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. The warship is serving in Bangladesh Navy since 2014. It is named after the first

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Armament

The ship is armed with two quad-pack

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launchers. The C-802A missiles have range of . It also carries two Type 79A dual-100 mm gun to engage surface targets. For air defence role, the ship carries four Type 76 dual-37 mm AA guns. For anti-submarine operations, the ship has two five tube RBU-1200 anti-submarine rocket launchers. she also carries two depth charge (DC) racks and four DC projectors. There are two

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6-barrel decoy rocket launchers in the ship too.

Service history

Type 053H2 frigate BNS ''Abu Bakr'' was previously known as ''Huangshi'', which served with People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) in the

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. She was commissioned in PLAN in 1986. In 2013 the ship was sold to the

. BNS ''Abu Bakr'' was commissioned into the Bangladesh Navy on 1 March 2014. She is currently based at Chattogram under Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla. From 21 to 25 April 2014, ''Abu Bakr'' took part in the 14th Western Pacific Naval Symposium and International Fleet Review-2014 at Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. During the tour, the ship visited the ports of Klang,

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, China and

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in a goodwill mission. On 12 March 2015, the ship left for Malaysia to take part in Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA)-2015. On her return journey, she visited the port of

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on a goodwill mission. She arrived at Chattogram on 31 March 2015. The ship took part in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training(CARAT), an annual bilateral exercise with

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, in 2015. ''Abu Bakr'' visited the

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, Sri Lanka from 21 to 23 October 2015 on a goodwill visit. In 2017, the ship gone through an upgradation process where its old Chinese ''Type 354'' surface search radar and ''Type 517H-1'' air search radar was replaced with new generation

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made ''Kronos NAVAL'' 3D multifunction C-band AESA radar. This new radar has a range of 250 km. BNS Abu Bakr participated in ''Exercise Bongosagar-2020'', a bilateral exercise with

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, held on 4 to 5 October 2020 in the northern

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region. She also took part in the IN-BN ''Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT)-2020'' exercise along the Bangladesh-India maritime border after the Bongosagar exercise ends.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abu Bakar Ships of the Bangladesh Navy Frigates of the Bangladesh Navy Type 053H2 frigates of the Bangladesh Navy Ships built in China 1985 ships

Armament

Service history

See also

References