Pakistan Navy

Pakistan Strategic Forum analysts visited the soft launch ceremony of the Pakistan Navy-backed Pakistan International Maritime Expo and Conference 2023 (PIMEC 2023). The event was meant to soft launch the expo and conference which would be held in February...

An article was published last month regarding the Pakistan Navy’s Zulfiquar class frigates. Article was mainly focused on operational status of the frigates, according to which the frigates were facing technical issues which hampered the three-dimensional capabilities of the...

The second Tughril-class guided missile and air defense frigate of the Pakistan Navy, PNS Taimur (F-262), conducted four-day live-fire naval warfare exercises with the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). The four-day major naval exercises included a Tariq-class destroyer and a...

Steel cutting ceremony of Batch-II of Damen Corvettes for the Pakistan Navy was held at Constanta Port in Romania, attended by the Pakistani ambassador and Pakistan Navy officials. The Pakistan Navy’s Directorate General of Procurement and the Ministry of...

Pakistan Navy has secured two more airframes of the Embraer Lineage 1000 aircraft for the Sea Sultan program. The airframes are A6-HHS (built 2010), and the other is unknown. The aircraft were owned by Falcon Aviation Services, Abu Dhabi....

Pakistan Navy Plans On 07 October 2020, the Chief of Naval Staff (Zafar Mahmood Abbasi), In a speech, outlined the service’s modernization plans for 2030 across its surface, sub-surface, and aviation domains & emphasized that the PN will aggressively expand...

The Pakistan Naval Air Arm ever since its creation with the commissioning of its home base PNS Mehran in 26 September 1975 has been a vital part of Pakistan Navy and this force is dominated by PN helicopter fleet,...

Since 2016 Indian navy (IN) submarines tried to sneak into the waters of Pakistan on several occasions. Each time PN air arm long range maritime patrol aircraft (LRMPA) have tracked, intercepted and forced these submarines to surface and stopped...

Pakistan navy recently inducted leading ship Tughril-class frigate (Type-054AP) into its fleet with three more to be inducted of same class next year. Pakistan navy is looking to procure a small number of Z-9D for its newly inducted Tughril-class...

In November 2021, Pakistan Navy commissioned PNS Tughril (Type-054AP), first ship of its class in a ceremony held in Hodong Xing shipyard Shanghai. From visuals the PNS Tughril (261) looked clearly different from the Type-054 Alpha class of PLAN. The...