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China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation Launched Corvette for Bangladesh and OPV for Nigeria.
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Naval Industry News - China |
China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation Launched Corvette for Bangladesh
and OPV for Nigeria |
A new corvette ordered by the Bangladesh Navy was launched on November
30th at the China Shipbuilding & Offshore International Company
(CSOC)'s Wuchang Shipyard in Wuhan, China. CSOC is part of the part
of the State Shipbuilding Corporation, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation
(CSIC). Bangladesh's first corvette (based on the Chinese Navy Type
056 Corvette) was launched in November
2014 while the first OPV was delivered to Nigeria on November
27th. |
 Bangladesh Navy second corvette ( Shadhinota class based on Type 056 Jiangdao class) on the right and Nigeria Navy second OPV on the left, both in the water at the Wuchang Shipyard in Wuhan, China in January 2015. |
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Bangladesh Shadhinota
class corvette retains most of the sensor and weapon
systems found on board Chinese Navy Type 056 corvettes:
» 4x C-803 (export version of YJ-83) Anti-ship missiles (2 launchers with 2 missiles each) » 1x FL-3000N (export version of AJK-10 / HQ-10) Surface to air missile launcher (8x missiles) » 1x H/PJ-26 76mm main gun (similar to Russian AK-176) » 2x H/PJ-17 30mm dual mode (auto/manual) remote controlled naval turret The Bangladesh Navy corvette however will be fitted with one Type 730 CIWS and two Type 3200 ASW rocket launchers will replace the two triple torpedo launchers Nigeria's P18N OPVs are fitted with a H/PJ26 76mm main gun mount and two H/PJ14 30mm gun mounts. The class may accomodate a Z- 9 helicopter thanks to its helipad. Only rotary UAVs may fit inside the hangar space however. |
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