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BNS ''Bangabandhu'' (Bangla:বানৌজা বঙ্গবন্ধু) is a guided missile frigate of the Bangladesh Navy, and is one of the most modern currently in service. She is currently moored at Chittagong, serving with the ''Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla (COMBAN)''. About 200 personnel serve aboard her. This frigate type is said to the most modern frigate of its class according to the Bangladesh Navy. ==Career== Named after Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is popularly termed as Bangabandhu, the frigate is capable of serving in a combat role, as well as performing peacetime maritime duties. She was laid down on 11 March 1998 at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Republic of Korea, and commissioned on 20 June 2001 as BNS ''Bangabandhu''. Later, the ship was decommissioned for various warranty repair works and placed in reserve class-III as DW 2000-H frigate on 13 February 2002. In 2007 she was commissioned again as BNS ''Khalid Bin Walid''. Later on in 2009 she was renamed as BNS ''Bangabandhu''. The ship participated in ''Exercise Ferocious Falcon'', a Multinational Crisis Management Exercise, held at Doha, Qatar in November 2012. While transiting to the exercise, the frigate visited the port of Kochi, India. The ship took part in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training(CARAT), an annual bilateral exercise with United States Navy, from 2011 to 2015. On 29 August 2013, the ship received the ''National Standard''. Until then ''Bangabandhu'' was serving as the flagship of the Bangladesh Navy. In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a 777-200ER gone missing while in flight. Due to the possibility of finding the wreckage in the Bay of Bengal, ''Bangabandhu'', along with the frigate , joined the search operation in the region. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BNS Bangabandhu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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