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Eponymously christened after the former-Daphné-class submarines that the PN operated between 1970 and 2006, the class is an export derivative of the Chinese-origin Type 039A attack submarine, currently operated by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). [6]
The Pakistani Azmat-class is the modernized version according to the requirements of Pakistan Navy. [4] The project was jointly designed and constructed in Pakistan and China after a partnership agreement was signed between two Chinese contractors, China State Shipbuilding Corporation and the Xingang Shipyard and the Pakistan-based KSEW Ltd. [5]
The second and third submarines would be purchased during the remainder of the 11-year period. [35] [36] In May 2017, the Royal Thai Navy and Thai Government signed a contract for one S26T variant of the submarine in a $390 million deal. Orders for an additional two submarines are expected in the coming years. [37]
In 2015, Pakistan signed a $5 billion deal with China to acquire eight Type 039 Yuan-class and Type 041 attack submarines. KSEW was set to build four of these submarines in Pakistan, while China the remaining four. Delivery of the first four submarines was initially planned for 2023 but was delayed to 2024.
The SEAL team’s legacy was forever secured two years later when it conducted a daring nighttime raid on bin Laden’s Pakistani compound in 2011, killing the mastermind behind al Qaeda’s 9/11 ...
The Pakistan Navy Special Service Group (reporting name: Navy SSG or simply Pakistan Navy SEALs, [1] [2]) is the special operations force tasked with the conducting the small-unit based military operations in all environmental formats of the sea, air, and land by adopting to the tactics of the unconventional warfare.
Eight submarines are on order - with the first four being built in China by the China Shipbuilding Trading Company (CSOC) and the last four being built in Pakistan by the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works (KSEW). [7] The first four submarines are expected to be delivered by 2025, while the last four are expected to be delivered by 2028. [8]
The Pakistan Navy had long evinced interest in purchasing Chinese-origin vessels; the service is known to have operated Chinese-origin naval platform since the 1970s. [16] In 2001, Pakistan purchased the Zulfiquar -class frigates (F-22P) - a series of four frigates based on the design of the Chinese-origin Type 053H3 frigate .