US military to investigate 2022 loss of Sukhothai corvette vessel

The US-built Sukhothai Rattanakosin-class corvette vessel

The Navy is to let the US military to investigate the cause of the sinking of the US-built Sukhothai Rattanakosin-class corvette vessel in the seas off Prachuap Khiri Khan province in December of 2022, as requested by the Joint US Military Advisory Group Thailand (JUSMAGTHAI), Admiral Adung Phan-iam, commander-in-chief of the RTN, said today.

JUSMAGTHAI wrote two letters to the Thai Navy reminding it to comply with the terms of the US-Thai military agreement pertaining to the acquisition of US-made military hardware.

Admiral Adung said that the US team, which will conduct an undersea survey of the sunken vessel, will arrive in Thailand with US troops, who will participate in the Cobra Gold military exercise in February.

HTMS Sukhothai, is one of the two Rattanakosin-class corvettes, built by US ship-building company Tacoma…