PNS Munsif (M166)
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This article is about the ship built in 1988. Not to be confused with the Adjutant-class ship of the same name, commissioned in 1959.
For other ships with the same name, see French ship Sagittaire.
PNS Munsif (M166) (formerly Sagittaire (M650)) is the lead ship of the Munsif-class minehunter currently in service with the Pakistan Navy.[3]
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PNS Munsif (M166) Conducting Mine Countermeasure Operations off Makran Coast in Indian Ocean. | |
History | |
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France | |
Name | Sagittaire |
Builder | Lorient Arsenal, Lorient |
Launched | 9 November 1988 |
Commissioned | 27 July 1989 |
Identification | M650 |
Fate | Sold to Pakistan |
Pakistan | |
Name | Munsif |
Acquired | 24 September 1992 |
Commissioned | 26 October 1992 |
Homeport | Karachi Naval Dockyard |
Identification | M166 |
Status | Ship in active service |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Munsif-class minehunter |
Displacement |
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Length | 51.6 m (169 ft) |
Beam | 8.96 m (29.4 ft) |
Height | 18.5 m (61 ft) |
Draught | 3.50 m (11.5 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Range | 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × PAP 104 ROV |
Complement | 55 (10 officers, 45 Enlists): 174 [2] |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Aérospatiale Alouette III |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck |
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PNS Munsif is based on the French design, the Tripartite-class minehunter, and actively served in the French Navy as the minehunter Sagittaire (M650) before being refitted according to the Pakistani military's service when the Pakistan Navy had bought her in 1992.[4]