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EGYPTIAN NAVY (EGYPT)

ESCORTS

EL SUEZ frigates (1984)

El Suez 2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
السويس [El Suez] (ex-Centinela) 941   Bazán, Ferrol, Spain 31.10.1978 8.10.1979 21.5.1984 in service (2019)
أبو قير [Aboukir] (ex-Serviola) 946   Bazán, Ferrol, Spain 28.2.1979 20.12.1979 27.10.1984 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

1270

Displacement full, t

1560

Length, m

85.8 pp 88.9 oa

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

3.95 mean 5.20 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 MTU-Bazán 16V956 TB91 diesels

Power, h. p.

18000

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

diesel oil 250

Endurance, nm(kts)

6100(18)

Armament

2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84A/C), 1 x 8 Albatros SAM (24 Aspide), 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact, 2 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 350, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 1 x 2 - 375 Bofors ASWRL

Electronic equipment

DA-05/2, ZW-06/2, WM-25 radars, DE1160B, DE1167 sonars, Beta ECM suite

Complement

116

Project history: Both ships were laid down for the Spanish Navy but purchased by Egypt in 1982.

Modernizations: 1995-1996, both: - ZW-06/2 radar; + ZW-06/Z radar, 2x SRBOC Mk 35 decoy RL, SEWACO CCS

Naval service: No significant events.

El Suez 1999

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