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
AdvertisementPakistanThis Week in AsiaPoliticsPakistan rattles India with new Chinese-built stealth submarineHalf a century after a bruising naval defeat, Pakistan is signalling it can again challenge India on its eastern flank4-MIN READ4-MINMaria SiowPublished: 12:00pm, 28 Jun 2026The 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 attack submarines – four built in China, with the remainder to be constructed in Pakistan to develop its shipbuilding capacity.PNS Hangor is named after an earlier Daphne-class submarine that sank the Indian frigate INS Khukri in the Arabian Sea in December 1971, a rare moment of Pakistani naval success in an otherwise one-sided conflict.Commodore Omer Farooq, who acted as escort commander for the new vessel’s high-profile transit voyage from China, declared it a “game changer” capable of operating not just in Pakistan’s home waters, but eastwards, deep into what India considers its own maritime backyard.
Unsurprisingly, the announcement has raised more than just eyebrows in New Delhi.Pakistan has not maintained a meaningful naval presence east of India since its forces were routed there more than half a century ago.AdvertisementSelect VoiceSelect Speed0.
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