Engineering:49m Stealth Fast Attack Craft

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Short description: ship class
MN-491.jpg
The 491
Class overview
Builders: Myanmar Naval Dockyard
Operators: Template:Country data MYA
Preceded by: 5-Series class : Fast Attack Craft
Succeeded by: Yan Nyein Aung-class submarine chaser
Built: 2013–present
In commission: 491 (2015), 492 (2020)
Planned: 10[1]
Completed: 2[1]
Active: 2[1][2]
General characteristics
Type: FAC (Missile)
Displacement: 500 tons[1]
Length: 49 m (161 ft)[1]
Beam: 7.4 m (24 ft)
Draft: 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:
  • (491)
  • 4 x diesel engines
  • (492)
  • 3 x diesel engines supported by three waterjet propulsors
Speed: 30 kn (56 km/h)
Range: 1,800 mi (2,900 km) at cruising speed
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 1 x MR-36A 3D surface-search radar(491 is with Magnetron transmitter.492 is with Solid-state transmitter.)
  • 1 x MR-34T(Type-344) Fire control radar
  • 2 x Furuno navigation radars
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • 491
    • 1 x NRJ-5A ECM and ELINT system
    • 4 x Type-A FL-NA flare catridge magazines for various chaff and flare types
  • 492
    • 4 x NRJ-5A Type-C ECM and ELINT systems (fitted in four faces of radar tower)
    • 4 x Type-A FL-NA flare catridge magazines for various chaff and flare types
Armament:
Notes: The hull design of 492 is different from that of the 491. The superstructure of 492 was constructed with aluminium, and the hull with steel. The anti-ship missiles in use are the C-802A instead of the C-802.

The 49m Stealth Fast Attack Craft (Project-PB-049) are a class of locally made Fast Attack Craft of the Myanmar Navy. Unlike the previous class of 5-series class Fast Attack Craft, the design of the 49m Stealth Fast Attack Craft utilizes stealth technology. The hull number 491 is the lead ship of this class, and it was completed in 2013.[3][1] The second ship 492 was completed in 2019, and commissioned on 24 December 2020. The 492 is fitted with three waterjet propulsers. The hull design and armaments are slightly altered.[4]

Ships of the class

Photo Pennant Builder Built Commissioned Homeport Note
MN-491.jpg 491 Myanmar Naval Dockyard 2013 24 December 2015 Thanlyin
FAC(M) 492 of Myanmar Navy.jpg 492 Myanmar Naval Dockyard 2018 24 December 2020[5] Thanlyin Hull design slightly altered

Reference

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "Myanmar First Two Home-Built 49 meter Fast Attack Craft (FAC-M) Delivered to the Navy". https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/year-2015-news/january-2015-navy-naval-forces-defense-industry-technology-maritime-security-global-news/2306-myanmar-first-two-home-built-49-meter-fast-attack-craft-fac-m-delivered-to-the-navy.html. 
  2. ↑ Information Team, Tatmadaw (24 December 2020). "(၇၃)နှစ်မြောက်တပ်မတော်(ရေ)နေ့အထိမ်းအမှတ် တိုက်ခိုက်ရေးရေငုပ်သင်္ဘော စစ်ရေယာဉ် (မင်းရဲသိင်္ခသူ) အပါအဝင် စစ်ရေယာဉ်များ တပ်တော်ဝင်ခြင်း အခမ်းအနား ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်". http://dsinfo.org/node/771. 
  3. ↑ "Myanmar - 49-meter FAC-M". https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/myanmar/ums-491.htm. 
  4. ↑ Information Team, Tatmadaw (24 December 2020). "(၇၃)နှစ်မြောက်တပ်မတော်(ရေ)နေ့အထိမ်းအမှတ် တိုက်ခိုက်ရေးရေငုပ်သင်္ဘော စစ်ရေယာဉ် (မင်းရဲသိင်္ခသူ) အပါအဝင် စစ်ရေယာဉ်များ တပ်တော်ဝင်ခြင်း အခမ်းအနား ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်". http://dsinfo.org/node/771. 
  5. ↑ Information Team, Tatmadaw (24 December 2020). "(၇၃)နှစ်မြောက် တပ်မတော်(ရေ)နေ့ အထိမ်းအမှတ် တိုက်ခိုက်ရေး ရေငုပ်သင်္ဘော စစ်ရေယာဉ် (မင်းရဲသိင်္ခသူ) အပါအဝင် စစ်ရေယာဉ်များ တပ်တော်ဝင်ခြင်း အခမ်းအနား ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်". http://dsinfo.org/node/771. 




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