SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY (SOUTH AFRICA)
Jan Smuts 1980
Isaac Dyobha 2010
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Jan Smuts | P1561 | Israeli SY, Haifa, Israel | 2.1977 | 9.1977 | stricken 3.1998 | |
| P. W. Botha, 4.1997- Shaka | P1562 | Israeli SY, Haifa, Israel | 9.9.1977 | 2.12.1977 | stricken 2004 | |
| Frederick Creswell, 4.1997- Adam Kok | P1563 | Israeli SY, Haifa, Israel | 15.1.1978 | 6.4.1978 | stricken 2005 | |
| Jim Fouché, 4.1997- Sekhukhuni | P1564 | Sandock Austral SY, Durban | 18.9.1978 | 22.12.1978 | stricken 2004 | |
| Franz Erasmus, 4.1997- Isaac Dyobha | P1565 | Sandock Austral SY, Durban | 16.3.1979 | 27.7.1979 | in service (2019) | |
| Oswald Pirow, 4.1997- René Sethren | P1566 | Sandock Austral SY, Durban | 9.1979 | 4.3.1980 | stricken 10.2001 | |
| Hendrik Mentz, 4.1997- Galeshewe | P1567 | Sandock Austral SY, Durban | 26.3.1982 | 11.2.1983 | in service (2019) | |
| Kobie Coetsee, 4.1997- Job Masego | P1568 | Sandock Austral SY, Durban | 3.9.1982 | 11.2.1983 | stricken 2005 | |
| Magnus Malan, 4.1997- Makhanda | P1569 | Sandock Austral SY, Durban | 27.3.1986 | 4.7.1986 | stricken 2007, reinstated 2014, in service (2019) |
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Displacement standard, t |
415 |
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Displacement full, t |
450 |
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Length, m |
54.1 pp 58.1 oa |
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Breadth, m |
7.62 |
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Draught, m |
2.35 fwd 2.69 aft |
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No of shafts |
4 |
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Machinery |
4 MTU 16V538 TB91 diesels |
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Power, h. p. |
12000 |
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Max speed, kts |
34.5 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
5000(15) |
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Armament |
6 x 1 Skerpionen SSM (6 Skorpionen), 2 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Breda Compact, 2 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90 |
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Electronic equipment |
THD-1040 Neptune, RTN-10X radars, MN-53, EA-2118, Rattler ECM suites, 4x ACDS decoy RL |
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Complement |
52 |
Project history: Minister class. First three were ordered in Israel in 1974, material for three more was supplied to Durban and later six boats were ordered from Sandock Austral directly (later three boats, P1570-1572, were cancelled). Identical to Israeli Reshefs, Skerpionen SSMs are relly copies of Israeli Gabriel II.
Modernizations: 1996, Frederick Creswell; 1999, Isaac Dyobha; 2000, Galeshewe, Makhanda: - THD-1040 Neptune radar, MN-53, EA-2118 ECM suites; + EL/M-2208 radar, Delcon ECM suite, ADS Diamant CCS
2008, Isaac Dyobha, Galeshewe; 2014, Makhanda: - 6 x 1 Skerpionen SSM
Naval service: No significant events.
Adam Kok 2002
Galeshewe 2008
Many thanks to Dmitriy Babichev for correction of information on this page.
© Ivan Gogin, 2019