PNS Babur (D-182)
PNS Babur (D-182) in the Persian Gulf in 2004. | |
| History | |
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| Pakistan | |
| Name | PNS Babur |
| Namesake | Babur |
| Builder | Vosper Thornycroft in England |
| Laid down | 6 November 1969 |
| Launched | 26 April 1971 |
| Acquired | 18 January 1994 |
| Recommissioned | 30 September 1993 |
| Decommissioned | December 2014 |
| In service | 1993–2014 |
| Out of service | After decommissioning, the Babar was being towed to open waters for missile target practice when it unexpectedly sank due to flooding, approximately 14 nautical miles from Karachi Port. |
| Homeport | Naval Base Karachi |
| Identification | Pennant number: D-182 |
| Status | Decommissioned—After decommissioning, the Babar was being towed to open waters for missile target practice when it unexpectedly sank due to flooding, approximately 14 nautical miles from Karachi Port. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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) |
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| 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: contents |
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| Aviation facilities | Flight deck and hangar |
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PNS Babur (D-182) was a Tariq-class destroyer that served in the Surface Command of the Pakistan Navy from 1993 until being decommissioned in 2014. Before commissioning in the Pakistan Navy, she served in the Royal Navy, formerly designated as HMS Amazon as a general purpose frigate.
Upon being acquired by Pakistan in 1993, she went through a modernization and refitting program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi in 1998–2002 to be classified as destroyer.