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Pakistani navy oiler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PNS Nasr (A47) is a Type 905 replenishment oiler of the Pakistan Navy. The oiler was constructed in the People's Republic of China by the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company and entered service in 1987.[3][4]
PNS Nasr (A47) in Colombo Harbour in Sri Lanka in 2017. | |
History | |
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Pakistan | |
Name | Nasr |
Builder | Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company |
Launched | 14 March 1986[1] |
Acquired | 1986 |
Commissioned | 1 August 1987[2] |
In service | 26 August 1987[2] |
Homeport | Karachi Naval Dockyard |
Identification | A47[3] |
Status | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type 905 replenishment oiler |
Displacement | 22,099 tons (full load)[4] |
Length | 171 metres (561 ft)[4] |
Beam | 21.8 metres (72 ft)[4] |
Draught | 9.4 metres (31 ft)[4] |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)[4] |
Range | 18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km; 21,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)[4] |
Capacity | 10,550 tons of fuel oil, 1000 tons of diesel, 200 tons of feed water, 200 tons of drinking water[4] |
Complement | |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried |
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Aviation facilities | flight deck and hangar[4] |
Nasr was ordered by Pakistan in late-1986 and completed to Pakistani requirements.[5] She entered service in 1987.[2]
A Phalanx CIWS was installed in 1995;[4] it may have come from the retired County-class destroyer PNS Babur.[1]
On 21 October 1998, the oiler suffered minor damage from being rammed by the commercial tanker Sun Marsat at Karachi.[1]
In April 2003, Nasr and PNS Babur deployed to the Port of Chittagong in Bangladesh to support the Bangladeshi Navy.[6] In 2006, she visited Langkawi in Malaysia before reporting back her homeport.[7]
She provided relief to the Maldives after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and was the first foreign contingent to start rescue operations there.[8]
Nasr participated in the 2014 Kakadu military exercise in Australia. A crewman deserted on September 7 at around 04:30 while the ship was docked at Darwin; he was found on September 8.[9]
In 2017, Nasr paid a goodwill visit, along with PNS Khaibar, to Sri Lanka, harbouring at the Port of Colombo to support the activities of Sri Lankan Navy.[8]
In 2018, Nasr and Khaibar, under the command of Commodore Javaid Iqbal, paid a goodwill visit to Tanzania, Mauritius, and Kenya to support their navies activities.[10]
In 2021, Nasr under the command of Capt Misbah ul Amin TI(M) conducted a disaster relief mission in Africa, sailing to Port Sudan, Djibouti,[11] and Cotonou,[12] and delivering 1,000 tonnes of rice as humanitarian aid from Pakistan to Djibouti, Sudan, Benin and Niger.[13] It also conducted a goodwill visit to Mombasa, Kenya.[13]
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