Hangor-class submarine

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The Hangor-class submarines are a class of diesel–electric attack submarines currently being manufactured by a joint-partnership of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) and the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works (KSEW) for the Pakistan Navy (PN). Eponymously christened after PNS Hangor, a Daphné-class submarine that sank an Indian frigate in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War, the class is an export derivative of the Chinese-origin Type 039A attack submarine, currently operated by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). First unveiled to the public in 2018, the future submarines are envisaged to undertake anti-access/area denial operations within Pakistan's exclusive economic zone, through the use of heavyweight torpedoes and anti-ship cruising missiles. Pakistan's Ministry of Defence (MoD) ordered eight submarines from China in 2015, at an approximate cost of US$4–5 billion, making it the largest arms export contract in China's military history. Of the eight ordered examples...

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