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BNS Bangabandhu. BNS Bangabandhu ( Bengali: বানৌজা বঙ্গবন্ধু) is a guided-missile frigate of the Bangladesh Navy. She is currently based at Chattogram, serving with the Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla (COMBAN). She is currently the only frigate of the Bangladesh Navy armed with ASW torpedo and gun based CIWS .
The Bangladesh Navy started its journey during the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971. At that time navy was a force equipped with surface ships only. Coming in the new millennium, the Bangladesh Navy started to consider the necessity of being a three-dimensional force equipped with submarines and aircraft. It was the year of 2009 when the first ...
The U.S. Navy introduced the identification system of tail and wing letter codes for its aircraft in July 1945. This system was intended to replace the set of geometrical symbols employed for the similar purpose since January 1945.
Bangladesh Naval Academy is a reputed military academy for naval training in South Asia. It was established in 1976 at the premises of the Mercantile Marine Academy at Juludia, Chittagong, later shifted to BNS Issa Khan in Chittagong to train the cadets of the Bangladesh Navy. The academy shifted to its present location in 1988. [2]
M Anwar Hossain is a senior Bangladesh Navy officer who serving as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Operation) as of December 2023. He previously served as deputy director general of the Bangladesh Coast Guard and commander of Khulna Naval Area. Career. Hossain was commissioned in the Bangladesh Navy on 1 January 1988.
BNS Shaheed Moazzem. Rangamati, Chittagong Division. BNS Shaheed Moazzem is a naval base of the Bangladesh Navy, established after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, and named in honour of shaheed (Martyr) Lieutenant Commander Moazzem Hossain [1] who had sacrificed his life for his motherland in the Bangladesh Liberation War .
2 × 6-tube Type-87 ASW rocket launchers. Aviation facilities. Helicopter deck. BNS Prottoy is a Type 056 stealth surface warfare guided missile corvette of Bangladesh Navy. She was built at Wuchang Shipyard of China. She is the second corvette of the class for the Bangladesh Navy. The ship is serving the Bangladesh Navy since 2016.
The Type 053H3 frigate BNS Umar Farooq was previously known as Lianyungang (522) which served with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) in the East Sea Fleet. The ship was launched in October 1997 and commissioned to the PLAN in January 1998. [citation needed] On 5 August 2019, she was decommissioned to be sold to the Bangladesh Navy. [2]