Three Chinese warships arrived in the port city of Karachi on June 10 for a four-day goodwill and training visit. Our author offers an estimate, focusing on the Type 054A (Jiangkai-II) frigate.

China held a keel-laying ceremony last month at a shipyard in Shanghai for the second of four Type 054A-class frigates on order for the Pakistan Navy. A Chinese shipbuilding company cut steel for ...

Pakistan Navy has contracted construction of Type 054 AP Frigates from China under a contract signed in 2017. The first –in-class Frigate was launched in August 2020, followed by Second Frigate ...

The frigate, named the PNS Tughril is the first hull of four Type 054 frigates being constructed for Pakistan Navy. The ship is a technologically advanced and highly capable platform with enormous ...

The Chinese ships are identified by their hull numbers as Type 052C destroyer Jinan and Type 054A frigate Yiyang. They are ...