2024 Chinese New Year outlook
Wen Mozhi. In recent years, with the soaring speed of the Chinese Navy's "dumplings", a large number of new warships have joined the active service in batches, which has made the PLA maritime forces reborn in a short period of time and become one of the top navies in the world.
According to Bangladesh state television reports, a few days ago, China's transfer of 053H3 type frigates in Bangladesh Gara Mongla Port unveiled, it is reported that China handed over a total of two warships to Bangladesh, namely the Chinese Navy's original 522 "Lianyungang" and the original 523 "Putian" frigates, after being delivered to the Bangladesh Navy, named "Umar Farouk" and "Abu Ubaida" respectively. As reported by Bangladesh**Two Type 053H3 frigates handed over by China are currently "performing well" in the country's Navy, in line with the expectations of the Bangladesh Navy.
For the arrival of these two **, the Bangladesh Navy can be said to be very excited, although it is decommissioned**, but it can still effectively improve the country's maritime control capabilities. According to Bangladesh**, China modernized and upgraded the two decommissioned frigates in accordance with the requirements of the Bangladesh Navy before transferring them to the Bangladesh Navy.
Military analysts point out that the Type 053H3 frigate is the last upgraded version of the Type 053 frigate, which first entered service with the Chinese Navy in 1998 and has been in service for 19 years. The ship has been used as the main coastal protection ship in the Chinese Navy sequence, with the increase in the number of 054A frigates of the Chinese Navy and 052C, 052D destroyers and even 055 large drives, the 053H3 frigate is becoming more and more marginalized, especially after the emergence of the 056 type corvette, the vast majority of the tasks of the 053H3 frigate can be replaced by other more advanced **, 053H3 has very few uses, and the ship has been in service for nearly 20 years, Quite a few 053H3 have been decommissioned, and the ship has no market in the Chinese Navy, but it is very attractive to some small countries.
These small countries lack naval budgets to afford the huge cost of new ships, and most of them are not well armed with naval equipment to protect their maritime rights and interests. For example, this is the case with Bangladesh in South Asia, which is one of the least developed countries in the world and cannot afford the huge cost of a new type of frigate, but there are countries such as India around it, and it cannot give up maritime defense, so decommissioning ** is the first choice for the Bangladesh Navy, plus Bangladesh and China have maintained friendly and cooperative relations, and China also tries to meet the needs of Bangladesh.
The 053H3 frigate is China's second-generation fully enclosed design missile frigate, with relatively balanced capabilities in all aspects of air, anti-ship and anti-submarine capabilities, and 053H3 is the last upgraded version of the ship, which means that the ship integrates the best characteristics of the 053 type frigate, and has played the last potential of the 053 ship type, the ship can be used as the main beam of the Chinese Navy from the late 90s to the beginning of the 21st century.
Although it is a product at the end of the last century, the fully enclosed design allows it to have three defense capabilities, and can theoretically be used to fight in any sea area of the earth, while Bangladesh is located in the southern ** zone, which is hot and humid all year round, and the fully enclosed bridge allows sailors to train and combat in a constant temperature space. In addition, the ship is fully diesel powered, with a speed of 25 knots, and even the cruising speed reaches 16 knots, with a range of up to 5,000 nautical miles. For the rest of Bangladesh, the speed and range are satisfying.
In addition, the ship was equipped with the Haihongqi-7 anti-aircraft missile when it was in service with the Chinese Navy, and then it can be upgraded to a more advanced Haihongqi-10 anti-aircraft missile, and anti-submarine ** can be used anti-ship missiles, the ship's current anti-ship missiles can also be upgraded to the latest YJ-83 anti-ship missiles, and can even bring certain threats to the advanced destroyers and frigates of neighboring countries, so Bangladesh can be said to have a treasure for the ship, not only will the ship be used as the main ship of the navy, but also will expand the ship's team in the future, To provide a guarantee for Bangladesh to defend its maritime rights, it is certain that with the arrival of the Chinese ship, India, which has always considered itself the hegemon of South Asia, will definitely be unhappy again.