Pakistan's 4th Type 054AP Tughril-class frigate launched by Chinese shipbuilder

 

The 4th Type 054AP Tughril-class frigate for the Pakistan Navy during launch on 23 December 2021. Photo c/o Naval News

Chinese shipbuilder Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard has launched the Pakistan Navy's forth Chinese-built Type 054AP Tughril-class guided missile frigate.

The ship was launched on 23 December 2021 at the company's shipyard near Shanghai, together with the 34th Type 054A frigate for China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), and a Type 071E landing platform dock for the Royal Thai Navy (RTN).

The ship is part of a 2-unit follow-on order made by the Pakistani Government on June 2018, after ordering 2 frigates in 2017.

The first of class PNS Tughril (F261) was commissioned on 8 November 2021, while two other ships of the class are in different stages of construction, also with Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard.

The Type 054A/P Tughril-cass displaces at over 4,000 tonnes, is 135 meters long, and are are armed with a 32-cell Vertical Launch System (VLS), equipped with the HHQ-16 surface-to-air missiles (SAM) and the Yu-8 anti-submarine rockets (ASROC), 2 quadruple CM-302 supersonic anti-ship cruise missile launchers, a PJ-26 76 mm main naval gun, 2 triple Anti-Submarine Torpedo launchers, 2 Type 87 Anti-Submarine rocket launchers, two Type 726-4 18-tube decoy rocket launchers and two Type 1130 close-in weapon systems (CIWS).




[1] Naval News
[2] Asia Pacific Defense Journal
[3] The News Pakistan