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QATAR NAVY (QATAR)

COASTAL FORCES

DAMSAH fast attack craft (missile) (1982-1983)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
دامسة [Damsah] Q01   CMN, Cherbourg, France 6.5.1981 17.6.1982 10.11.1982 in service (2020)
الجهرية [Al Ghariyah] Q02   CMN, Cherbourg, France 26.8.1981 23.9.1982 10.2.1983 in service (2020)
ربجة [Rbigah] Q03   CMN, Cherbourg, France 27.10.1981 22.12.1982 11.5.1983 in service (2020)

 

Displacement standard, t

395

Displacement full, t

430

Length, m

53.0 pp 56.0 oa

Breadth, m

8.20

Draught, m

2.70 max

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 MTU 20V538 TB93 diesels

Power, h. p.

19300

Max speed, kts

38.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

2000(15)

Armament

2 x 4 MM40 Exocet SSM (8 MM40), 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Breda-Bofors Compact Twin 40, 2 x 2 - 30/75 Emerlec EX-30

Sensors

Decca 1226, Pollux, Castor II radars, 2x Panda e/o systems, Cutlass ECM suite, Dagaie decoy RL

Complement

47

Project history: Combattante IIIM type, ordered in 1980.

Modernizations: 1996-1998, all: - Pollux radar; + Triton II MTI radar, Cygnus ECM suite

Naval service: No significant events.

Rbigah 2010

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