On 17 December, the Pakistan Navy (PN) took delivery of its fourth – and, at least currently, last – Yarmouk-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) from Damen Shipyards Group, the PNS Yamama.
The PNS Yamama is also the second of the PN’s Batch-II order, which was made up of a pair of Damen OPV 2600s. The OPV 2600 is larger and more capable than the OPV 1900s that formed the initial pair the PN ordered from Damen in 2017.
Like the three preceding Yarmouk-class OPVs, the PNS Yamama was constructed at Damen’s Galati Shipyard in Romania. The PN inducted the first pair of ships, the PNS Yarmouk and PNS Tabuk, in 2020, while the third OPV, PNS Hunain, was delivered earlier this year in July.
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