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

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operations was smaller than those of the

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and the

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. The navy has since been expanded to take on a more active role in defense of Myanmar's territorial waters.

History

Pre-independence

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The naval arm of the Royal Armed Forces consisted mainly of shallow draft river boats. Its primary missions were to control the

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, and to protect the ships carrying the army to the front. The major war boats carried up to 30 musketeers and were armed with 6- or 12-pounder cannon.Lieberman, pp. 164–167 By the mid-18th century, the navy had acquired a few seafaring ships, manned by European and foreign sailors, that were used to transport the troops in Siamese and Arakanese campaigns. The Arakanese and the Mon, from maritime regions, maintained more seaworthy flotillas than the inland riverborne "navy" of the Royal Burmese Army.

Founding and the Second World War

Burma separated from India in 1937 and thereafter became responsible for her own local naval defence. It was decided that a naval volunteer reserve force should be formed to implement this responsibility and so provide a local force for the naval administration and defence of the ports and coast of Burma in time of war. On the recommendation of Vice Admiral Sir

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, then Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Sidebottom Lyle from

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was sent to Burma and arrived in Rangoon in June 1939, commissioned to form the volunteer reserve force and to be appointed Naval Office-in-Charge, Rangoon, on the outbreak of war. On 6 September 1940, Burma Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve was officially formed under the Burma Act XV, 1940. The Burma R.N.V.R was placed under the operational orders of Vice Admiral Sir

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, commanding the

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, but retains its own identity and its own administration under the Government of Burma. Burma R.N.V.R, although very small, played an active part in Allied operations against the Japanese during the

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. By 1 December 1945, the

has been withdrawn and the Burma R.N.V.R assumed all naval responsibilities on the coast and waters of Burma.

Burmese independence

In December 1947, the Union of Burma Navy was formed with 700 men mostly from Burma R.N.V.R. The fleet initially consisted of a small but diverse collection of ships transferred from the

under the arrangements made for Burma's independence in January 1948. It included the , an ex-Royal Navy , and four

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(Medium). British Defense Ministry sold with the original 25-pounder guns on naval mountings and Oerlikon 20mm cannons which were reinstalled later.

1950s

In 1950 and 1951, the

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provided 10 coast guard cutters (CGC) under the

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(MDAP). The Myanmar Navy played an important part in the government's fight against the ethnic and ideological insurgent groups which threatened the Union Government in its early days. The Myanmar Navy performed both defensive and offensive roles, protecting convoys, carrying supplies, ferrying troops and giving much-needed fire support. It was instrumental in relieving the port city of Moulmein, which was captured by Karen insurgents in 1948, and the

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town of Bassein. Although one armed patrol boat defected to the Karen insurgents, throughout the turbulent years of post independence in Myanmar, the navy was largely unopposed and maintained control over Myanmar's crucial inland waterways. In 1956 and 1957, the Burmese government acquired five Saunders-Roe convertible motor torpedo/motor gunboats, followed by an in 1958 from the United Kingdom. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the United States sold the Burmese Navy six PGM type coastal patrol craft and seven CGC-type patrol boats. In 1958, Myanmar's Navy took delivery of 10 ''Y-301''-class river gunboats from

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, followed by 25 smaller ''Michao''-class patrol craft.

1960s

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Efforts were made to produce locally made naval vessels with assistance from Yugoslavia. In 1960, the Myanmar Navy commissioned two

Nawarat-class corvette The ''Nawarat''-class corvette (also N-class corvette) is a class of corvettes which was operated by the Myanmar Navy. The lead ship of the class is UMS ''Nawarat'' (501) and it was commissioned in October 1960. The second ship, UMS ''Nagakyay' ...

s. Their armaments include 25-pounder field gun and 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Myanmar shipyards also built a number of smaller patrol craft and a number of landing craft. Landing craft and auxiliary ships are usually armed with Oerlikon 20 mm cannons, 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns. In the mid-1960s, the Myanmar Navy took delivery of ex-US Navy PCE-827 class

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and a , both of which were commissioned in the mid-1940s.

1970s

Although it expanded rapidly during the 1950s and 1960s, the navy was unable to keep pace with loss or deterioration of older vessels in the 1970s. In 1978, the United States provided the Myanmar Navy with six small river patrol craft. A naval replacement program was initiated by BSPP Government in 1979.

1980s

In 1980, the navy acquired six ''Carpentaria''-class inshore patrol boats from Australia followed by three 128-ton ''Swift''-type coastal patrol boats from Singapore and three 385-ton ''Ospery''-class offshore patrol vessels built in Denmark. The Osprey and ''Swift''-class boats have a range of , respectively, and were armed with

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s and 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns. In the early 1980s, Burmese naval shipyards built three 128-ton PGM type patrol boats based upon US ''PGM''-class patrol boats. Each boat was armed with two 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns and two 12.7 mm heavy machine guns.

