BNS Dhaleshwari
BNS Dhaleshwari during 2018 Milan exercise
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History | |
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Bangladesh | |
Name | BNS Dhaleshwari |
Builder | Hall, Russell & Company |
Acquired | December 2010 |
Commissioned | 5 March 2011 |
Homeport | Mongla |
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Status | In active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Castle-class corvette |
Displacement | 1,430 tons |
Length | 81 m (265.7 ft) |
Beam | 11.5 m (37.7 ft) |
Draught | 3.6 m (11.8 ft) |
Propulsion | 2 × Ruston 12RKC 5,640 bhp (4,210 kW) diesels, 2 shafts |
Speed |
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Range | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
Complement | 45 + accommodation for 25 SWADS |
Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aviation facilities | Flight deck |
BNS Dhaleshwari is a Castle-class guided missile corvette of the Bangladesh Navy. The ship has served with the Bangladesh Navy since 2011.
Description
The ship carries four C-704 automated anti-ship missiles. Besides these it also has one AK-176 main gun, and two Oerlikon 20 mm auto cannons. It has a flight deck which can accommodate helicopters up to Westland Sea King size.
History
The ship was
Career
On 14 May 2010, the ship began a major refit and upgrade to suit the Bangladesh Navy's requirements, which continued until December 2010. On 5 March 2011, the ship was commissioned in the Bangladesh Navy as BNS Dhaleshwari.
BNS Dhaleshwari went to Malaysia to join the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition 2011 (LIMA-2011) in November 2011.[3]
In 2013, the ship fired four C-704 anti-ship missiles in a domestic naval exercise with all four of them hitting their target successfully.[4]
She left Bangladesh on 8 May to take part in the International Maritime Defence Exhibition (IMDEX) Asia-2015 held at Singapore from 19 to 21 May 2015.[5] The ship took part in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training(CARAT), an annual bilateral exercise with the United States Navy, in 2015.[6]
BNS Dhaleshwari took part in multinational maritime exercise, 10th Exercise Milan held from 6 March to 13 March 2018 at Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. The ship left its homeport Chittagong for Port Blair on 3 March 2018.[7][8]
On 24 January 2019, BNS Dhaleshwari left Mongla for United Arab Emirates to take part in 14th International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX)-2019 and 5th Navy Defense Exhibition (NAVDEX)-2019 to be held in February 2019.[9][10] She came back home on 12 March 2019.[11]
See also
- List of active ships of the Bangladesh Navy
- BNS Bijoy
References
- ^ "Navy to be made 3D: PM". bdnews24.com. 5 March 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ "Bangladesh Naval Ship at Colombo". Daily News. Colombo. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ "BNS Dhaleshwari to join maritime exhibition in Malaysia". Daily Sun. 28 November 2011. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014.
- ^ "Former Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis Transferred to Growing Bangladesh Navy". defensemedianetwork.com. 4 June 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ "BNS Dhaleshwari off to Singapore". Daily Sun. 30 November 2015. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ "US-Bangla jt exercise begins today". The Independent. Dhaka. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ^ "Navy ship joins exercise in Andaman sea tomorrow". The Independent. 5 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Warship BNS Dhaleshwari leaves for India". The Daily Sun. 3 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Naval ship BNS Dhaleswari leaves for UAE". Daily Sun. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ^ ইন্টারন্যাশনাল ডিফেন্স এক্সিবিশনে অংশ নিতে যুদ্ধজাহাজ ধলেশ্বরীর মোংলা ত্যাগ. Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). 24 January 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ সংযুক্ত আরব আমিরাতে অনুষ্ঠিত INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE EXHIBITION (IDEX-2019) এ অংশগ্রহণ শেষে দেশে ফিরেছে নৌবাহিনী যুদ্ধজাহাজ ধলেশ্বরী. ISPR. 12 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.