Alamgir Class Frigate(s) Of The Pakistani Navy

Alamgir Class Frigate(s) Of The Pakistani Navy

Class:  Oliver Hazard Perry

Origin: United States

Displacement: 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load

Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h)

Endurance: 5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)

Length : 453 feet (138m)

Beam: 45 feet (14m)

Draft: 22 feet (6.7m)

Armament: Specified later in the blog( In detail)

PNS Alamgir (USS McInerney [FFG 8) is a former Oliver Hazard Perry class ship of The United States Navy. Before joining the Pakistani Navy the frigate had undergone major seven month overhaul. This job was executed at BAE Southeast shipyards. 

Pakistan bought this ship from the US at a bargain price of around 78 millions including refurbishment costs. 

She was commissioned into the Pakistani navy on 31 August 2010. She left the American waters on 10 February 2011.The commissioning happened at Mayport Naval Station in Florida, United States.

All the 4 diesel engines were removed and then overhauled. The refrigeration and air conditioning units were restored. The fuel oil tanks and the voids had been cleaned, repaired and then they were repainted. Other repairs and replacement were also done to the pitch propeller system, ventilators, breakers, windlass, NR3 switchboards and others. The new Perry was also furnished with a  new navigation suite,bridge and a new VIP cabin.

COMMISSIONING OF PNS ALAMGIR 

Fact : Pakistan is the ninth operator of Perry class ships.

Weaponry :

Guns:

The ship's primary gun is  the Oto Melara mk75, 76 mm naval gun which is capable of firing 6kg anti-aircraft shells at a range of 12 km and anti-surface shells at a range 16 km.

The ships carry four general-purpose 12.7mm machine guns and can be fitted with 25mm mk38 guns.

CIWS: 

The CIWS aboard PNS Alamgir is the typical Raytheon mk15 block 1B Phalanx six-barrel 20mm gun. Commonly known as Phalanx.

The CIWS is capable of firing 4,500 rounds per minute against surface and airborne incoming threats including high speed craft. 

Torpedoes:

The ship is equipped with two deck-mounted mk32 triple-tube torpedo tubes. It carries the Alliant 

 Techsystems (ATK) mk46 mod 5 lightweight anti-submarine torpedoes and the ATK mk50 torpedo.

The mk46 variant have a range of 11 km and are armed with a 44 kg warhead.

The mk50 variant have a range of 15 km and are armed with a 45 kg warhead.

Missiles:

PNS Alamgir retains the missile system capability with the ability to launch Boeing Harpoon Surface-to-surface missile and Raytheon Standard SM-1MR Surface-to-air missile.

Aircraft carried:

PNS Alamgir usually carries Westland Sea Kings. It has also been seen carrying Chinese made Harbin Z-9.

Westland Sea King

Chinese Naval Harbin Z-9

PS- I'll keep on adding info to this blog as I get to know more about this ship.

Mongolian Navy (The Navy Of Seven Men)

Historically, The  Mongolian Navy was one of the largest Navies in the world.
It lost almost its entire naval armada in the failed invasion of Japan.

Currently, The Mongolian Navy boasts of possessing the largest naval fleet in the world which consists of only one vessel that too a tugboat!!!

Sukhbaatar III

Displacement : That of a typical Tugboat
Armament : None
Crew : 7
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This ship was named after Damdiny Sukhbaatar, the Mongolian leader who drove China out in the 1920s.

The primary task of this tugboat is to transport oil from north of the Lake Khovsgol to points south and west .

Sukhbaatar suplements its income by hauling freight across the lake. 
Fun Fact : Only one out of the 7 crew members knows how to swim.

THE PRIDE OF THE MONGOLIAN NAVY