A fourth Frigate is under construction at the Myanmar naval shipyard in Sinmalayik, Yangon. It is reported that the construction of the ship is carried out with the technical assistance of China and North Corea.
Myanmar Navy already operates two former PLAN (chinese) Jianghu II-class (Type 053H1) frigates
Based on an earlier Soviet Riga Class (Project 50) design of frigate the Type 053 covers a family of sub-classes with variants that were built starting in the mid 1970’s until 2004. The 053H1 class was built at the Hudong Shipyard, China from 1981 to 1988.
The two frigates of 1,702 t displacement with the Myanmar Navy are now named UMS Mahar Bandoola (F-21) and UMS Mahar Thiha Thura (F-23).
Myanmar; 4th, Frigate under construction at local yard