BNS ''Ali Haider'' is a Type 053H2 guided-missile frigate of

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

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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.

Career

The Type 053H2 frigate BNS ''Ali Haider'' was previously known as ''Wuhu'' which served with People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) in

East Sea Fleet The Eastern Theater Command Navy (), or East Sea Fleet (ESF; ), is one of the three fleets of the People's Liberation Army Navy, operating in the East China Sea under the Eastern Theater Command. It was the first naval force formed by the Peop ...

. It was commissioned in PLAN in 1987. In 2013 the ship was sold to

. She was commissioned on 1 March 2014 as BNS ''Ali Haider'' (F-17). BNS ''Ali Haider'' left for

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to participate in the UN mission United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on 12 May 2014. She replaced the ship there from 14 June 2014. After completion of the UNIFIL deployment period, the ship visited the

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in Sri Lanka from 7 February to 9 February 2018 on her way back home. ''Ali Haider'' took part in Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT-2019) exercise with the

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along the Bangladesh-India maritime border from 10 to 12 October 2019. The ship reached

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of India as a part of exercise on 12 October 2019. She came back home on 18 October 2019.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ali Haider Ships of the Bangladesh Navy Frigates of the Bangladesh Navy Type 053H2 frigates of the Bangladesh Navy Ships built in China 1986 ships

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