49m Stealth Fast Attack Craft

The 49m Stealth Fast Attack Craft 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]

The 491
Class overview
Builders:	Myanmar Naval Dockyard
Operators:	Myanmar Navy
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:	1 x NG-18 6-barrel 30 mm CIWS[1] 2 x locally made Type-91 quadruple remote-controlled AA guns 4 x C-802 Anti-ship missiles (fitted on the 491)[1] 4 x C-802A Anti-ship missiles (fitted on the 492) 2 x Igla SAM launchers[1] 2 x locally made MA-16 heavy machine guns
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.

Ships of the class

Photo	Pennant	Builder	Built	Commissioned	Homeport	Note
	491	Myanmar Naval Dockyard	2013	24 December 2015	Thanlyin
	492	Myanmar Naval Dockyard	2018	24 December 2020[5]	Thanlyin	Hull design slightly altered

Reference

1. "Myanmar First Two Home-Built 49 meter Fast Attack Craft (FAC-M) Delivered to the Navy". www.navyrecognition.com. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
2. Information Team, Tatmadaw (24 December 2020). "(၇၃)နှစ်မြောက်တပ်မတော်(ရေ)နေ့အထိမ်းအမှတ် တိုက်ခိုက်ရေးရေငုပ်သင်္ဘော စစ်ရေယာဉ် (မင်းရဲသိင်္ခသူ) အပါအဝင် စစ်ရေယာဉ်များ တပ်တော်ဝင်ခြင်း အခမ်းအနား ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်". Tatmadaw. Archived from the original on 24 December 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
3. "Myanmar - 49-meter FAC-M". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
4. Information Team, Tatmadaw (24 December 2020). "(၇၃)နှစ်မြောက်တပ်မတော်(ရေ)နေ့အထိမ်းအမှတ် တိုက်ခိုက်ရေးရေငုပ်သင်္ဘော စစ်ရေယာဉ် (မင်းရဲသိင်္ခသူ) အပါအဝင် စစ်ရေယာဉ်များ တပ်တော်ဝင်ခြင်း အခမ်းအနား ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်". Tatmadaw. Archived from the original on 24 December 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
5. Information Team, Tatmadaw (24 December 2020). "(၇၃)နှစ်မြောက် တပ်မတော်(ရေ)နေ့ အထိမ်းအမှတ် တိုက်ခိုက်ရေး ရေငုပ်သင်္ဘော စစ်ရေယာဉ် (မင်းရဲသိင်္ခသူ) အပါအဝင် စစ်ရေယာဉ်များ တပ်တော်ဝင်ခြင်း အခမ်းအနား ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်". Tatmadaw. Archived from the original on 24 December 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2020.