F-22P and 053 series

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Dizasta1 said:

So this essentially means that Pakistan Navy will have a total of (8) F-22P frigates in its fleet, right?

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asif iqbal said:

And lastly this months Warship magazine May 2013 issue page 68 has confirmed 4 additional F23P have been ordered from China

In my opinion Pakistan should have replaced all 6 Type 21 FFG with American Oliver Hazard Perry Class FFG, whereas we got only one, PNS Alamgir ex USS McInerney

Turkey has already been selected for the GENESIS upgrade for the single unit, it would have been great if we could in conjunction with Turkey upgrade all 6 OHP to replace all the old Type 21 FFG

Then we have 4 F22P and the follow on 4 F23P, but I think we should have ordered 6 of each giving

6 OHP upgraded with GENESIS With 25th Destroyer Squadron
6 F22P with the 18th Destroyer Squadron
6 F23P and raise a new destroyer squadron for these FFG

Total 18 FFG

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FORBIN said:

Currently armament of Jiangwei I / II are :
For I/053H2G :
- They are all equiped with 6 * C-803 ?
- SAM lauchers HQ-61 have 6 missiles ready but how much in reserve?
For II / Type 053H3:
- Now 8 * C-803 ?

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Dhaka to talk frigate purchase with Beijing

The government has formed a committee to negotiate with a Chinese team on purchase of two frigates to enhance Bangladesh’s naval strength in the resourceful Bay of Bengal, officials said.
Commodore Khandokar Tawfiquzzaman of Bangladesh Navy is heading the 10-member local negotiating committee and commander Kazi Mehdi Masud will act as its member- secretary.
Other members of the committee are: captain M Ziauddin Alamgir, captain M Jahangir Alam and commander SM Riazul Rasdid of the navy, commander Sayeed Mahmud Hasan of the armed forced division and one member each from the ministries of finance, defence and law and senior finance controller of the navy.
Officials said the Chinese delegation of PLA navy is scheduled to visit Bangladesh in the current month and will stay here until the middle of June.
The delegation will also include officials of Bometec, a leading Chinese electric company, and Poly Tech, a subsidiary of China Poly Group Corporation manufacturing defence equipment.
Both the sides will work out details of the state-to-state frigate purchase agreement the groundwork of which was laid during the visit of prime minister Sheikh Hasina to China in March 2010.
Beijing had offered two of its old 053H2 frigates at a very lower rate on conditions that Dhaka would bear refurbishment and defence equipment costs for the off-the-shelf ships.
Officials said the armed forced division had planned to utilise budgetary allocations of Tk 6.55 billion to be given for 2012-13 to 2016-17 fiscals for the purchase of the proposed frigates.
China had built the frigates in early 1990s which are capable of carrying eight anti-ship missiles.
At present, Bangladesh Navy has six frigates – BNS Bangabandhu, formerly known as BNS Khalid bin Walid of South Korea, BNS Osman of China and BNS Umar Farooq, BNS Abu Bakar and BNS Ali Haider of the UK.
But half of the frigates will be decommissioned in near future or are in the process of decommissioning.
Officials said commissioning of the 053H2-type frigates would help the navy to bolster coastal patrol in the bay, the dimension of which had changed a lot in the last one decade amid growing interest of India, China and the US in the area.
Bangladesh and its neighbour Myanmar were on the edge of a war in the bay in 2009 over oil and gas exploration by the latter in the disputed areas.
Both the countries had engaged in legal battle over the disputed areas in an international court that gave verdict a couple of a month ago. Besides, Bangladesh is still running a legal battle against another neighbour, India, over maritime boundary in the same international court.
Officials said Myanmar also plans to acquire two old frigates from China. The type- 53H1frigates, built in the 1980s, can carry four anti-ship missiles, they said.
Associated Press reported from New Delhi on February 9, 2012 that India had decided to buy 126 multi-role fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks to increase its strength in the Bay of Bengal as well as the Indian Ocean.
The US struck a deal called the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement with Sri Lanka in 2007. ACSA, a military cooperation deal, aims at enhancing the rapid deployment capability of the US forces far away from their bases.
Officials said Dhaka is under pressure from Washington to sign a similar military cooperation deal.

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adeptitus said:

I don't think the Jiangwei class ships carry HQ-61 or HQ-7 reloads onboard. If the ship carried reload rounds, then we'd probably see a bulky reloader behind the SAM station (or at least a crane somewhere near it).

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asif iqbal said:

TK 6.55 billion, that's just short of £60 million, not bad deal

I wonder of Bangladesh is interested in SSK, together we could get 6 for PN and 4 for BN, I guess BN wouldn't be interested in sea launched cruise missiles so configuration would be different

6 SSK with the ability to launch second strike would give Pakistan a true naval standing

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