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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES NAVY (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

Bay inshore minesweepers (1986-1987/-)

Rushcutter 2000

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

(ex-Rushcutter)

   

Carrington Slipways, Tomago, Australia

31.5.1984

8.5.1986

1.11.1986 // ---

never commissioned

(ex-Shoalwater)

 

 

Carrington Slipways, Tomago, Australia

17.9.1985

26.6.1987

10.10.1987 // ---

never commissioned

 

 

Displacement standard, t

100

Displacement full, t

170

Length, m

28.0 wl 31.0 oa

Breadth, m

9.00

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

2 Schottel azimuthal pods

Machinery

2 SACM-Poyaud 520-V8-S2 diesel-pumps, 2 hydraulic motors

Power, h. p.

340

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 1200(10)

Armament

2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2x PAP-104 USV, Mini-Dyad magnetic minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment

type 1006 radar, MWS-80-5 (DSQS-11M) sonar

Complement

13

Project history: Former Australian catamaran-hulled inshore minesweepers of Bay-class, purchased in 2004 but never commissioned by Navy.

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