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Pakistan receives Chinese-built stealth submarine, challenging India

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Pakistan has received its first new Chinese-built stealth submarine, the PNS Hangor, signaling a renewed naval challenge to India. This attack submarine is the first of eight planned, with four built in China and the rest to be constructed in Pakistan to boost local shipbuilding capabilities. The PNS Hangor is named after a previous submarine that sank an Indian frigate in 1971, and its arrival is seen as a significant development that could alter the maritime balance in the Arabian Sea. AI

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Maria Siow ·

    Pakistan rattles India with new Chinese-built stealth submarine

    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 …

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