The Royal Thai Navy operates 2 Bang Rachan Class ships of a Lurssen MCMV48
design launched in the 1980’s in the Naval Mine Countermeasures (NMCM) role. The
Royal Thai Navy has contracted Thales UK to provide an upgrade of these ships. The
upgrade consists of survey, removal, supply, overhaul, design, modify, install, integrate
and ship’s system testing consists in summary of: