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‘Kedah’ class corvette 6
‘Perdana’ class offshore patrol vessel 4
‘Handalan’ class offshore patrol vessel 4
‘Jerung’ class offshore patrol vessel 6
‘Sri Tiga’ class offshore patrol vessel 2
‘CB-90’ class fast attack craft 17
‘Sri Indera Sakti’ class multi 1
role support ship
‘Mahawangsa’ class multi 1
role support ship
‘Mahamiru’ class mine 4
countermeasures vessel
‘Gagah Samudera’ class training ship One delivered to the navy in
March 2017, one under construction.
‘Hang Tuah’ class training ship 1
‘Perantau’ class hydrographic ship 1
‘Mutiara’ class hydrographic ship 1
‘Bunga Mas’ class auxiliary vessel Two anti-piracy escorts for
Malaysian merchant ships with
partly civilian crews. Diving support ship HMNZS Manawanui will be replaced in 2020,
along with the hydrographic ship HMNZS Resolution, by the RNZN new
multipurpose Littoral Operations Support Capability.
RNZN
The Pakistani Navy destroyer PNS
Shahjahan and the USS Mobile
Bay ‘Ticonderoga’ class cruiser
(in background) transit the
Arabian Sea during an exercise.
US Navy
The Royal Malaysian Navy offshore patrol vessel KD Terengganu and a
US Navy Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk naval support helicopter, conduct
a coordinated air and sea search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370
which disappeared on 8th March 2014.
US Navy
An expansion of the submarine fleet by three conventional hunter-
killer submarines remains under consideration. In November 2014 Daewoo
was awarded a contract to build six corvettes. Three of these ships will
be completed in the Republic of Korea, and three will be assembled in
Malaysia from modules supplied by the manufacturer. Funding issues are
delaying these projects, as well as longer term plans for additional corvettes
and support ships. Local sources report that on 23rd March the Malaysian
Ministry of Defence and Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS) signed a contract
for the construction of four littoral mission vessels for the Malaysian Navy.
This is part of a contract signed between the government of Malaysia and the
People’s Republic of China, whereby two ships will be built in the PRC and
two ships will be build by BNS under a transfer of technology agreement.
New ZealaNd
■ Royal New ZealaNd Navy
Ship Type Number in Service
‘ANZAC’ class frigate 2
‘Canterbury’ class multi-role vessel 1
‘Endeavour’ class replenishment vessel 1
‘Otago’ class offshore patrol vessel 2
‘Rotoifi’ class inshore patrol vessel 4
‘Manawanui’ class diving support vessel 1
Ice–strengthened logistic support vessel One under construction.
A programme to upgrade New Zealand’s maritime capabilities by 2020,
with particular emphasis on safeguarding the security of the nation’s offshore
areas of responsibility, is underway. In July 2016, a contract was awarded
to Hyundai to build the ‘Polar’ class ice-strengthened oiler to replace the
HMNZS Endeavour, and in September 2016 Rolls Royce announced that it
would supply a Combined Diesel Electric and Diesel (CODLAD) propulsion
system for this ship.
In October 2016, Freire Shipyard in Spain and BMT Defence Services
in the UK teamed up to bid for New Zealand’s Littoral Operations Support
Capability (LOSC) programme, through which it intends to replace the
Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) current diving support ship HMNZS
Manawanui and the hydrographic ship HMNZS Resolution by procuring a
single multipurpose vessel. Bids had to be submitted by 25th November 2016
and the LOSC capability is expected to enter service in 2020.
Plans are also in hand for the eventual replacement of the ‘ANZAC’ class
frigates with larger and more capable ships. BAE Systems’ Global Combat
Ship design, which is also equipping the Royal Navy, is one of the designs
under consideration.
PakistaN
■ PakiSTaN Navy
Ship Type Number in Service
‘Yuan’ class conventional Eight planned.
hunter-killer submarine
‘Hashmat’ class conventional 2
hunter-killer submarine
‘Khalid’ class conventional 3
hunter-killer submarine
‘Zulfiquar’ class frigate 4. Another four more planned.
‘Tariq’ class frigate 5
‘Alamgir’ class frigate 1
‘Azmat’ class fast attack craft 2. Two more are under
construction in Pakistan.
‘Larkana’ class fast attack craft 2
‘Jalalat-II’ class fast attack craft 2
‘Jurrat’ class fast attack craft 2
‘MRTP-15’ class fast attack craft 2
‘MRTP-33’ class fast attack craft 2
‘Munsif’ class mine 3
countermeasures vessel