El Suez Descubierta class Corvette Egyptian Naval Force

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El Suez (Descubierta) class Corvette

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Ships:

Unit / Name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	STATUS
F 946 ENS El Suez	1978	1979	August 21, 1984	IN SERVICE
F 941 ENS Abo Qir	1979	1979	October 27, 1984	IN SERVICE

Specifications:

Builder:
Empresa Nacional Bazan, Ferrol, Spain

Displacement: 1480 tons (full load)
Length: 88.8 meters (291 feet)
Beam: 10.4 m (34 ft)
Draft: 3.8 m (12 ft)
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
Range: 4000 NMI (7400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 118

Propulsion:
2 x MTU-Bazan 16V 956 TB91 diesel engines (16000 hp / 12 MW)
2 shafts / 2 propellers

Armament:

1 x Oto-Melara 76/62 compact gun
2 x Bofors 40/L70 AA guns
1 x Albatros 8-cell missile launcher for Aspide SAM
2 x Mk.141 tube launcher for up to 8 x RGM-84 Harpoon SSM
2 x Mk.32 triple-torpedo tubes for Mk.46 torpedoes
1 x Bofors 375mm twin anti-submarine mortar

Aviation:
none

Systems:
Thales DA-05/2 air search radar
Thales ZW-06 surface search radar
Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 navigational radar
Thales WM-25 fire control system
DE-1160B sonar

The Descubierta class Corvettes is a series of Corvettes, originally built for the Spanish Navy. Two units were sold to the Egyptian Navyal Force, before commissioned in Spain.

The ships were designed in cooperation with the German company Blohm & Voss, based on the João Coutinho-class corvettes which were designed in the late 1960s for the Portuguese Navy, by the Portuguese naval engineer Rogério de Oliveira.

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F 946 ENS El Suez

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F 946 ENS El Suez

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F 946 ENS El Suez

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F 946 ENS El Suez

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F 946 ENS El Suez

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F 946 ENS El Suez

sorry, no images from F 941 ENS Abo Qir

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