Pakistan rattles India with new Chinese-built stealth submarine

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Pakistan has introduced the PNS Hangor, a new stealth attack submarine built in China, signaling its intention to enhance naval capabilities in the Bay of Bengal. The class will include eight submarines, with four built in China and the remainder locally, aiming to bolster Pakistan's shipbuilding capacity.

The last time Pakistan’s navy operated a submarine in the Bay of Bengal, India sank it. That was 1971. Fifty-five years on, Islamabad is signalling its intent to go back. The vessel delivering that message, PNS Hangor, arrived in Karachi on June 11, the first of a class of eight attack submarines – four built in China, with the remainder to be constructed in Pakistan to develop its shipbuilding capacity. PNS Hangor is named after an earlier Daphne-class submarine that sank the Indian frigate INS...