PNS Khaibar (DDG-183) (first vessel on bottom on the left) assemble in a formation led by the German frigate Augsburg participating in the Combined Task Force-150 in the Indian Ocean in 2004.
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History | |
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Pakistan | |
Name | PNS Khaibar |
Namesake | Battle of Khaybar[1] |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders in Scotland |
Laid down | 4 December 1971 |
Launched | 5 February 1974 |
Acquired | 1 March 1994 |
Recommissioned | 26 June 1994 |
Homeport | Naval Base Karachi |
Identification | Pennant number: DDG-183 |
Fate | Sunk as a target during SEASPARK-2022 naval exercise.[2][3] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tariq-class frigate |
Displacement | 3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load |
Beam | 41 ft 9 in (12.73 m) |
Draught | 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) |
Decks | 09 |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
Range | 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Complement | 192, 14 officers, 178 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried |
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Aviation facilities | Flight deck and hangar |
PNS Khaibar (DDG-183) was a Tariq-class destroyer of the Pakistan Navy between 1994 and 2022.[4]
Prior to be commissioned in the service of the Pakistan Navy in 1994, she served in the Royal Navy, formerly designated as HMS Arrow as a general purpose frigate.[5] The modernization and midlife upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi reclassified her status as guided missile destroyer.[6]