1990s

The Myanmar Navy purchased six missile escort boats and ten submarine chasers from China. Since 1998, the navy has built two ''Anawrahta''-class corvettes (771 and 772) and four

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(551-554).

2000s

2008 Naval Clash with Bangladesh

In 2008 a naval encounter took place between the

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and the Myanmar Navy. The confrontation was a direct result of the Myanmar Navy allowing companies to drill for natural gas and oil in a disputed area of the

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. The confrontation resulted in Bangladesh's favour

May 2008 Cyclone Nargis

As many as 25 Burmese naval ships may have been sunk in the storm caused by

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in May 2008, while an unknown number of naval personnel and their family members were killed or are listed as missing. The Network for Democracy and Development in Thailand reported that 30 officers and 250 Burmese naval personnel were declared missing, while 25 vessels were destroyed by the cyclone in three naval regional command centres: Panmawaddy Regional Command on Hainggyi Island; Irrawaddy Regional Command; and Danyawaddy Regional Command in Sittwe in Arakan State.

2010s

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As part of international engagement of the US with the Myanmar's armed forces, the visited Myanmar in early 2013. In 2014, the Myanmar Navy began its annual 'Sea Shield' combined fleet exercise in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The annual manoeuvres usually involved live-fire exercises by several of the Myanmar Navy's strategic vessels. The navy participated in the Indian and Myanmar Navy Exercise 2018, held in the Bay of Bengal. On the Burmese side, vessels included the ''Kyan Sittha''-class frigate UMS ''Sin Phyu Shin (F-14)'' and offshore patrol vessel UMS ''Inle'' and on the Indian side, vessels included anti-submarine warfare corvette INS ''Kamorta'', Shivalik (Project 17)-class frigate INS ''Sahyadri'', and a Type 877EKM ''Kilo''-class submarine, along with one helicopter and two advanced aircraft. In September 2019, Myanmar Navy's ''UMS Kyan Sittha'' participated in the first US-Asean Maritime Exercise (AUMX) to improve

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and maritime cooperation in the region. The navy has maintained relationships with regional navies. It has hosted navies from the region such as the

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, the PLA Navy and the

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. Likewise, the navy's ships have visited countries in the region including

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and

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Commanders-in-Chief since independence

Commanders of Naval Region Command

Organisation

Administrative and support units

* Naval headquarters, Ministry of Defence (

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) * Naval Shipyard (Yangon) * Strategic Naval Command (headquarters in Naypyidaw) * Central Naval Command (Seikkyi) * Naval Training Command (Seikkyi) * Central Naval Hydrographic Depot (Yangon) * Central Naval Diving and Salvage Depot (Yangon) * Central Naval Engineering Depot (Botataung, Yangon) * Central Naval Logistic Depot (Yangon) * Central Naval Communications Depot (Yangon) * Central Naval Armaments Deport (Seikkyi)

Naval regional commands and bases

* Irrawaddy Regional Command (headquarters in Yangon) ** Thanhklyet Soon Naval Base ** Thanlyin Naval Base ** Thanlyin Naval Base **

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Naval Base **

Coco Island The Coco Islands ( my, ကိုကိုးကျွန်း) are a small group of islands in the northeastern Bay of Bengal. They are part of the Yangon Region of Myanmar. The islands are located south of the city of Yangon. Coco Island ...

Base (including Naval Radar Unit) * Danyawaddy Regional Command (headquarters in

Sittwe Sittwe (; ; formerly Akyab) is the capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma). Sittwe, pronounced ''sait-tway'' in the Rakhine language, is located on an estuarial island created at the confluence of the Kaladan, Mayu, and Lay Mro rivers empt ...

) **

Kyaukpyu Kyaukpyu ( my, ကျောက်ဖြူမြို့ ; also spelt Kyaukphyu) is a major town in Rakhine State, in western Myanmar. It is located on the north western corner of Yanbye Island on Combermere Bay, and is 250 miles (400 ...

Naval Base **

Thandwe Thandwe ("Thandway" in Arakanese; ; formerly Sandoway) is a town and major seaport in Rakhine State, the westernmost part of Myanmar. Thandwe is very ancient, and is said to have been at one time the capital of Rakhine State, then called Araka ...

(Sandoway) Naval Base ** No.(71) Submarine Base (Ownchein Island) which was established in 2007. It is near Kyaukphyu SEZ. * Panmawaddy Regional Command (headquarters on Haigyi Island) * Mawyawaddy Regional Command (headquarters in

Mawlamyine Mawlamyine (also spelled Mawlamyaing; , ; th, เมาะลำเลิง ; mnw, မတ်မလီု, ), formerly Moulmein, is the fourth-largest city in Myanmar (Burma), ''World Gazetteer'' south east of Yangon and south of Thaton, at t ...

