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Mar 6, 2023 15 tweets 8 min read
A Thread 🧵 on Pakistan 🇵🇰 Navy's Zulfiquar Class (F-22P) Guided Missile Frigates

The Zulfiquar Class frigate is a class of 3,000t multi-mission guided missile frigates, in service with the Pakistan Navy. It is based on a customized model of the Chinese design, the Type 053H3. The contract, valued at $750 million, for four F-22P frigates & six Harbin Z-9EC helicopters for the Pakistan Navy, was signed in May 2006. The contract also included ToT under which the construction and development of the last ship took place at KS&EW, Karachi.