PNS Babur (D-182) in the Persian Gulf in 2004.
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History | |
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Pakistan | |
Name | PNS Babur |
Namesake | Babur[1] |
Builder | Vosper Thornycroft in England |
Laid down | 6 November 1969 |
Launched | 26 April 1971 |
Acquired | 18 January 1994 |
Recommissioned | 30 September 1993 |
Decommissioned | December 2014 |
In service | 1993–2014 |
Homeport | Naval Base Karachi |
Identification | Pennant number: D-182 |
Status | Decommissioned—awaiting disposal.[2] |
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 |
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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) |
Complement | 192, 14 officers, 178 enlisted: contents [3] |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried |
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Aviation facilities | Flight deck and hangar |
PNS Babur (D-182) was a Tariq-class destroyer that served in the Surface Command of the Pakistan Navy from 1993 until being decommissioned in 2014.[4][5] Before commissioning in the Pakistan Navy, she served in the Royal Navy, formerly designated as HMS Amazon as a general purpose frigate.[6]
Upon being acquired by Pakistan in 1993, she went through a modernization and refitting program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi in 1998–2002 to be classified as destroyer.[6]