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BNS Madhumati

Sea Dragon-class patrol craft

BNS Madhumati is a sea Dragon-class patrol craft. It was built by Hyundai , Ulsan, Republic of Korea.

Technical data

Specifications

19 fields · 1 source · retrieved 2 Oct 2026

True scale

Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.

Beam

8 m (26 ft 3 in)¹

Draught

2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)¹

Speed: 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)¹
Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)¹
Complement: 43 (7 officers)¹

Propulsion: 2 × SEMT-Pielstick 12 PA6 diesels; 9,600 hp(m) (7.08 MW) sustained 2 × shafts¹
Armament: 1 × Bofors 57 mm/70 Mk 1 1 × Bofors 40 mm/70 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm¹

Name: BNS Madhumati¹
Ordered: July 1995¹
Builder: Hyundai , Ulsan, Republic of Korea¹
Launched: 31 August 1997¹
Acquired: October 1997¹
Commissioned: 18 February 1998¹
Home port: Chattogram¹
Identification: Pennant number : P 911¹
Class & type: Sea Dragon-class patrol craft¹
Electronic warfare & decoys: Weapons Control: Optronic director Surface Search and navigation: Kelvin Hughes KH 1007, I-band, Navigation: GEM Electronics SPN 753B; I-band¹

Sources & original excerpts1 reference

Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1 countries documented

BNS Madhumati equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.

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1Reported holdingsBNS Madhumati · reported variants · NavyEstimate · Period November 2025 IISS assessment · Single source
Count scope
Navy exact named equipment holdings: Madhumati (ROK Sea Dragon). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: PATROL AND COASTAL COMBATANTS / PCO. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.