Victory-class corvette

Basic information

Type:

Corvette

Operators:

Republic of Singapore Navy

Country of build:

Builder:

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) Lürssen Werft

Planned:

Completed:

In service:

1990 – present (34 years)

Ship measurements

Displacement:

595 t

Length:

62 m

Beam:

8.5 m

Machine

Propulsion:

4 * Maybach MTU 16 V 538 TB93 high speed diesels
4 * shafts
Total output 16,900 hp (12,600 kW)

Speed:

37 knots

Range:

4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)

Personnel

Complement:

Combat assets

Electronics:

Search radar: Ericsson/Radamec Sea Giraffe 150HC (G/H band) / Saab Sea Giraffe AMB post-2011 SLEP
Navigation radar: Kelvin Hughes 1007 (I band)
Weapon control: Elbit MSIS optronic director
Sonar: Thomson Sintra TSM 2064 VDS
ESM: Elisra SEWS
ECM: RAFAEL RAN 1101 Jammer
Decoy: 2 * Plessey Shield 9-barrelled chaff launchers
Decoy: 2 * twin RAFAEL long range chaff launchers fitted below the bridge wings

Armament:

4 * Boeing Harpoon anti-ship missiles
2 * 8-cell VLS for IAI/RAFAEL Barak anti-air missiles
2 * triple-tubes A244/S Mod 1 torpedoes
1 * Oto Melara 76mm Super Rapid gun
4 * STK 50MG 12.7 mm (0.50 in) heavy machine guns

Aircraft:

1 * Boeing ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

The Victory class missile corvettes are multi-purpose ships based on the MGB 62 design by Germany's Lürssen shipyard for the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). The six ships were commissioned between 1990 and 1991 and form the 188 Squadron of the RSN.