NEW DELHI: China has helped Pakistan Navy induct its first specialised analysis or spy ship, which apparently has the aptitude to trace launch of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles and undertake different intelligence-gathering missions.
The 87m-long PNS Rizwan is claimed to be comparable however a lot smaller to India’s indigenously-built 175m-long missile vary instrumentation ship, INS Dhruv, that’s full of long-range radars, dome-shaped monitoring antennae, and superior electronics. INS Dhruv was commissioned in 2021.
Only a handful of nations like US, Russia, China, France and India function such specialised vessels. China recurrently deploys analysis and survey vessels in Indian Ocean area (IOR) to observe India’s missile launches in addition to map oceanographic and different knowledge helpful for navigation and submarine operations, amongst different functions.
INS Dhruv, which took a number of years to be constructed at Hindustan Shipyard in Vizag, is manned by personnel from Navy, DRDO and NTRO, as reported by TOI earlier.
The ship can act as an early-warning system on excessive seas to detect and monitor hostile ballistic missiles launched from land or submarines towards Indian mainland targets. It can be utilized to observe LEO satellites being utilized by an adversary for army reconnaissance, spying & communications.