BNS ''Umar Farooq'' () is a

Type 053H3 frigate The Type 053H3 (NATO reporting name: Jiang Wei, Jiangwei II) is a ship class, class of Chinese frigates that entered service with the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force in the 1990s and 2000s. The class comprised ten vessels, all of whic ...

of the

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. She has served in the Bangladesh Navy since 2020. The ship is named after the second

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Omar.

History

The

BNS ''Umar Farooq'' was previously known as ''Lianyungang'' (522) which served with the

People's Liberation Army Navy The People's Liberation Army Navy, also known as the People's Navy, PLA Navy or simply Chinese Navy, is the naval warfare military branch, branch of the People's Liberation Army, the national military of the People's Republic of China. It i ...

(PLAN) in the

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. The ship was launched in October 1997 and commissioned to the PLAN in January 1998. On 5 August 2019, she was decommissioned to be sold to the

. The handover took place on 18 December 2019. The ship started the journey to her new home, Bangladesh, on 23 December 2019, reaching the

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on 9 January 2020. The Bangladesh Navy commissioned her at

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on 5 November 2020. BNS Umar Farooq participated in Exercise Milan-2022, a multilateral exercise hosted by

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, held from 25 February to 4 March 2022 at

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. She left home to take part in the exercise on 22 February 2022. The ship returned to Chattogram on 6 March 2022.

Armament

The ship is armed with two quad-pack C-802A

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launchers. The C-802A missiles have range of . She also carries one PJ33A dual 100 mm gun to engage surface targets. For anti-aircraft role, the ship carries an eight cell FM-90

surface-to-air missile A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-ai ...

launcher system. Besides, four Type 76A dual 37 mm AA guns are also there. For anti-submarine operations, the ship has two 6-tube Type 3200 ASW rocket launchers and two

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(DC) racks and four DC projectors. Type 946/PJ-46 15-barrel decoy rocket launchers are also in the ship for anti-ship missile defence.

References

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History

Armament

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