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The Bangladesh Navy was established after Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The main purpose of its fleet was to keep surveillance over the nation's maritime territory, natural resources and military assets. The Maritime clash between Bangladesh and Myanmar in 2012 demonstrated a requirement for the Bangladesh Navy to expand its offensive capabilities, and since then, the Navy is carrying out its development and acquisition program for a future known as ''Forces Goal 2030''. Since the conflict with Myanmar is 2011, Bangladesh Navy is working to meet a wider range of objective, and is experiencing a huge expansion in the size of its surface fleet. The Navy is also expanding its aviation capabilities with procurement of AgustaWestland AW109 and Harbin Z-9. While expanding the size of its surface fleet, the Navy have also been replacing its aging fleet such as recent retirement of Type 25 torpedo boats, Leopard-class frigates and several Patrol vessel. On the course of 2010 to 2015, the Navy began a dramatic fleet expansion to expand its capabilities as a blue water navy by adding 15 ships to its surface fleet. There are currently twenty three ships under construction, while the Navy plans to build more than forty ships over the course of next 10 years; Six Durjoy-class, Twenty three Padma-class and Six Type 056 corvette are being constructed at domestic Shipyards and Four Large Frigate, and Few Lightweight Frigate are being bought from foreign market to modernize the Navy. ==Overview== The Highly Ambitious ''Forces Goal 2030'', Phase I (2013-2018) will include: * 4-6 Guided-missile frigate for the Navy. $520 million was approved by the cabinet for four new frigates. ''Type 054 class'' and ''Incheon Class'' are the front runner. United States recently offered 3rd Hamilton Class to the navy. * Acquisition of eight ''Type 056 corvette'' had been finalised by the Navy. Two units had already been delivered to Bangladesh with two more units in construction at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China. Four more units will be developed at Khulna Shipyard. Four ''Minerva-class corvette'' will be given to the Coast Guard. * 2 ''Ming class submarine'', expected to be handed over to the Navy during Mid 2016. Navy is in talks with Russia for three additional units of ''Kilo-class submarine''. * 8 ''Durjoy-class'' and 23 ''Padma-class'' patrol ships are currently under construction at Khulna Shipyard. * Bangladesh Navy and Bangabandhu Aeronautical Centre is currently working to introduce Surveillance UAV to the Navy. Approximately fifty UAV is expected to be deployed over Bay of Bengal and Bangladesh - Myanmar border * Three Squadrons of aircraft is expected to enter service for Bangladesh Navy. 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「Future of the Bangladesh Navy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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