BNS Umar Farooq Frigate
BNS Umar Farooq
BNS Umar Farooq is a Salisbury class frigate, the former HMS Llandaff, currently in service with the Bangladesh Navy.
She was built in Britain, and served with the Royal Navy for 18 years, before being sold to Bangladesh, arriving there on 27 March 1977. She is currently moored at Chittagong, serving with the Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla (COMBAN), where she is used to train midshipman. She is deployed to support operations off the Bangladeshi coast, such as anti-piracy and anti-smuggling operations, as well as search and rescue deployments. About 200 personnel serve aboard Umar Farooq, with most living aboard her.
She is currentry on the posses of replacing by F-22B frigate
| Career (Bangladesh) |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | Salisbury class frigate |
| Name: | BNS Umar Farooq |
| Ordered: | 1976 |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
| Laid down: | 27 August 1953 |
| Launched: | 30 November 1955 |
| Acquired: | 1976 |
| Commissioned: | 10 December 1976 |
| Homeport: | Chittagong |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,170 tons(standard), 2,408 tons (loaded) |
| Length: | 103.5 m |
| Beam: | 12.5 m |
| Draught: | 4.7 m |
| Propulsion: | 8 × ASR1 diesels, 12,400 shp (9.2MW) , 2 x shafts |
| Speed: | 24 kt |
| Range: | 2,300 at 24 kt;7,500 at 16 kt |
| Complement: | 223 (14 officers) |
| Sensors and processing systems: | Radar System (Air/Surface Search): Marconi Type 965 with double AKE 2 array Surface Search/Fire Control System: Plessey Type 993 Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 Weapons Control: Type 275 Sonar Systems: Type 174 (Hull Mounted), Graseby Type 170B (Hull Mounted) |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: | Cutlass 242, Scorpion Jammer; Decoy: 1 x decoy launcher |
| Armament: | Guns: 1 × twin 4.5 in gun Mark 6, 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.5 A/S Mortars: 1 x Squid launcher |
She was built in Britain, and served with the Royal Navy for 18 years, before being sold to Bangladesh, arriving there on 27 March 1977. She is currently moored at Chittagong, serving with the Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla (COMBAN), where she is used to train midshipman. She is deployed to support operations off the Bangladeshi coast, such as anti-piracy and anti-smuggling operations, as well as search and rescue deployments. About 200 personnel serve aboard Umar Farooq, with most living aboard her.
She is currentry on the posses of replacing by F-22B frigate
the most amazing thing is that,it is srill in service
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