.JPG "With the commissioning of Alamgir on Aug 31, 2010, Pakistan becomes ninth navy to operate Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates, joining Bahrain, Egypt, Poland, Turkey, Australia, Spain, Taiwan and the U.S. Navy.")
When a U.S. Navy ship leaves the fleet upon decommissioning, it often finds a new career with allied navies. The ex-USS McInerney (FFG 8)—the second ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class to be commissioned and more than 30 years old—is now the PNS Alamgir in the Pakistani Navy.
VSE Corporation is the prime contractor, with the work performed at BAE Systems Southeast Division (formerly Atlantic Marine Florida) in Jacksonville, Florida. “She’ll get a substantial overhaul to her systems. She has a considerable amount of future service life ahead of her,” says Bob Gronenberg, the deputy program manager for ship transfers for Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in Washington, DC, the executing agency of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) ship transfers.
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