NAVYPEDIA

Photo

Shamser 1997 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
ذولفقار [Zulfiquar] (ex-Apollo)	F262	1002	Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	21.11.1969	15.10.1970	28.5.1972 // 14.10.1988	stricken 2002
شمشیر [Shamsher] (ex-Diomede)	F263	2366	Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	30.1.1968	15.4.1969	2.4.1971 // 15.7.1988	stricken 2007

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2660
Displacement full, t	3120
Length, m	109.7 pp 113.4 oa
Breadth, m	13.1
Draught, m	4.50 mean 5.50 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets White-English Electric Y-160 geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	30000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	oil 500
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(12)
Armament	F262: 1 x 4 Sea Cat GWS22 SAM (12 Sea Cat), 1 x 2 - 120/45 Mk 6, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 9, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL, 1 helicopter (Alouette III) F263: 1 x 4 Sea Cat GWS22 SAM (12 Sea Cat), 1 x 2 - 120/45 Mk 6, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL, 1 helicopter (Alouette III)
Electronic equipment	type 1006, type 965 AKE-1, type 994, type 903, type 904 radars, type 170B, type 162M, type 184P sonars, UA-8/9, type 668 ECM suites, 2x Corvus decoy RL, type 182 torpedo decoy
Complement	235

Standard scale images

Graphics

Project history

broad-beamed Leander class frigates bought from RN in 1988.

Modernizations

1994, Zulfiquar: - 1 x 4 Sea Cat SAM, 1 x 2 - 20/70, 4 x 1 - 20/70, type 904 radar; + 3 x2 - 25/80 type 61M, nav. radar

1994, Shamsher: - 1 x 4 Sea Cat SAM, 2 x 1 - 20/70, type 904 radar; + 3 x 2 - 25/80 type 61M, nav. radar

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.