PNS Hashmat

History
South Africa
Name:	SAS Astrant
Owner:	South African Navy
Ordered:	1975
Builder:	Dubigeon-Normandie, Nantes, France
Launched:	14 December 1977
Fate:	Not delivered because of sanctions
Pakistan
Name:	PNS Hashmat
Commissioned:	19 February 1979 [1]
Identification:	S135
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hashmat-class submarine
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) surfaced 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) submerged

PNS Hashmat is the lead ship of her class of submarine for the Pakistan Navy. The Hashmat class is based on the French Navy's Agosta class. Hashmat was originally ordered as SAS Astrant for the South African Navy but was sold to Pakistan—along with planned sister ship Adventurous—when United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 was passed in 1977 preventing the sale to South Africa. As of 16 February 2009, Hashmat was still active with the Pakistan Navy.^[2]

See also

• Pakistan Navy
• List of ships of Pakistan Navy

References

Bibliography

• Chant, Christopher (1987). A Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 158–59. ISBN 0-7102-0720-4. OCLC 14965544. 
• "Hashmat Class (Fr Agosta-70)". GlobalSecurity.org. 27 April 2005. Retrieved 5 September 2009. 

Agosta-class submarine
French Navy	Agosta Bévéziers La Praya Ouessant
Royal Malaysian Navy	Ouessant†
Pakistan Navy	Hashmat class Hashmat (ex-Astrant) Hurmat (ex-Adventurous) Khalid class‡ Khalid Saad Hamza
South African Navy	Adventurous* Astrant* (*neither delivered)
Spanish Navy	Galerna Mistral Siroco Tramontana
† – Used for training of Royal Malaysian Navy submariners ‡ – the Khalid class was built to the revised Agosta 90B design Preceded by: Daphné class Followed by: Redoutable class