BNS Bangabandhu

BNS "Bangabandhu" () is a guided missile frigate of the Bangladesh Navy, and is one of the most modern currently in service. She is currently moored at Chattogram, serving with the Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla (COMBAN).
Armament.
This vessel has the Otomat Mk 2 Block IV anti-ship missiles on board the vessel which has a range of .
In April 2018, Bangladesh Navy issued a tender for replacing two 40 mm Fast Forty guns on board the ship with new 40 mm twin-barrel gun system.
Career.
Named after Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is popularly termed as Bangabandhu. 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 work and placed in reserve class-III as DW 2000-H frigate on 13 February 2002. In 2007 she was recommissioned again under a new name, as BNS "Khalid Bin Walid". Later on in 2009 she was renamed 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". 
In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a 777-200ER, went 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.
On 31 May 2016, she started for Colombo, Sri Lanka with 150 tonnes of relief for the victims of the floods and landslides caused by Cyclone Roanu. The relief included drugs, water purifying machines, pure drinking water, tents, food items and generators. She also joined the rescue efforts there.
The ship left for Qatar on 22 February 2018 to take part in 6th "Doha International Maritime Exhibition and Conference (DIMDEX-2018)" to be held from 12 to 14 March 2018. She paid goodwill visits to Mumbai port, in India, from 2 to 5 March 2018 and to Colombo port in Sri Lanka from 22 to 25 March 2018. On 29 March 2018, she returned to her homeport, Chattogram.