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A welcome developmentRussian, Pakistani Navies Commence Drills in Arabian Sea
17:07 07.12.2015
Russian and Pakistani naval teams started drills in the Arabian Sea.
© AP PHOTO/ FRANCOIS MORI
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The crew of the Russian Navy's Vice-Admiral Kulakov, an Udaloy-class destroyer, has commenced the Arabian monsoon-2015 anti-drug joint exercises with Pakistan in the Arabian Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry’s Northern Fleet spokesman Vadim Serga said Tuesday.
"Besides Russian sailors, Russia's Federal Drug Control Service and the special forces, ships and helicopters of the Pakistan Navy are taking part in the exercises in the north of the Arabian Sea," the spokesman said.
Russian sailors practiced cooperation with Pakistan's special forces, in particular, a rapid response team was transported to the warship by a Pakistani helicopter.
Besides, a Ka-27 Russian naval helicopter and a Pakistani Harbin Z-9EC helicopter practiced a search scenario of a vessel suspected of illicit drug trafficking.
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when we are getting new first submarine from china
ohh its way to long we are getting our first in mid of 2016 every year we will get two of themTechnically, they are being built. 4 will be built in Pakistan, 4 in China. Construction will start in 2016. When will it be finished? God knows. I would hope 2018, but 2020 seems more realistic.
Islamabad: China will construct six patrol vessels for Pakistan’s Maritime Security Agency under an agreement signed here on Wednesday.
Four vessels will be built in China and the remaining two in Karachi under a technology transfer agreement signed at the Defence Production Ministry in Rawalpindi.
The documents were signed by M/s China Ship Trading Company and the Pakistani government.
The ministry’s spokesperson said the acquisition of new ships would boost the maritime agency’s operational preparedness to protect resources in Pakistan’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
do we know the type of the patrol vessels?
not disclosed by government but most probably s20What are its likely displacement and specifications?
not disclosed by government but most probably s20
So I see the PN couldn't (or wouldn't) get 6 surplus SH-60 Seahawk helicopters... *sigh* ...