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AS SIDDIQ fast attack craft (missile) (1980-1982)

As Siddiq 1990

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
أس صديق [As Siddiq] 511   Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA 30.9.1978 22.9.1979 15.12.1980 in service (2019)
الفاروق [Al Farouq] 513   Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA 12.3.1979 17.5.1980 22.6.1981 in service (2019)
عبدال عزيز [Abdul Aziz] 515   Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA 19.10.1979 23.8.1980 3.9.1981 in service (2019)
فيصل [Faisal] 517   Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA 4.3.1980 15.11.1980 23.11.1981 in service (2019)
خالد [Khalid] 519   Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA 27.6.1980 28.3.1981 11.1.1982 in service (2019)
عمر [Amr] 521   Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA 21.10.1980 13.6.1981 21.6.1982 in service (2019)
طارق [Tariq] 523   Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA 10.2.1981 23.9.1981 16.8.1982 in service (2019)
عقباه [Oqbah] 525   Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA 8.5.1981 12.12.1981 18.10.1982 in service (2019)
أبو عبيده [Abu Obaidah] 527   Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, USA 4.9.1981 3.4.1982 6.12.1982 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

425

Displacement full, t

495

Length, m

58.0

Breadth, m

8.08

Draught, m

1.95 hull

No of shafts

2

Machinery

CODOG: 1 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbine / 2 MTU 12V652 TB91 diesels

Power, h. p.

23000 / 3000

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

diesel / gas turbine oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

2900(14)

Armament

2 x 2 Harpoon SSM (4 RGM-84C), 1 x 1 - 76/62 Mk 75, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Phalanx Mk 15, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 1 - 81/12 M29, 2 x 1 - 40/19 Mk 19 grenade launchers

Electronic equipment

SPS-55, Mk 92, Mk 90 radars, SLQ-32(v)1 ECM suite, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

Complement

38

Project history: US PGG type, ordered in 1972. They have the same machinery as larger Badr class corvettes and the same armament (without ASW abilities). Heavily overweight.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Oqbah 2010

© Ivan Gogin, 2019