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  • Pakistan Launches Agosta submarine

    08/24/2002 5:55:11 PM PDT · by fiftymegaton · 20 replies · 762+ views
    UPI(by way of Washington Times) | August 24, 2002 | Aamir Shah
    August 24, 2002 Pakistan launches Agosta submarine By Aamir Shah UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Pakistan on Saturday launched its first submarine built in the country, an Agosta 90B Class attack submarine, manufactured in its naval facility with French assistance and now heading out to sea for six months of field trials. "Today Pakistan joins the elite club of a very few countries that have the ability to construct submarines," Adm. Abdul Aziz Mirza said in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. Mirza, who is Pakistan's chief of naval staff, also paid tribute to the 11 French...