Bangladesh Ulsan Frigate?
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contedicavour
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Definitively a mistery so far... even Jane's 2006/07 edition doesn't clarify the ship's status.
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The Bangladesh Navy is mostly limited to coastal patrolling, but it paid to have an ULSAN class frigate built in South Korea. A new frigate, the Bangabandhu, was ceremonially commissioned into the Navy of Bangladesh in June 2001. Built by Daewoo of South Korea, the Bangabandhu is derived from an existing fleet of Ulsan class ships that are in service with the Korean Navy. The frigate was ordered three years earlier and completed on schedule at a cost of $100 mn. The Bangabandhu displaces 2,370 tons and is fitted with a Thales command and control suite comprising a TACTICOS combat system, DA-08 surveillance radar, a Variant surface surveillance radar, a Mirador electro-optical tracking and fire control system and a LIROD Mk2 fire control radar. In 1994-95, the then government, in principal, decided to purchase a naval frigate for Bangladesh Navy, but it did not mature due to indecision. In the following year (1995-96), a decision was taken. According to schedule, the frigate was to be received on June 18, 2001. 38 defects in the frigate, including those in installation of SONAR Dome and Cylindical Inspector Array, making it unable to operate as a warship. All these errors could be eliminated at the DAEWOO shipyard.
Source: www globalsecurity org /military/world/rok/ffk-951.htm
See also: www bdmilitary com
/main/military/sea/navy/ships/surface/navy_surface_dw2000.htm
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Source: www globalsecurity org /military/world/rok/ffk-951.htm
See also: www bdmilitary com
/main/military/sea/navy/ships/surface/navy_surface_dw2000.htm
/gallery/v/sea/navy/surface/dw2000_09.jpg.html
contedicavour
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That ship also carried Teseo Mk2 missiles with 180 km range, not bad for the Bangladeshi Navy.
What is curious is that nobody knows if the ship is back in Bangladesh or not. Repairing a sonar shouldn't take that long
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What is curious is that nobody knows if the ship is back in Bangladesh or not. Repairing a sonar shouldn't take that long
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She may (MAY) have been decomissioned....
http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/07/22/d4072201088.htm
http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/dec/02/02122005pl.htm
World Navies in Review
By A. D. Baker III
To India's east, the Bangladesh Navy handed the nascent South Korean export warship market an embarrassing setback when it decommissioned the 2,300-ton, Saudi Arabian-financed, Daewoo-built frigate Bangabandhu on 14 February 2002, less than a year after its commissioning. The ship was said to be suffering from nu­merous engineering plant and weapon sys­tem defects, and negotiations continued throughout 2002 over how—or whether— the ship's problems were to be rectified. An announcement in August 2002 by the Bangladeshi prime minister that her coun­try would be buying two retiring Italian Navy Lupo-class frigates was apparently more than a bit premature because it now appears those ships will be going to Peru (see pp. 53, 57). A more successful ac­quisition of retiring European warships was the purchase of all five remaining British Royal Navy Island-class offshore patrol ships. The 1,280-ton Shetland became the Bangladeshi Karatoa on 29 July 2002, fol­lowed by the Kapatkhaya (ex-Alderney) on 31 October; sister ship Anglesey is to be handed over on decommissioning this July; and the Guernsey and Lindisfame are to follow at the end of the year, thereby providing Bangladesh with a ready-made and still useful long-endurance offshore patrol force.
http://airbase.ru/books/users/Tico/World_Navies_in_Review.doc
(takes a while to download)
However, http://www.comw.org/cmp/fulltext/0606cordesman.pdf (p. 113)lists it as in active service in 2006
Which may be the case after this (from google):
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1 Bangabandhu† in refit (ROK mod Ulsan) with 2 B515 ... For Krivak 3 frigate. First. export. RF. FGA. MiG-29K (Fulcrum D) ...
taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/N8R2835048515381.pdf - Gelijkwaardige pagina's[/SIZE]
SO ... gut feeling: back in service.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/07/22/d4072201088.htm
http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/dec/02/02122005pl.htm
World Navies in Review
By A. D. Baker III
To India's east, the Bangladesh Navy handed the nascent South Korean export warship market an embarrassing setback when it decommissioned the 2,300-ton, Saudi Arabian-financed, Daewoo-built frigate Bangabandhu on 14 February 2002, less than a year after its commissioning. The ship was said to be suffering from nu­merous engineering plant and weapon sys­tem defects, and negotiations continued throughout 2002 over how—or whether— the ship's problems were to be rectified. An announcement in August 2002 by the Bangladeshi prime minister that her coun­try would be buying two retiring Italian Navy Lupo-class frigates was apparently more than a bit premature because it now appears those ships will be going to Peru (see pp. 53, 57). A more successful ac­quisition of retiring European warships was the purchase of all five remaining British Royal Navy Island-class offshore patrol ships. The 1,280-ton Shetland became the Bangladeshi Karatoa on 29 July 2002, fol­lowed by the Kapatkhaya (ex-Alderney) on 31 October; sister ship Anglesey is to be handed over on decommissioning this July; and the Guernsey and Lindisfame are to follow at the end of the year, thereby providing Bangladesh with a ready-made and still useful long-endurance offshore patrol force.
http://airbase.ru/books/users/Tico/World_Navies_in_Review.doc
(takes a while to download)
However, http://www.comw.org/cmp/fulltext/0606cordesman.pdf (p. 113)lists it as in active service in 2006
Which may be the case after this (from google):
[SIZE=-2][PDF][/SIZE]
MB05 05 South Asia.indd
[SIZE=-1]Bestandsformaat: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
1 Bangabandhu† in refit (ROK mod Ulsan) with 2 B515 ... For Krivak 3 frigate. First. export. RF. FGA. MiG-29K (Fulcrum D) ...
taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/N8R2835048515381.pdf - Gelijkwaardige pagina's[/SIZE]
SO ... gut feeling: back in service.
contedicavour
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Wow thanks that's what I call a thorough and impressive research on the subject 
I wonder why Bangladesh doesn't just join the list of countries ordering off the shelf Chinese Jangwei II light frigates. They are relatively cheap and could be bought in sufficient numbers. Pakistan today and potentially Thailand and Myanmar could take more, so China might even be tempted to build a regional maintenance center in an existing shipyard.
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I wonder why Bangladesh doesn't just join the list of countries ordering off the shelf Chinese Jangwei II light frigates. They are relatively cheap and could be bought in sufficient numbers. Pakistan today and potentially Thailand and Myanmar could take more, so China might even be tempted to build a regional maintenance center in an existing shipyard.
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Its my opinion that Bangladesh isn't in the position to declare war on any of its neighbors. Therefore, its in its best interests to have an OPV navy, to patrol and police its waters. When a nation absorbs five used patrol ships instead of buying new OPVs, there is a revelation.
Its not as if new OPVs are expensive. Ireland and New Zealand are able to buy brand new ones for less than $40-50 million each.
Its not as if new OPVs are expensive. Ireland and New Zealand are able to buy brand new ones for less than $40-50 million each.
contedicavour
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With some oil and gas offshore that could be exploited, having something more powerful than an OPV might be useful. Hence my idea of Chinese light frigates with SSMs, SAMs and a helo pad. A Jangwei II should cost not more than 150 million USD each, equipment included. Buy 4 and pay them over 10 years in a government to government deal and that's 60 million USD per year. It should be feasible by their MOD despite limited resources.
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I saw a pic of this frigate at the Bangladeshi navy website. Very capable combatant! I thought maybe just adding $ 10-20 milllion, would put an Albatross missile system in the B position and Tetral or Simbad above the heli hangar. probably also do away with the 30mm instead add 20mm cannons on both sides of the ship for assymetreic warfare.
contedicavour
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Good idea, a bit like the Niteroi update in the Brazilian Navy, which installed Aspide 2000 (range approx 20km, speed Mach 3.5). I confirm the costs you wrote are correct.
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