PNS Khaibar (DDG-183) is the Tariq-class destroyer currently in active duty in the Surface Command of the Pakistan Navy since 1994.[3]

PNS Khaibar (DDG-183) (first vessel on bottom on the left) assemble in a formation led by the German frigate Augsburg participating in the Combined Task Force-150 in the Indian Ocean in 2004.
History
Pakistan
Name	PNS Khaibar
Namesake	Khaibar[1]
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders in Scotland
Laid down	4 December 1971
Launched	5 February 1974
Acquired	1 March 1994
Recommissioned	26 June 1994
In service	1994–2022
Homeport	Naval Base Karachi
Identification	Pennant number: DDG-183
Fate	Sunk as a target during SEASPARK-2022 naval exercise.[2]
Status	Decommissioned
General characteristics
Class and type	Tariq-class frigate
Displacement	3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load
Beam	41 ft 9 in (12.73 m)
Draught	19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Decks	09
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 nautical miles (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 4 × 6-cell LY-60N SAM launcher 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
Aircraft carried	1 × Alouette III helicopter 1 × Camcopter S-100 UAV
Aviation facilities	Flight deck and hangar

Prior to be commissioned in the service of the Pakistan Navy in 1994, she served in the Royal Navy, formerly designated as HMS Arrow as a general purpose frigate.[4] The modernization and midlife upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi reclassified her status as guided missile destroyer.[5]

Service history

Acquisition, construction, and modernization

Designed and constructed by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Ltd. at Glasgow in Scotland, she was laid down on 28 September 1972, and was launched on 5 February 1974.[4] She commissioned on 29 July 1976 in the Surface Fleet of the Royal Navy as HMS Arrow.[4] During her service with the Royal Navy, she was notable for her wartime operations during the Falklands War with Argentina.[6]

On 1 March 1994, she was purchased by Pakistan after the successful negotiation with the United Kingdom and sailed from the Port of Plymouth to the Port of Karachi, arriving on 26 June 1994.[7]

Upon arriving in Karachi, she underwent an extensive modernization and a mid-life upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi in 1998–2002.[4]

She was named after the battle of Khaybar in Medina in the year 628,[8] and was commissioned on 1 March 1994.[8][9]

Her wartime performance included in deployments in patrolling off the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea as well as deploying in the Mediterranean Sea when she was part of the multinational CTF-150.[10]

Gallery

• 
  A Navy's VBSS Team member of the SSG(N) stands in security aboard PNS Khaibar during the VBSS drill with British Special Boat Service in 2009.
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  PNS Khaibar (Fifth vessel on the left), in a formation of assigned to Combined Task Force 150 led by Italian Scirocco in the Indian Ocean in 2006.

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.

Media files

• "PNS KHAIBAR and PNS NASR visiting Mauritius". YouTube. 14 January 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.