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LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ERRAHMANI small frigate (1983)

Lieutenant-Colonel Errahmani 2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
لوطننة كولونيل رحمان [Lieutenant-Colonel Errahmani] 501   Bazán, El Ferrol, Spain 20.3.1979 26.2.1982 28.3.1983 in service (2019)
  

Displacement standard, t

1270

Displacement full, t

1520

Length, m

85.8 pp 88.9 oa

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

3.78

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Bazán-MTU 16V956 TB91 diesels

Power, h. p.

16000

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

diesel oil 150

Endurance, nm(kts) 4000(18)

Armament

2 x 2 MM38 Exocet SSM (4 MM38) (fitted for but never installed), 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 Mod.5 TT (6 Mk 46 mod.2), 1 x 2 - 375 Bofors SR375 ASWRL

Electronic equipment

ZW-06, DA-05, WM-25/41, Decca nav. radars, DE1160B sonar, ELT715 ECM suite, 2x Dagaie decoy RL, SEWACO MR CCS

Complement

100

Project history: Spanish Descubierta class, ordered in 1977. MM38 Exocet missiles were never installed.

Modernizations: 1995: - 2 x 1 - 40/70; + 2 x 1 - 40/70 Breda-Bofors 564, Decca nav. (2nd) radar

1997: - DA-05 radar

1999: + DA-05 radar

Naval service: No significant events.

Lieutenant-Colonel Errahmani 2006

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