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Name | PNS Muhafiz (M 163)[1] |
Builder | Bellingham Shipyards Co., Bellingham, Washington, USA[1] |
Laid down | as AMS-138[1] |
Commissioned | 6 February 1955[1] |
Fate | Sunk by INS Veer on 4 December 1971[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Adjutant-class minesweeper[1] |
Displacement | 362 tons [1] |
Length | 144 ft 3 in (43.97 m)[1] |
Beam | 27 ft 2 in (8.28 m)[1] |
Draught | 12 ft (3.7 m)[1] |
Propulsion | 2 × 880 bhp (656 kW) General Motors 8-268A diesel engines[1] |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)[1] |
Complement | 40[1] |
Armament | 1 × twin 20-mm[1] |
PNS Muhafiz was an Adjutant-class minesweeper of the Pakistan Navy.[2] It was built by the United States for transfer to Pakistan.[2] PNS Muhafiz was sunk by a missile from INS Veer of the Indian Navy during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.[1][2]
PNS Zulfiqar (K265) of Pakistan was also damaged beyond repair by friendly fire from aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) which mistook her for a missile boat of the Indian Navy during the same war.[3] India also lost INS Khukri in this war.[4][5]
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