PNS Nasr


PNS Nasr , is a Fuqing-class replenishment tanker currently in service with the Pakistan Navy. She was designed, constructed, and built by the Dalian Shipbuilding Co. in China as a Type-095/Fuqing class in 1980, and purchased by the Pakistan Navy in 1985.
After undergoing a refit to gain the capability to act as a replenishment tanker, she was commissioned in the Pakistan Navy on 26 August 1987, and is currently in service.

Description

Procurement, acquisition and deployment

Before commissioning in the Pakistan Navy, she was designed, built, and constructed by the Dalian Shipbuilding Co. in China, and briefly served in the Chinese Navy as a Type 095-class replenishment tanker in 1978. In 1985, Pakistan Navy reportedly entered in successful negotiation of the acquiring Type 095/Fuqing-class replenishment tanker with an agreement signed in 1986.
She was refitted and modernized according to the Pakistani military's standards and specifications at the Dalian Shipbuilding Co., the replenishment tanker was acquired in a ceremony attended by the Chinese and Pakistani military and civil dignitaries on 1 August 1987. After her refit according to Pakistani military standards, her displacement stands about with an endurance range of. She has an overall length of, a beam of and a draught of.
in 2017.
She was commissioned in the Navy as PNS Nasr on 26 August 1987. PNS Nasr has a complement of 396 personnel, including 23 officers and 373 enlisted, with addition of three battalions of the Pakistan Marines.
In addition, PNS Nasr has the aviation facilities and a flight deck and hangar for either the Alouette III or Westland Sea King Mk. 45 helicopters.
In 2003−04, PNS Nasr, alongside with was deployed in the Chittagong port in Bangladesh to support the Bangladeshi Navy. In 2006, she was visited Langkawi in Malaysia before reporting back her homeport.
She took active participation in Tsunami relief Operations in 2004 at Maldives having the distinction to undertake the very first rescue operation in that country by any other country.
In 2017, Nasr paid a goodwill visit, alongside with, to Sri Lanka, harbouring at the Port of Colombo to support the activities of Sri Lankan Navy.
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.