And that shows that they've never built a ship that big, right? It's purely a paper design. The largest surface warships that North Korea can build are only about 1,600 tons.
With that fact, from Myanmar's perspective, even if they wanted to buy a 2000t warship from abroad, they would not want to bet on a contractor with unproven quality like North Korea.
That's not what the Myanmar commission said.
They didn't question the North Korean project, they simply wrote that it had similar characteristics to the frigate they were building (work began in 2008).
Moreover, in the following days during the visit to China, they were not interested in newly built Chinese frigates or corvettes, but in second-hand type 053H1 frigate:
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n China, the group had the opportunity to observe a frigate. It was a 103.32-meter long, missile frigate type 053H1, and therefore, it is not too different from the frigate Burma is building, and it weighs only 1960 tons.
The weapons on that type 053H1 are as follows:
(1) Two dual barrel 100 mm main gun;
(2) Four dual barrel 37 mm AA gun;
(3) 5 barrel 250 mm anti-submarine rocket launcher;
(4) SY-1 SSMs missile;
(5) Command and control system;
(6) Electronic warfare weapon system (923-1 decoy launcher).
(d) Compared to the frigate naval ship built in Burma, that ship will have C802 SSM (120) km, as an update to the SY-1 missile. Their frigate is smaller and lighter than ours, and it has no torpedo weapons that can destroy above- and under-water enemies, and therefore, the weapons need to be updated to be modern.>>
Who then purchased two of those frigates to quickly upgrade the fleet while awaiting the completion of their next two frigates F12 (UMS Kyansitta), F14 (UMS Sin Phyu Shin)
have achieved this, so rumors that they are working on creating a domestically designed and produced fighter aircraft may come tru