) * Tanintharyi Regional Command (headquarters in Myeik) **

Zadetkyi Zadetkyi Island or Zadetkyi Kyun, also known as Saint Matthew's Island, is an island at the southern end of the Mergui Archipelago, Burma. Its northern side forms the southern shore of Hastings Harbor, where there is a base of the Myanmar Navy. G ...

Island Naval Base ** Mali (Tavoy) Naval Base ** Palai Island Naval Base ** Kadan Naval Base ** Sakanthit Naval Base ** Lambi Naval Base ** Pearl Island Naval Base ** Zadetkale Naval Base (Radar Unit)

Naval infantry

The Myanmar Navy formed a

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battalion of 800 men in 1964, and a second battalion in 1967. They battalions traditionally are deployed mainly in the Arakan, Tenasserim, and Irrawaddy delta coastal regions primarily to assist in the army's counter-insurgency operations (COIN).

Navy SEALs

The Myanmar Navy Sea, Air and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Myanmar Navy SEALs () were probably formed in the early 2010s. The Myanmar Navy SEALs are particularly trained for special operation missions such as Hostage rescue,

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and Counter narcotic operations. The selection process and training curriculum is claimed be similar to

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Naval base air defence force

Previously, Myanmar Naval air defence forces used Bofors 40mm & ZPU-2 AAA for naval bases.

Rank structure

Commissioned officer ranks

The rank insignia of

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Other ranks

The rank insignia of

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s and enlisted personnel.

Equipment

Modernisation

The Myanmar Navy has undertaken a modernisation program since the early 2000s. It has added larger and more advanced ships, mostly by constructing them locally with foreign supplied equipment.

Frigates

The Myanmar Navy started its modernization program in 2001 in an attempt to replace older ships and equipment. In 2012, the navy took delivery of two ''Type 053H1''-class frigates from

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. These two ships were upgraded extensively. Upgrades included the replacing of HY 2 anti-ship missiles by

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missiles and installing new sensors. The first indigenous frigate, the ''Aung Zeya'' entered service in 2011 and took part in a joint exercise with

ships off

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in early 2013. A second ship, ''Kyan Sittha'' entered service in 2012 and is the navy's first stealth frigate. The navy plans to build six indigenous frigates; combining

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n, Chinese, and Western weapons systems. These ships are equipped with Kh-35E anti-ship missiles,

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Super Rapid Cannons,

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6-barrel 30mm

close-in weapon system A close-in weapon system (CIWS ) is a point-defense weapon system for detecting and destroying short-range incoming missiles and enemy aircraft which have penetrated the outer defenses, typically mounted on a naval ship. Nearly all classes of l ...

(CIWS) and Chinese ASW rockets and

torpedo A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, ...

es.

Radars Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (''ranging''), angle, and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, w ...

and electronic systems are mainly from

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of India. Myanmar acquired

surface-to-air missile A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-aircraft syst ...

s and

anti-ship missile An anti-ship missile (AShM) is a guided missile that is designed for use against ships and large boats. Most anti-ship missiles are of the sea skimming variety, and many use a combination of inertial guidance and active radar homing. A goo ...

s from China for its newly built frigates and OPVs. Myanmar Navy Shipyard built with Chinese assistance in the late 1990s is one of the most modern shipyards in the region. Many Burmese naval engineers underwent shipbuilding training in China and Russia.

Submarines

In 2020, the navy acquired its first submarine, a Soviet era ''Sindhughosh''/

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, from India. The former INS ''Sindhuvir'' (S58) was refitted by

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before the handover. Now renamed UMS ''Minye Theinkhathu'', the submarine is to be used for training. It was first seen publicly on 15 October 2020 as part of a naval fleet exercise (‘Bandoola 2020’). The Indian Navy is going to assist in training Myanmar to operate the submarine effectively.

Others

Between 2015 and 2017, the Myanmar Navy procured two Super Dvora Mk III patrol boats from

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. Next, under a US$37.9 million deal signed in March 2017, the Myanmar Navy received the advanced

anti-submarine An anti-submarine weapon (ASW) is any one of a number of devices that are intended to act against a submarine and its crew, to destroy (sink) the vessel or reduce its capability as a weapon of war. In its simplest sense, an anti-submarine weapo ...

torpedo Shyena units from India. Moreover, the Myanmar Navy acquired a new

landing platform dock An amphibious transport dock, also called a landing platform dock (LPD), is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. Several navies currently oper ...

(LPD) from

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in 2019.

Gallery

File:UMS Minye Theinkhathu at the 73rd anniversary of Myanmar Navy Day ceremony.jpg,

UMS Minye Theinkhathu UMS ''Minye Theinkhathu (71)'' ( Burmese: မင်းရဲသိင်္ခသူ; ) is a ''Sindhughosh'' (Kilo)-class submarine owned by the Myanmar Navy. It is the service's first and, , only serving submarine. Before being acquired by Mya ...

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References

External links

* The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships By Eric Wertheim
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