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The Two Chinese Made C13B Corvettes on Their Way to Bangladesh.
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Naval Forces News - Bangladesh |
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Two Chinese Made C13B Corvettes on Their Way to Bangladesh |
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Following
the delivery
ceremony which took place in December 2015 at the China Shipbuilding
& Offshore International Company (CSOC)'s Wuchang Shipyard in Wuhan,
the two new
Bangladesh Navy C13B Corvettes, BNS Shadhinota (F111) and BNS
Prottoy (F112), left China and are on their way to their home
base. As can be seen in these pictures the C13B-class of corvette shares
many similarities with the PLAN's Type
056 Jiangdao class (on which it is based). |
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BNS Shadhinota (F111) corvette of the Bangladesh Navy sailing to its base |
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BNS
Shadhinota (F111) was launched in November 2014 and BNS Prottoy
(F112) was launched in January 2015.
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BNS Prottoy (F112) corvette of the Bangladesh Navy sailing to its base |
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Bangladesh C13B-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 Link to Type 056 Jiangdao class Corvette technical datasheet |