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Myanmar equips second Kyan Sit Thar-class frigate with Indian-made radar​

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Minga-Lar-Bar MILAN 2024 - The Sunrise Command of the Indian Navy extends a warm welcome to UMS King Sin Phyu Shin F14, a Kyan Sittha Class Frigate of Myanmar Navy which arrived at Visakhapatnam on 18 Feb 2024 to participate in the Multilateral Naval Exercise MILAN 2024
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source: Indian Navy :
https://indiannavy.nic.in/content/kyan-sittha-class-frigate-myanmar-navy-which-arrived-visakhapatnam

Myanmar has equipped its second Kyan Sit Thar-class guided-missile frigate, UMS Sin Phyu Shin, with the Indian-made Revathi 3D air surveillance radar.

Janes can now confirm that the radar was fully incorporated in 2023, and a partial validation of its capabilities was carried out at the ‘Milan' multilateral naval exercise in Visakhapatnam, India. The exercise ran from 19 to 27 February 2024.

Images of Sin Phyu Shin arriving at Visakhapatnam for the exercise were released by the Indian Navy on 19 February, and they depict the frigate with what appears to be a new sensor on the pedestal above its aft superstructure.

The sensor that was previously found in this position was the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) RAWL-02 surface search radar.

Janes has since verified that BEL was contracted to replace this with the Revathi radar as part of its efforts to improve the frigate's air-defence capabilities.

The Revathi radar is capable of multiple target tracking and has an integrated identification friend-or-foe (IFF) facility. It is believed to have a maximum range of about 180 km, with elevation coverage of up to 18,000 m.

Sin Phyu Shin is a Myanmar Naval Dockyard-built frigate that was commissioned by the Myanmar Navy in December 2015. The class appears to have heavily derived its design from the country's sole Aung Zeya-class frigate.

Myanmar equips second Kyan Sit Thar-class frigate with Indian-made radar
 
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Please post export related news on the export thread.

Although this update was posted here more than a month ago.

Myanmar Navy's Kyan Sittha-class frigates have a significant amount of Indian made hardware.

The propulsion setup is very similar to the IN's Kamorta class ASW corvettes. The engines used are the Pielstick 12PA 6 STC6 diesel engines license manufactured in India. The reduction gear box is from Elcon & GRSE provides the controllable pitch propellers.

Kyan Sittha-class frigates uses the Oto Melara 76mm as its primary naval gun. It is not known if those guns are directly imported from Italy for from BHEL-Haridwar. The ships use BEL's hull mounted HUMSA-HMX sonars. The frigates also use the Sheyna torpedoes, BDL exported those torpedoes.

The ships originally came equipped with a Chinese surface search radar & the BEL RAWL-2 for AD/volume search roles. Older photo from 2018:
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Newer phots from MILAN-2024 show that the BEL RAWL-2 has been replaced by BEL REVATHI:
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Again, striking similarity to the IN's Kamorta class corvettes:
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The Myanmar Navy has switched from the RAWL-2 to REVATHI in just a few years of use. While IN is still receiving destroyers with RAWLs. The RAWLs aren't great but they are not terrible either. Perhaps the reason for the relatively quick retirement of the RAWLs & an early adoption of the REVATHI is the VL-SRSAM.
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Currently the only AD on the Kyan Sittha-class frigates are 2 units of a Chinese copy of the AK-630 & some Igla-S MANPADS. VL-SRSAM could fill the medium range SAM role quite well, assuming the ships has enough underdeck space to accommodate a 16/32 cell VLU.

Maybe BDL has an export order coming.

Link: Indian Defence Exports