page_title: F-22P Zulfiquar-class frigate
section_title: Design and technology
hierarchical_section_title: F-22P Zulfiquar-class frigate / Design and technology
caption_attribution_description: English: A rendering of a 3D model created using Lightwave 3D v5.5 software.
context_page_description: The F22P Zulfiquar-class frigate, also known as F-22P, Zulfiquar class or in English: Sword class, is a class of multi-mission guided missile frigates, currently in service with the Pakistan Navy. The class is based on an updated model of the Chinese Type 053H3 frigate. The frigates were designed and built jointly in Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China and the KS&EW Ltd. in Pakistan.
  The frigates are tasked with the capability of performing multi-mission including providing the air defense, enemy interdiction, extraction, and patrolling the economic exclusive zone.
context_section_description: The F-22P Zulfiquar hull uses many of the radar cross-section reduction features of the Chinese Type 054 frigate to help it evade detection by radar mounted on other ships, aircraft and anti-ship missiles.
  The armory features the Chinese engineered Russian patent, AK-176M–a 76.2 mm calibre– being the main artillery gun with the distinction of that the Chinese variant adopts the stealth turret to reduce radar cross-section. The gun is designed to engage enemy warships, aircraft and anti-ship missiles. In front of the main gun are two 6-cell RDC-32, the anti-submarine rocket launchers.
  The F-22P Zulfiquar is a guided missile frigate (FFG) with the introduction and the installation of the armament comprises eight C-802 "Eagle strike", the Chinese manufactured subsonic surface-to-surface missiles, carried in two launchers with four cells each that are fitted between the foremast and the funnel. These containers are also compatible with the CY series anti-submarine rockets and may be loaded with a combination of anti-ship and anti-submarine weapons. In addition, the warships are installed with the FM-90N "red flag", a Chinese-built surface-to-air missile system, is fitted between the main deck and main gun.
  The launch pad has eight cells each containing one missile and is fitted on a mount that can be elevated and traversed in the direction of the threat. The FM-90N can engage several targets, including supersonic and subsonic sea-skimming missiles, using different guidance modes simultaneously. The system is also designed to engage small targets such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
  A single Type 730B, a close-in weapon system (CIWS), is mounted on the aircraft hangar. Comprising two seven-barrel Gatling guns of 30 mm calibre, the F-22P is believed to be the first ship armed with the Type 730B. which uses off-mount sensors such as the Type 347G radar and the OFC-3 electro-optic director.
  The guns are mounted side-by-side on the aircraft hangar, with the off-mount sensors in between. The CIWS can be upgraded with the FL-3000N fire-and-forget missile system by installing up to two single-round FL-3000N launchers on each existing CIWS gun mount.
  The Harbin Z-9EC anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter is equipped with a surface-search radar, low frequency dipping sonar, radar warning receiver, doppler navigation system and armed with torpedoes. The helicopter can be armed with one torpedo on the starboard side.
  A small antenna on the roof may provide a data-link, allowing the Z-9 to act as a relay for targeting data between the ship and long range anti-ship missiles such as the C-802.
caption: A graphical design of the F-22P on the LightWave 3D CAD.
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