PNS ''Tughril'' is the first of four Chinese built Type 054A/P ( Tughril-class)

frigate A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuvera ...

s named after Turkish emperor ordered by the

Pakistan Navy The Pakistan Navy (PN) (; ''romanized'': Pākistān Bahrí'a; ) is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The Chief of the Naval Staff, a four-star admiral, commands the navy and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Com ...

. It was commissioned on 8 November 2021. The Type 054A/P carries

HQ-16 The HQ-16 (; NATO reporting name: CH-SA-16) is a Chinese medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). It is derived f ...

medium-range air defense missiles which is an upgrade from the

HQ-7 The HQ-7 (; NATO reporting name: CH-SA-4) is a short-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) from the People's Republic of China. It was reverse-engineered by the Changfeng Electromechanical Technology Design Institute from the French R-440 Crotale ...

and anti-submarine missiles in a

vertical launching system A vertical launching system (VLS) is an advanced system for holding and firing missiles on mobile naval platforms, such as surface ships and submarines. Each vertical launch system consists of a number of ''cells'', which can hold one or mo ...

(VLS) system. The ship is named after Emperor

Tughril Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il (), better known as Tughril (; also spelled Toghril / Tughrul), was a Turkoman"The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is ...

, who was among the founders of the

Seljuk Empire The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a High Middle Ages, high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian tradition, Turco-Persian, Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qiniq (tribe), Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. ...

. The ship was commissioned on 8 November 2021.

Commissioning

''Tughril'' was formally commissioned into the Pakistan Navy on 24 January 2022, at the

Karachi Naval Dockyard The Pakistan Navy Dockyard, officially known as the PN Dockyard, is a naval base located off the Karachi coast and adjacent to the commercial premises of the KESW Ltd. and the PNS Qasim. It is also the only submarine construction base for the ...

, with Pakistan's president -

Arif Alvi Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi () is a Pakistani politician who served as the 13th President of Pakistan, in office from 2018 to 2024. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to May 2018 and again from August to September 2018. ...

and the chief of the Pakistan Navy - Amjad Khan Niazi, in attendance. The formal commissioning of ''Tughril'' coincided with the induction of ten second-hand WS-61 Sea King naval helicopters into the

Pakistan Naval Air Arm The Pakistan Naval Air Arm (unofficially: Pakistan Naval Aviation) is the naval aviation and military administrative branch of the Pakistan Navy. The air arm is tasked with providing configuration of all naval aviation aircraft and is respo ...

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