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Sale to Pakistan. The six surviving Type 21 frigates were sold to Pakistan in 1993–1994 for 60 million US dollars. The Exocet and Seacat were removed before the sale and the frigates were given a basic refit at Karachi with US Harpoon anti-ship missile. Three of them were fitted with Phalanx CIWS, the others with 40mm Bofors L70 guns.
HMS. Alacrity. (F174) HMS Alacrity was a Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy . Alacrity was active during the Falklands War of 1982, where she sank a supply ship, survived Exocet-missile attacks and rescued men from the Atlantic Conveyor. She was transferred to Pakistan on 1 March 1994 and renamed PNS Badr .
Based on updated Type 053H3 frigates. Design is also influenced from Type 054. The F-22P’s hull contains type 054 frigate’s radar cross-section reduction. First three ships were constructed in China and the fourth ship was built in Pakistan by Karachi Shipyard with transfer of technology. Oliver Hazard Perry class
HMS. Ambuscade. (F172) HMS Ambuscade was a Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland. She entered service in 1975. Ambuscade took part in the Falklands War of 1982. Ambuscade was sold to Pakistan in 1993 and served their navy as PNS Tariq until 2023.
After the successful negotiations took place between Pakistan and the United Kingdom to procure the entire fleet of Type 21/Amazon frigates, she was decommissioned by the Royal Navy and a contingent of Pakistan Navy's personnel under Commander Muhammad Anwar arrived to receive training of her operations.: 126 She was commissioned in the ...
Flight deck and hangar. The Tariq-class destroyers were a class of guided missile destroyers of the Pakistan Navy. They were acquired from the British Royal Navy in 1993–94. The Tariq s were formerly commissioned in the Royal Navy's Surface Fleet as Type 21 ( Amazon -class) frigates, a general purpose frigate in the Royal Navy. [4]
On 1 June 2018, Pakistan Navy ordered four Type 054As. The ships are expected to enter service by 2021. The steel-cutting ceremony for the second Type 054A frigate for the Pakistan Navy (PN) was held in China on 19 December 2018, marking the beginning of construction of the vessel at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, China. [citation ...
PNS Tippu Sultan (DDG-185), a Tariq -class destroyer, 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 HMS Avenger as a general purpose frigate. [3]