PNS Tippu Sultan (DDG-185), a Tariq-class destroyer, served in the Pakistan Navy after it was acquired in 1994.

[4] She was designed and constructed by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, Scotland, she was laid down on 30 October 1974, and was launched on 19 July 1978.

[3] She eventually gained commissioned on 19 July 1978 in the Surface Fleet of the Royal Navy as HMS Avenger.

: 104 [5] On 3 October 1994, she was purchased by Pakistan after the successful negotiation with the United Kingdom, along with PNS Shah Jahan.

[9] On 27 April 2020, the Pakistan military's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) released a military footage showing the Navy conducting a firing exercise that sunk the Tippu Sultan in the Indian Ocean through cruise missile firing launched from a ship and a rotary aircraft.