Pattani-class corvette (Type P15T)

Basic information

Type:

Corvette

Parent class:

Jiangdao-class corvette (Type 056)

Operators:

Royal Thai Navy

Country of build:

People's Republic of China

Builder:

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC)

Planned:

Completed:

In service:

2005 – present (19 years)

Ship measurements

Displacement:

1,460 t

Length:

95.5 m

Beam:

11.6 m

Machine

Propulsion:

2 * Ruston16RK270 diesel engines
2 * shafts with controllable pitch propellers

Speed:

25 knots

Range:

3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)

Personnel

Complement:

Combat assets

Electronics:

1 * Selex RAN-30X/I multimode surveillance radar with IFF
1 * Rheinmetall TMX/EO fire control radar and optronic director
3 * Raytheon Anschutz NSC-25 SeaScout navigational radar
Atlas Elektronik COSYS combat management system
Raytheon Anschutz IBS/INS NSC-series
Communication system: Rohde & Schwarz Integrated Communication system

Armament:

1 * Oto Melara 76/62 Super Rapid
2 * Denel Land Systems GI-2 20mm autocannon
2 * U.S. Ordnance M2HB .50 caliber machine gun

Under a May 2002 agreement, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation built the HTMS Pattani and her sister ship HTMS Naratiwat at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. The HTMS Pattani was launched in 2004 and delivered to the Royal Thai Navy on 16 December 2005.

The Thai Navy's Pattani-class OPV bears a resemblance to the subsequent Chinese Type 056 corvette, though the later is up-gunned relative to the Thai OPV, with four YJ-3/C803 ASM and a FL-3000N RAM launcher aft, while the former has a much taller superstructure. Built for the Royal Thai Navy by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, each OPV cost about US$50 million. The vessels were commissioned in 2006-2007.