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Type 054 A/P Frigate For Pakistan Navy to Feature New Radar Configuration
Xavier Vavasseur 23 Dec 2020
The first-in-class frigate was launched in August 2020. Pakistan signed a first contract for the delivery two Type 054 A/P frigates in 2017. An additional contract for two more ships was announced in June 2018. The keel laying for the second vessel took place in March 2020. Steel cutting for the final two ships took place in November 2019. All four units are set to be built in China and delivered to the customer by 2021.

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Third Type 054A/P Frigate Launched for Pakistan in China

By HMID L
in CHINA, NAVAL, NEWS, PAKISTAN, SURFACE COMBATANT
August 6, 2021

A launching ceremony for the third of four multi-role frigates was held at Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, China on the fourth. The ship’s keel was laid just less than three months earlier in May of 2021. The first of the four frigates was launched in August of last year and is expected to be delivered along with the second by the end of 2021.
Pakistan first signed a contract for two Type 054A/P frigates, a modified version of the Chinese Type 054A, back in 2017. Pakistan procured an additional two the following year. According to the Pakistani Navy, these frigates are equipped with state of the art surface, subsurface, and air weapons systems and sensors and once deployed will serve as the most advanced ships serving the Pakistan Navy.
Pakistan’s navy is currently undergoing an important modernization effort for its fleet. Along with the Type 054 Frigates from China, it is currently undergoing procurement of several modern platforms including corvettes from Turkey with technology transfer, and Dutch Off-shore Patrol Vessels (OPVs). It has also contracted a Turkish firm to modernize its existing submarine fleet.
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