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TAHYA MISR frigate (2015)

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.

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