PNS Nasr

PNS Nasr (A47) is a Type 905 replenishment oiler of the Pakistan Navy. The oiler was constructed in the People's Republic of China by the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company and entered service in 1987.^[3][4]

PNS Nasr (A47) in Colombo Harbour in Sri Lanka in 2017.
History
Pakistan
Name	Nasr
Builder	Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company
Launched	14 March 1986[1]
Acquired	1986
Commissioned	1 August 1987[2]
In service	26 August 1987[2]
Homeport	Karachi Naval Dockyard
Identification	A47[3]
Status	in active service
General characteristics
Class and type	Type 905 replenishment oiler
Displacement	22,099 tons (full load)[4]
Length	171 metres (561 ft)[4]
Beam	21.8 metres (72 ft)[4]
Draught	9.4 metres (31 ft)[4]
Propulsion	1 × Sulzer 8RL B66 diesel engine;[4] 1 shaft;[4] Total output: 13,000 hp (9,700 kW)[4]
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)[4]
Range	18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km; 21,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)[4]
Capacity	10,550 tons of fuel oil, 1000 tons of diesel, 200 tons of feed water, 200 tons of drinking water[4]
Complement	26 officers[1] 120 enlisted[1]
Sensors and processing systems	1 × Kelvin Hughes 1007 navigation radar[4] 1 × SPS-66 radar navigation radar[4]
Electronic warfare & decoys	Thales DR 3000 ESM[4] SRBOC Mk 36 chaff launcher[4] 2 × Rheinmetall MASS launchers[4]
Armament	1 × Phalanx CIWS[4] 2 × twin 37mm guns[4] 2 × 12.7mm machine guns[4]
Aircraft carried	1 × Aérospatiale Alouette III;[1] or 1 × Westland Sea King[1]
Aviation facilities	flight deck and hangar[4]

History

Nasr was ordered by Pakistan in late-1986 and completed to Pakistani requirements.^[5] She entered service in 1987.^[2]

A Phalanx CIWS was installed in 1995;^[4] it may have come from the retired County-class destroyer PNS Babur.^[1]

On 21 October 1998, the oiler suffered minor damage from being rammed by the commercial tanker Sun Marsat at Karachi.^[1]

In April 2003, Nasr and PNS Babur deployed to the Port of Chittagong in Bangladesh to support the Bangladeshi Navy.^[6] In 2006, she visited Langkawi in Malaysia before reporting back her homeport.^[7]

She provided relief to the Maldives after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and was the first foreign contingent to start rescue operations there.^[8]

Nasr participated in the 2014 Kakadu military exercise in Australia. A crewman deserted on September 7 at around 04:30 while the ship was docked at Darwin; he was found on September 8.^[9]

In 2017, Nasr paid a goodwill visit, along with PNS Khaibar, to Sri Lanka, harbouring at the Port of Colombo to support the activities of Sri Lankan Navy.^[8]

In 2018, Nasr and Khaibar, under the command of Commodore Javaid Iqbal, paid a goodwill visit to Tanzania, Mauritius, and Kenya to support their navies activities.^[10]

In 2021, Nasr under the command of Capt Misbah ul Amin TI(M) conducted a disaster relief mission in Africa, sailing to Port Sudan, Djibouti,^[11] and Cotonou,^[12] and delivering 1,000 tonnes of rice as humanitarian aid from Pakistan to Djibouti, Sudan, Benin and Niger.^[13] It also conducted a goodwill visit to Mombasa, Kenya.^[13]

See also

• China–Pakistan relations
  • China–Pakistan military relations