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CHILEAN NAVY (CHILE)

SUBMARINES

O'BRIEN submarines (1976)

O'Brien 1980

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
O'Brien 22   Scott-Lithgow, Greenock, UK 17.1.1971 21.12.1972 15.4.1976 stricken 3.2003
Hyatt 23   Scott-Lithgow, Greenock, UK 16.1.1972 26.9.1973 27.9.1976 stricken 4.2000

 

Displacement standard, t

1650

Displacement normal, t

2070 / 2450

Length, m

87.5 pp 89.9 oa

Breadth, m

8.07

Draught, m

5.48

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Admiralty Standard Range 16VVS-AS21 diesel-generators, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

3680 / 6000

Max speed, kts

15 / 17.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 253 (emergency 379)

Endurance, nm(kts) 9000(12) /

Armament

8 - 533 TT (6 bow, 22 Mk 8, SST-4 + 2 aft, 4 Mk 23)

Electronic equipment

type 1006 radar, type 2007, type 187, type 197, type 719 sonars, Porpoise ECM suite, Mk 2, Mk 4 Mod.1B torpedo decoy launchers

Complement

68

Diving depth operational, m

230

   

Project history: Both units of British Oberon class were ordered in 1969. They suffered delays in fitting out due to recabling.

Modernizations: 1994, both: - 2 - 533 TT (aft), type 2007, type 187, type 197, type 719 sonars; + CSU-90 sonar suite, ISUS-90 CCS

Naval service: Hyatt and O'Brien collided with each other on surface in April 1987.

O'Brien 1979

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