Bangladesh Navy

[Michael Corleone]

I am guessing commissioning will happen soon.

yeah after those dornier aircrafts and the frigates arrive... in about 2 weeks time

 

[UKBengali]

suffice to say these aren't shooting down no fighter jets

Range is too short to attack fighter jets that launch missiles or glide bombs.
They would be useful if any fighters come in close to try low-level bombing though.
The FL-3000N system is really designed to protect the ship and any very close by against sea-skimming cruise missiles.

 

[The Ronin]

Female members of Royal Malaysian Navy onboard BNS Sangram (F-113), the guided missile corvette of Bangladesh Navy

 

[Bilal9]

suffice to say these aren't shooting down no fighter jets

Well that is the function of larger frigates and destroyers and having a VLS battery of these HHQ-9's (Slant range of 125 km). What is to be built at Chittagong - get the drift .

Now defense-wise these two corvettes are very well protected with sensors and countermeasures against launched missiles. That is what the FL3000n and gun-CIWS is for.

 

[LKJ86]

The launch of HHQ-9B SAM from Type 052D DDG

Bangladesh navy visits CSIC.

 

[ghost250]

The launch of HHQ-9B SAM from Type 052D DDG
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Bangladesh navy visits CSIC.
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our navy cheif....... for next generation frigate or type 053H3??!!

 

[Bilal9]

our navy cheif....... for next generation frigate or type 053H3??!!

If the chief is visiting then the subject is pretty important.

 

[bd_4_ever]

Sorry to spoil your party boys, but in the meanwhile while BAF is --->

 

[Avisheik]

Sorry to spoil your party boys, but in the meanwhile while BAF is --->

Cant blame the BAF, they suffer from jetlag the most

 

[Arthur]

our navy cheif....... for next generation frigate or type 053H3??!!

He meet up with President Xi and PLAN Chief on the sidelline of PLAN 70'th anniversary. Don't think a pair of old rust bucket was a priority concern for any of these three.

 

[Avicenna]

He meet up with President Xi and PLAN Chief on the sidelline of PLAN 70'th anniversary. Don't think a pair of old rust bucket was a priority concern for any of these three.

Exactly.

 

[UKBengali]

He meet up with President Xi and PLAN Chief on the sidelline of PLAN 70'th anniversary. Don't think a pair of old rust bucket was a priority concern for any of these three.

Hmmm.....

There were reports last year that the next-gen frigates will be based on Chinese hull and will use their SAMs as well. The sensors and electronics would come from EU.
Whatever happens I do not want the sensors and electronics to come from China as BN must have free reign to engage MAF, MN and hit land targets in Myanmar freely.

 

[Michael Corleone]

Hmmm.....

There were reports last year that the next-gen frigates will be based on Chinese hull and will use their SAMs as well. The sensors and electronics would come from EU.
Whatever happens I do not want the sensors and electronics to come from China as BN must have free reign to engage MAF, MN and hit land targets in Myanmar freely.

sensors will be foreign for sure

 

[UKBengali]

sensors will be foreign for sure

Really hope that they are not Chinese.

 

[Bilal9]

sensors will be foreign for sure

Mostly European mfrs. such as Kelvin Hughes, Signaal, BAE Systems Maritime as well as Thales (maybe other smaller outfits too)

Really hope that they are not Chinese.

Well when the Chinese get 'inspired' by a foreign design, they can SOMETIMES produce some pretty good items. Chinese Sensor industry IS highly developed, but yes maturity may be lacking in some products. For price buyers like the Myanmarese Navy, they are not bad.

How many other countries have come up with their own large array naval radars (AESA, PAESA) and close the tech gap in such a short time? Chinese have both good and bad products. It is up to us to choose and evaluate.

My humble thought is that being in our industrial stage we should not criticize Chinese achievements, they don't have to look at foreign sources for sensors, unlike other large countries in some cases.

These days frigate design revolves around sensors (and the war-fighting systems that gets fed by the sensors).

Great example is the F124 Sachsen class in Germany. Although designated as frigates, they are comparable to destroyers in capability and size and were intended to replace the Navy's Lütjens class. They are similar to the Dutch De Zeven Provinciën class, in that both are based on the use of a common primary anti-air warfare system built around the APAR and SMART-L radars as well as the area-defence SM-2 Block IIIA and point-defence Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) surface-to-air missiles.

For this role the ships are equipped with an advanced sensor and weapons suite. The primary sensors for this role are the long range surveillance radar SMART-L and the multi-function radar APAR. The SMART-L and APAR are highly complementary, in the sense that SMART-L is a L band radar providing very long range surveillance while APAR is an X band radar providing precise target tracking, a highly capable horizon search capability, and missile guidance using the Interrupted Continuous Wave Illumination (ICWI) technique, thus allowing guidance of 32 semi-active radar homing missiles in flight simultaneously, including 16 in the terminal guidance phase.[5][6] The ships are also equipped with two STN Atlas 9600-M ARPA navigation radars.

Sachsen class