Myanmar has already built and commissioned the submarine base even before the arrival of first Kilo submarine.
All three processes, acquiring the submarine, building the base and training the crews, were implemented simultaneously.
Highly classified submarine base is already completed in the undisclosed location. It is also protected with shore based air defence and anti ship missile batteries.
Kh 35 anti ship missiles from F 11 frigates are also modified with ground radar and relocated to the submarine base as a shore based missile battery.
Unlike Bangladeshi netizens, Myanmar will never disclose any sensitive military installations.
Myanmar Navy sent hundreds of submariners to India, China, Pakistan and and Russia.
According to the military spokesman, Myanmar submariners have already completed more than a dozen round trips with the Kilo between the coast iIndia and Myanmar even before the transfer of the submarine. They also conducted some live firings of torpedoes in the Bay of Bengals.
Myanmar military doctors even received underwater medicines training from Japan.
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Buying a submarine is not a big deal. If you have enough money, you can buy it.
However sustaining a submarine fleet is far more complicated.
In order to sustain a submarine fleet with 2 submarines, at least 400 submarine crews and 200 maintenance crew are needed.
That’s why Myanmar put more emphasis on training.
The kilo Myanmar received from India is equipped with Klub. And a number of tripartite discussions between Myanmar, India and Russia were conducted for the transferring of Klub system to Myanmar along with the Kilo.