Pakistan Navy's FAC-4, a First Indigenously produced warship, launched at Karachi Shipyard

[Imran Khan]

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[NeonNinja]

Good development for our Navy.

 

[Pakistan Ka Beta]

Ma Sha ALLAH . Long awaited .

 

[The Eagle]

First indigenously produced FAC for Pakistan Navy.
Congrats to everyone.

 

[Gryphon]

Should be followed with 2 additional Damen corvettes.

 

[dBSPL]

May Allah(cc) bless her and all who sail in her.

 

[mudas777]

Best news of the year after shooting down the Indian plane and so much doom and gloom and Mulana diesel darhanas and price rises and IMF and so forth. It goes to shows if we really want something and put resources and minds to it we can do anything. It makes us our nation proud.

 

[Indos]

Good development, corvette and OPV should be made inside the country.

 

[God Parshuram]

Photographs Please.

 

[HRK]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1199615311407915008

The keel laying ceremony of this forth FAC(M) which was held in March 30, 2017 (click here) and today it is launched which mean it took around 32 months for making 560 tonnes vessel; this is not somewhat satisfactory but OK, now it will go for sea trials which may take another 6 months if everything goes accordingly otherwise more time will be consumed this mean as of now its take almost 3-3.5 years for us to make a small FAC(M) in-house and to operationally induct in PN

A very humble beginning, a very small first step, but we must improve it further and need to give more orders to Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works at least of the same class to make them more Proficient in ship building ad designing at least 2 more ships of the same class or something based on this is required to buildup our shipbuilding capabilities .....

 

[The Accountant]

Any details on configuration?

 

[Yaseen1]

who was the lady addressing this ceremony?

 

[Haris Ali2140]

who was the lady addressing this ceremony?

Don't know the exacts but she is related to defence productions and procurements.

 

[Yaseen1]

nice to see women playing important role in such difficult fields

Don't know the exacts but she is related to defence productions and procurements.

 

[Gryphon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1199615311407915008

The keel lying ceremony of this forth FAC(M) which was held in March 30, 2017 (click here) and today it is launched which mean it took around 32 months for making 560 tonnes vessel; this is not somewhat satisfactory but OK, now it will go for sea trials which may take another 6 months if everything goes accordingly otherwise more time will be consumed this mean as of now its take almost 3-3.5 years for us to make a small FAC(M) in-house and to operationally induct in PN

A very humble beginning, a very small first step, but we must improve it further and need to give more orders to Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works at least of the same class to make them more Proficient in ship building ad designing at least 2 more ships of the same class or something based on this is required to buildup our shipbuilding capabilities .....

Steel cutting in December 2016.

Any details on configuration?

This ship is a state of the art, multi mission corvette having a length and breadth of 63 m and 8.8 m, respectively. The design draught of the ship is 2.46 m and displacement of 560 tons. The ship has maximum speed of 30 knots and a range of 1000 Nautical Miles. This ship is propelled by 04 Diesel Engines, 04 Propulsion Shafts with Fixed Pitch Propellers. The ship carries surface to surface missiles, 25 mm gun, CIWS, surface search and tracking radars. It has a stealthier design with state of the art combat system.

https://www.karachishipyard.com.pk/ongoing-projects/

who was the lady addressing this ceremony?

Minister for Defence Production, Zubaida Jalal.