My next wishlist is design of a boat in 850 to 870 tonnes class, enlargement of length of ship, more endurance, more anti missile defence so that these ships can accompany our frigate and add SSM punch in fleet for attack mission as well.
PNS Haibat design has been changed, it is bigger and better than Azmat class
- Tonnage has been increased from 560 to 673 Tons
- Anti-submarine Rockets have been added
- MR-36 B Radar has been added (azmat didn't had that)
- 6x30mm Rapid-fire weapon has been added (instead of 1x23mm)
- New ESM...
Need further working by MTC and a ship redesigned to tonnage of 850-870 tonnes, in second step to 1200-1300 tonnes ship in second stage till we move on to our own corvette/frigate/destroyer and aircraft carrier design in steps.
Design is now indigenous, probably MTC studied the previous design and new boat with increase weight of around 100 tonnes with design improvement, further increased and number of weapons. Hopefully MTC should now go towards a 850-900 tonnes weightage class boat.
This was second ship on trial on 12 November leaving sea port, so I can surely say that above pictures are of 3rd ship electronics and weapon integration completion. We should soon see news on completion of trial of PNS Tipu Sultan the second ship and its induction ceremony in Pakistan Navy. Any...
Since Type-054 AP has endurance of 15000 KM, so i think this ship is undergoing endurance testing that is why even after a month plus is still away from its destination.
There is news in a youtube video that first ship has sailed to Pakistan and will be inducted in Pakistan Navy in next few days. Can any source vet the news. Waiting for it anxiously.