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Badr 1977

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
بدر [Badr] (ex-Gabbard)	D47, 1963- D161		Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK	5/1943	16.3.1945	4/1946 // 29.2.1956	MSA 1985, stricken 1989
خیبر [Khaibar] (ex-Cadiz)	D79, 1963- D163		Fairfield, Govan, UK	2/1944	16.9.1944	12/1946 // 29.2.1956	sunk 5.12.1971

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2325
Displacement full, t	3361
Length, m	108.2 pp 115.5 oa
Breadth, m	12.3
Draught, m	4.62 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	50000
Max speed, kts	35.75
Fuel, t	oil 727, diesel oil 40
Endurance, nm(kts)	4400(20)
Armament	2 x 2 - 114/45 Mk 4, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, 2 x 2 - 40/60 STAAG Mk 2, 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 1 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk 3 ASWRL
Electronic equipment	2x type 262, type 275, 2x type 282, type 291, type 293 radars, type 144Q, type 147B sonars
Complement	186 - 222

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Project history

British 'Battle' class destroyers, modernized and refitted with US MDAP funds. Badr was handed over by Pakistan Navy 24.1.1957, and Khaibar 1.2.1957.

Modernizations

1970s, Badr: - 2 x 2 - 40/60 STAAG, 1 x 1 - 40/60, 1 x 4 - 533 TT, type 262, 2x type 282, type 291 radars, type 144Q, type 147B sonars; + type 975, SNW-10 radars, type 170, type 174 sonars

Naval service

Khaibar  was sunk 5.12.1971 off Karachi by Indian missile FAC of Project 205. Badr became HQ ship of the new Maritime Safety Agency in 1985.