military Consortium . pakdef.org . Pakistan Military Consortium . 17 September 2018 . Karachi, Sindh Pak. . en-pk . 1 June 2003 . 17 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180917181612/http://pakdef.org/tariq-amazon-class-type-21-ddff/ . dead .
  2. Web site: PNS Tariq (F181) Guided-Missile Destroyer Warship - Pakistan . www.militaryfactory.com . military factory . 20 November 2018.
  3. Marriott, Leo, 1983. Royal Navy Frigates 1945–1983, Ian Allan Publishing
  4. Book: Daily Report: Near East & South Asia . 1994 . The Service . en.
  5. Web site: 25th Destroyer Squadron . www.paknavy.gov.pk . Pakistan Navy Official Website . 20 November 2018.
  6. News: Pakistan navy Frigate in Dubai . 20 November 2018 . PressReader . The Nation . The Nation.
  7. Web site: CTF 151 SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES FOCUSED COUNTER PIRACY OPERATION HAMAD . Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) . 20 November 2018 . 21 February 2018.
  8. Web site: Editorial . Defense Brief . Pakistan sinks former Royal Navy frigate in missile firing drill . Defense Brief . 19 September 2020 . 28 April 2020.
  9. Brief News Ships Monthly July 2020 page 17