I discretely remember someone calling it on this forum 'the most Innovative' among 3 military branches.
There's absolutely NOTHING which PN does equates to innovation. Actually associating "innovation" with PN is perhaps the most absurd use of word innovation.
I will start with basics, lets first visit PN official website:
What's the impression you get ? What i get is its an official website of an organisation which is not even professional forget about being innovative. The IT department updates its homepage regularly but content inside is atleast 10 years old, spelling mistakes, grammar, design, layout its actually worst then a 5th grade student personal site.
Now all the "ToTs" done are speaking out loud that innovation and PN are two entirely opposite things. An organization which were given ToT for F-22P frigate was again needed ToT for much smaller 560 ton Azmat Class FACs. An innovative force would have designed something on their own, would have saved foreign exchange, come out with efficient solutions. But the thing is if the organization is corrupt you can never be innovative. (Proven cases of corruptions in Type21s, agosta subs ) . Also, PN paid twice the amounts for ToTs and end result was that it was unable to make even a single unit on its own whether its agosta sub or F-22P. Forget building on their own and using some innovations. They can't even upgrade on their own. Needed Turkish to do it for them. They even needed Turkish firm to do make Orama naval base features. Innovative ? huh
The PN deployment of Ships is again shows that its leadership doesn't really care to be prepared for worst case scenarios. Most of the times 90% fleet is seen stacked in Karachi. Even upto 4 ships stacked together. A single missile hit will guarantee to disable all 4 of these. Supersonic missile takes less then 3 mins from LOC to reach Karachi and it will take hours to undock & deploy these 4 ships which are stacked. Sailors using single path. Plus the first two ships cannot go until sailors of last ship are onboard. Ideally fleet should be in multiple naval bases and in each base the ships should be on separate docking berths. PN's doing opposite, stacking ships all together in a single base. Its like invitation. There aren't any CIWS / point defense sites visible in karachi port either. The ones only at ships but docked ships without sailers onboard won't defend automatically. PN leadership needs to understand this is not 70s or 80s. The enemy can see your docked ships through satellites and with exact coordinates it will take 2-3 mins to reach at you. We don't have a big navy or a vast coastline or multiple bases. We are in immediate proximity / well in-range of enemy cruise missiles range.
So let's forget about "innovation". Someone must be really high to label PN as innovative. If any service is professional among three is airforce. I see their bases, the aircrafts everything spaced out, within hardened aircraft hangars. I know a single strike won't take out multiple aircrafts. Then the fact they made use of Thunder program, the program is super successful. Nothing of this sort PN could replicate. I can only hope they improve themselves and maybe they do the Jinnah frigates program in a much better way.
