PNS ''Badr'' (D-184) was the that served in the Surface Command of the Pakistan Navy from 1994 until being decommissioned from the service in 2014. Before joining the Pakistan Navy, she was formerly designated as of the British

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as a general purpose frigate, and went through an extensive refit and midlife upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi to have mission status to be properly qualified as the destroyer.

Service history

Acquisition, construction, and modernization

She was designed and constructed by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Ltd. at

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and was

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on 5 March 1973; eventually, she was launched on 18 September 1974. After a series of

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s, she was commissioned on 2 July 1977 in the Surface Fleet of the

as . During her service with the Royal Navy, she was notable for her wartime operations during the Falklands War with

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. On 1 March 1994, she was purchased by

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after the successful negotiation with the

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and sailed off from Port of Plymouth to the

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, arriving on 26 June 1994. Upon arriving in Karachi, she underwent an extensive modernization and mid-life upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi in 1998–2002. In 2005, she was deployed to join the

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led by the

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to engage in the relief efforts for the earthquake that struck the northern part of the Pakistan on 8 October 2005. Her wartime performance included in deployments in patrolling off the Horn of Africa, Gulf of Oman,

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, and

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as part of the CTF-150. In 2014, it was reported that PNS ''Badr'' was decommissioned from service.

Gallery

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Badr (D-184) 1974 ships Tariq-class destroyers Ships built in Pakistan 2005 Kashmir earthquake