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BNS Meghna
BNS ''Meghna'' is a Meghna-class patrol vessel of the Bangladesh Navy that joined in 1985. Career ''BNS Meghna'' is serving under the command of the Commodore (rank), Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla (COMBAN). On 10 September 2018, a fishing trawler named ''Swadhin-3'' sunk near the Port of Mongla, Mongla port following a collision with a commercial vessel. 12 fishermen were on board the fishing trawler. BNS Turag responded quickly to rescue 9 fishermen alive. Later, BNS Meghna joined the operation along with BNS Nishan to rescue the other three fishermen. Armament The ship is armed with a Bofors 57 mm L/70 naval artillery gun, 57mm 70-cal Bofors DP gun that can fire 200 rounds per minute to carrying 2.4 kg. shell and a Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70, 40mm 70-cal Bofors AA gun firing 300 rounds per minute to with 0.96 kg. shell. Besides that, there are two 7.62mm machine guns as secondary weapons. See also *BNS Jamuna *List of active ships of the Bangladesh Navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
