El Fateh Gowind 2500 class Corvette Egyptian Naval Force

Arab Republic of Egypt - Egyptian Naval Force
El Fateh (Gowind 2500) class Corvette

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Ships:

Unit / Name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	STATUS
971 ENS El Fateh	September 30, 2015	September 17, 2016	September 22, 2017	IN SERVICE
976 ENS Port Said	April 16, 2016	September 7, 2018	January 6, 2021	IN SERVICE
981 ENS El Moez	July 2018	May 12, 2019	?	IN SERVICE
986 ENS Al-Ismaili (ex Luxor)	2019	May 14, 2020	?	IN SERVICE

Specifications:

Builder:
DCNS (now Naval Group), Lorient, France (971)
Alexandria Shipyard, Alexandria, Egypt (976, 981, 986)

Displacement: 2600 tons (full load)
Length: 102 meters (334 feet 8 inches)
Beam: 16 m (52 ft 6 in)
Draft: 5.4 m (17 ft 8 in)
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
Range: 3700 NMI (6900 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 65

Propulsion:
CODED (combined diesel-electric and diesel-mechanical)
2 x MTU diesel engines (10 MW)
2 x Leroy-Somer electric motors
2 shafts / 2 CRP propellers

Armament:

Vertical Launching System (VLS) - 16 cells
for
MBDA VL-MICA SAM missiles

8 x MBDA MM40 Exocet Block 3 SSM missiles
1 x Oto-Melara (Leonardo) 76/62 gun
2 x Nexter Narwhal 20 Naval Weapon Station / NWS
2x3 324 mm torpedo tubes for MU90 Impact torpedoes

Aviation:
flight deck and hangar for 1 helicopter

Systems:
Naval Group SETIS combat management system
Thales SMART-S Mk.2 3D air and surface surveillance radar
Thales CAPTAS-2 variable depth sonar (TASS)
VIGILE 200 Tactical R-ESM System
ALTESSE Naval C-ESM

The Gowind 2500 multi-mission corvette is designed for surveillance, surface and subsurface combat, protection and escort naval missions. It can also perform presence, maritime surveillance and policing missions against trafficking and piracy.

In 2014, Egypt signed a €1bn contract with Naval Group to buy four Gowind 2,500-ton corvettes with an option for two more. Separately, MBDA negotiated a contract to equip the ships with MICA vertical launch air-defense missiles and MM40 Block 3 Exocet anti-ship missiles, together worth an additional 400 million euros, while Naval Group negotiated a 100-200 million euro contract for torpedoes. Three of the corvettes are to be built locally by Alexandria Shipyard within a technology transfer agreement. It was apparently President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi who decided these were the ships he wanted rather than the Meko A200 being offered by German group ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) or the Sigma corvette proposed by Damen of the Netherlands. Egypt is in talks with France to acquire another two Gowind corvettes which, if ordered, would be produced by France in Lorient.

In April 2015, Naval Group started cutting metal for the very first Gowind 2500 corvette, with a planned construction period of 29 months. It is the first of a series of four units that will be delivered to Egypt before 2019. The corvette's first block was laid in the dry dock in September 2015. Naval Group celebrated the launch of the first Egyptian Gowind corvette El Fateh at the Lorient naval shipyard in September 2016. El Fateh successfully concluded its first sea trials by the end of March 2017. The Egyptian Navy took delivery of the vessel in September 2017, three years after the order was placed.

Alexandria Shipyard started cutting metal for the second Gowind corvette intended for the Egyptian Navy in April 2016, it is the first corvette to be built locally in Egypt. Naval Group sent supervision and technical assistance teams, technical data and necessary components to Alexandria for assisting Egypt in the local construction of the three corvettes. The company also provided training for the Egyptian staff at its site in Lorient. All the Panoramic Sensors and Intelligence Modules (PSIM) were produced and tested in Lorient by Naval Group and later shipped to Alexandria for installation on the corvettes.

source: wikipedia

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