The Tariq class frigates are ex-Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 Type 21 frigate

Type 21 frigate

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s acquired by the Pakistan Navy

Pakistan Navy

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 from the United Kingdom

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 in 1993-94. Although the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 classified these ships as frigates, they are classed as destroyers by the Pakistan Navy

Pakistan Navy

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They were bought in order to replace the Garcia class

Garcia class frigate

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 and Brooke class frigates

USS Brooke (FFG-1)

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 which, due to the Pressler Amendment, Pakistan had to return to the United States

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 at the end of their five-year lease

Lease

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The Pakistanis have tested a Camcopter S-100

Camcopter S-100

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 helicopter Unmanned aerial vehicles from a Type 21 helideck.

Ships

• Babur (ex-)
• Shah Jahan (ex-)
• Tariq (ex-)
• Khaibar (ex-)
• Badr (ex-)
• Tippu Sultan (ex-)