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BNS Durbar is a Type 024 missile boat of Bangladesh Navy. The ship served Bangladesh Navy from 1983 to 2017.
| History | |
|---|---|
 Bangladesh | |
| Name | BNS Durbar |
| Builder | Wuhu Shipyard |
| Commissioned | 6 April 1983 |
| Decommissioned | 30 March 2017 |
| Identification | Pennant number P-8111 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Type 024 class missile boat |
| Displacement | 79 tons |
| Length | 79 m (259 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 27 m (88 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Installed power | 4 × Chinese L-12V-180 diesel engines; 4,800 hp (3,600 kW) |
| Propulsion | 4 shafts |
| Speed | 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph) |
| Range | 520 nmi (960 km; 600 mi) at 26 kn (48 km/h; 30 mph) |
| Complement | 17 |
| Sensors and processing systems | 1 × Type 352 Square Tie surface search radar |
| Armament |
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Career
editBNS Durbar was commissioned on 6 April 1983. In the cyclone of 1991, the ship was damaged and later on repaired. In '"Exercise Sea Thunder 2014", Durbar fired SY-1 missile.[1] She was decommissioned from the Bangladesh Navy on 30 March 2017. Later on she was scrapped.
Design
editThe ship carries two SY-1 anti-ship missiles. Besides, it also carries two Type 61 25 mm guns. For surface search, it has a Type 352 Square Tie Radar. It carries the Chinese copy of Soviet M50 engine called L-12V-180 engines which can run the ship at a top speed of 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph).
References
edit- ^ "Exercise Sea Thunder ends with missile firing". Daily Sun. 18 February 2014. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014.