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Remaining MABs are built in Pakistan. [37] [38] MRTP-33/35 Fast patrol craft: 2 Turkey: PNS Zarrar PNS Karrar: 120 tons Few more MRTP-33 or MRTP-35 crafts are planned. [39] Larkana-class Gun boat: 1 Pakistan: PNS Larkana: 180 tons [40] Hovercraft Hovercraft: 14 United Kingdom: 10 tons Hovercraft are mostly used by Pakistan navy marines & SSG(N).
Traditionally a distinction used to be made between a coastal brown-water navy operating in the littoral zone to 200 nautical miles (or 370 kilometres) and an oceangoing blue-water navy. However, the United States Navy created a new term, green-water navy , to replace the term 'brown-water navy' in US Navy parlance.
Although first built as a racer/cruiser, the Alberg is now known as a traditional cruiser with medium-heavy displacement performance." [ 5 ] A review in Blue Water Boats described the design as "shapely" and noted that it was "originally designed as a racer cruiser, the Alberg 37 is better known today as a medium-heavy displacement bluewater ...
Dido-class cruisers of the Pakistan Navy (2 P) This page was last edited on 20 March 2013, at 13:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Coastal Command is a coastal defence and fortification command of the Pakistan Navy, operating under the authority of a two-star rear admiral or a three-star vice admiral Commander Coast (COMCOAST). It manages maritime and all creek coastal areas in the country. It is one of the seven component commands of the navy with offices in Karachi.
The boat is fitted with a Universal 40 36 hp (27 kW) diesel engine for docking and maneuvering. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The design has sleeping accommodation for six people, with a truncated double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, an L-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a quarter berth on the starboard side.
PNS Babur (1956), the former HMS Diadem (84), a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy; sold to Pakistan in 1956 and used as a training ship in 1961 until returning to service in 1963. PNS Babur (1982) , the former HMS London (D16) , a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy; sold to Pakistan in 1982; decommissioned in 1993 and sold for scrap in ...
[159]: 27 Besides the Naval Base Karachi, the PNS Dhaka in East Pakistan was the only naval base for the Pakistan Navy, dedicated for coastal operations only [160]: 24 After the Indian Navy's missile attacks in Karachi in 1971, the Navy concentrated on building and moving its operational assets in Balochistan , Punjab , and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa .