UMS ''Minye Theinkhathu (71)'' ( Burmese: မင်းရဲသိင်္ခသူ; ) is a ''Sindhughosh'' (

Kilo KILO (94.3 FM, 94.3 KILO) is a radio station broadcasting in Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado. It also streams online. History KLST and KPIK-FM The 94.3 signal signed on the air on August 22, 1962, as KLST, owned by Little London Broa ...

)-class submarine owned by the

Myanmar Navy The Myanmar Navy ( my, တပ်မတော် (ရေ); ) is the naval warfare branch of the armed forces of Myanmar. With 24,000 personnel on duty, the navy operates more than 150 vessels. Prior to 1988, the navy was small, and its role in c ...

. It is the service's first and, , only serving submarine. Before being acquired by Myanmar, it served in the Indian Navy as INS ''Sindhuvir'' (S58).

Background

Beginning in the 1980s and ending in 2000, the Indian Navy acquired ten

Kilo-class submarine The Kilo class, Soviet designation Project 877 ''Paltus'' (russian: Па́лтус, meaning "halibut"), NATO reporting name Kilo, is a class of diesel-electric attack submarines originally designed in the 1970s and built in the Soviet Uni ...

s from the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

and its successor state Russia. Within India, they are known as the ''Sindhughosh'' class.

Myanmar Navy service

Myanmar acquired ''Sindhuvir'' in 2020. The ship was refitted by

Hindustan Shipyard Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) is a shipyard located in Visakhapatnam on the east coast of India. History Founded as the ''Scindia Shipyard'', it was built by industrialist Walchand Hirachand as a part of The Scindia Steam Navigation Company ...

before the handover. The submarine was first seen publicly as a Myanmar Navy ship, as UMS Minye Theinkhathu, on 15 October 2020 as part of a naval fleet exercise (‘Bandoola 2020’). The submarine was formally commissioned along with other six new ships at the 73rd Navy Day ceremony on 24 December 2020. The ceremony was attended by the Indian and Russian ambassadors to Myanmar, which the military intelligence company ''Jane's'' believes could indicate Russian involvement in the submarine's transfer to Myanmar. It appears to be named after Minye Theinkhathu of

Toungoo Taungoo (, ''Tauñngu myoú''; ; also spelled Toungoo) is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west. The main industr ...

(Taungoo), who was the father of King

Bayinnaung , image = File:Bayinnaung.JPG , caption = Statue of Bayinnaung in front of the National Museum of Myanmar , reign = 30 April 1550 – 10 October 1581 , coronation = 11 January 1551 at Toung ...

and served as viceroy of Toungoo from 1540 to 1549.

Gallery

File:UMS Minye Theinkhathu at a naval exercise.jpg, UMS Minye Theinkhathu at the Bandoola naval exercise File:MN-Sub-2.jpg, UMS Minye Theinkhathu at the 73rd Myanmar Navy Day ceremony (24 December 2020) File:UMS Minye Theinkhathu at a ceremony.jpg, UMS Minye Theinkhathu at the commissioning ceremony

References

Sindhughosh-class submarines Attack submarines Ships built in the Soviet Union 1987 ships Submarines of the Myanmar Navy {{submarine-stub