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Thai Shipyard Marsun to supply M58 Patrol Gun Boat for Royal Thai Navy
Thai Shipyard Marsun to supply M58 Patrol Gun Boat for Royal Thai Navy
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Shipyard Marsun to supply M58 Patrol Gun Boat for Royal Thai Navy
It
was announced during “Defense & Security 2013" exhibition
that was held recently in Bangkok that national shipyard Marsun will
supply a M58 Patrol Gun Boat to the Royal Thai Navy.
M58 Patrol
Gun Boat
(Picutre: Marsun)
This
new class of Patrol Boat is expected to replace Huahin class ships:
HTMS Huahin (541), HTMS Klang (542) and HTMS Sriracha (543), which were
built by Asian Marine Services and Royal Thai Naval Dockyard.
The M58 Patrol Gun Boat type had a lenght of 58 meters and top speed
of 24 knots. It is armed with a 76mm Oto Melara (compact variant) main
gun, one 30mm cannon from MSI Defence and two .50 cal machine guns.
Thales is likely to supply its TACTICOS combat management system as
well as its MIRADOR optronic system.