Tahya Misr 2015
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
تحيا مصر [Tahya Misr] (ex-Normandie) | 1001 | DCNS, Lorient, France | 8.10.2009 | 18.10.2012 | 23.6.2015 | in service (2019) |
Displacement standard, t |
4500 |
Displacement full, t |
6040 |
Length, m |
129.0 pp 142.2 oa |
Breadth, m |
18.0 wl 19.7 deck |
Draught, m |
7.50 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
CODLOG: 1 General Electric-Avio LM2500+G4 gas turbine / 4 MTU 16V4000 M408B diesel-generators, 2 Jeumont electric motors |
Power, h. p. |
43520 / 6000 |
Max speed, kts |
27 |
Fuel, t |
diesel oil / gas turbine oil |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 6000(15) |
Armament |
2 x 4 MM40 Exocet Block III SSM (8 MM40), 2 x 8 Sylver A43 VLS (16 Aster-15 SAM), 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact SR, 2 x 1 - 20/90 Narwhal-20B, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 2 - 324 B515/H/2 TT (19 MU90), 1 helicopter (NH90) |
Electronic equipment |
2x Terma Scanter 2001, Herakles, NA-25XP radars, Artemis IR e/o detector, Najir e/o director, UMS-4110CL, CAPTAS UMS-4249 sonars, SIGEN, FIGN ECM suites, 2x NGDS decoy RL, 2x WASS SLAT torpedo decoy launchers, SETIS CCS |
Complement |
108 |
Project history: French FREMM class frigate Aquitaine, purchased by Egypt 16.2.2015 and completed without MDCN cruise missile VLS and JASS ECM suite.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
Many thanks to ChangZhi Wang for additional information on this page.
© Ivan Gogin, 2018-19