PNS Badr (D-184) was the Tariq-class destroyer that served in the Surface Command of the Pakistan Navy from 1994 until being decommissioned from the service in 2014.[2]

PNS Badr (D-184) in Northern Persian Gulf in 2005.
History
Pakistan
Name	PNS Badr
Namesake	Badr
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders in Scotland
Laid down	28 September 1972
Launched	18 September 1974
Acquired	1 March 1994
Recommissioned	26 June 1994
In service	1994–2014
Homeport	Naval Base Karachi
Identification	Pennant number: D-184
Status	Decommissioned.[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Tariq-class destroyer
Displacement	3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load
Length	384 ft (117 m)
Beam	41 ft 9 in (12.73 m)
Draught	19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Propulsion	COGOG: 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1A gas turbines for cruising
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement	192, 14 officers, 178 enlisted
Armament	1 × Vickers 4.5 in (114 mm)/55 Mk.8 AS/AA gun (25rds/min to 22 km/11.9nmi) 1 × Phalanx CIWS 2 × triple STWS-1 torpedo launchers (for Mk 46 LWTs) 2 × 4-cell Mk 141 launchers (for Harpoon SSMs) 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
Aircraft carried	1 × Lynx HAS.3 helicopter 1 × Camcopter S-100 UAV
Aviation facilities	Flight deck and hangar

Before joining the Pakistan Navy, she was formerly designated as HMS Alacrity of the British Royal Navy as a general purpose frigate, and went through an extensive refit and midlife upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi to have mission status to be properly qualified as the destroyer.[3]

Service history

Acquisition, construction, and modernization

She was designed and constructed by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Ltd. at Glasgow in Scotland and was laid down on 5 March 1973; eventually, she was launched on 18 September 1974.[3] After a series of sea trials, she was commissioned on 2 July 1977 in the Surface Fleet of the Royal Navy as HMS Alacrity.[3] During her service with the Royal Navy, she was notable for her wartime operations during the Falklands War with Argentina.[4]

On 1 March 1994, she was purchased by Pakistan after the successful negotiation with the United Kingdom and sailed off from Port of Plymouth to the Port of Karachi, arriving on 26 June 1994.[5]

Upon arriving in Karachi, she underwent an extensive modernization and mid-life upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi in 1998–2002.[3]

In 2005, she was deployed to join the expeditionary strike group led by the U.S. Navy to engage in the relief efforts for the earthquake that struck the northern part of the Pakistan on 8 October 2005.[6]

Her wartime performance included in deployments in patrolling off the Horn of Africa, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean as part of the CTF-150.[7][8]

In 2014, it was reported that PNS Badr was decommissioned from service.[1]

Gallery

• 
  PNS Badr steams alongside USS Tarawa, an amphibious assault ship, in the Northern Persian Gulf, participating in the relief operation for the earthquake that struck the northern part of the Pakistan on 8 October 2005.
• 
  PNS Badr anchored with the Chinese Navy Guangzhou, the American USS Lake Champlain, and USS Theodore Roosevelt (the aircraft carrier in background) during the naval drill, Aman-09, hosted by Pakistan in the Indian Ocean in 2009.
• 
  PNS Badr steams alongside USS Tarawa in Northern Persian Gulf to participate in the relief operations in Northern Pakistan in 2005.

References

External links

• "PNS Tariq". www.paknavy.gov.pk. ISPR Navy. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
• "Tariq (Amazon) Class (TYPE 21) (DD/FF) « PakDef Military Consortium". pakdef.org.