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Guided missile frigate SPS Numancia (F83)‎

Guided missile frigate SPS Numancia (F83)‎ 0Guided missile frigate SPS Numancia (F83)‎ 1

Classification

Ship class:
Santa Maria-class frigate
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
Numancia
Operator:
Spanish NavySpanish Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Navantia
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Status:
Active
MMSI number:
224964000

Ship measurements

Displacement:
4,177 t
Length:
138.8 m
Beam:
14.3 m
Draft:
8.6 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
COGAG
Propulsion:
  • 2 * General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) coupled to a single shaft and controllable-pitch propeller
Speed:
30 knots
Range:
4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)

Personnel

Complement:
205

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • AN/SPS-49 2-D air search radar
  • RAN-12L (being replaced by RAN-30) low horizon air search radar for Meroka CIWS
  • AN/SPS-55 surface search and navigation radar
  • Mk 92 Guided Missile Fire Control System
  • AN/SPG-60 Separate Target Illumination Radar (STIR) Missile Control Radar
  • AN/SQQ-89 Anti-Submarine Warfare System
  • AN/SQS-56 active/passive sonar
  • AN/SQR-19 TACTASS Tactical Towed Array Sonar System
  • EN/SLQ-610 Nettunel electronic countermeasures unit
  • SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
  • Mk-36 SRBOC chaff & decoy launchers
Armament:
  • 1 * Mk-13 single-arm Missile Launcher with a 40-round underdeck magazine for a mix of RIM-66 Standard Missile SM-1MR or RGM-84 Harpoon SSM
  • 1 * Oto-Melara 76/62 gun (3 inches / 62-caliber)
  • 2 * Mk-32 12.75" (324mm) triple torpedo tubes for Mk-46 / Mod.5 torpedoes
  • 1 * FABA Meroka 20mm CIWS
Aircraft:
  • 2 * Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III

Numancia (F83) is the third of the six Spanish-built Santa Maria-class frigates, based on the American Oliver Hazard Perry class design, of the Spanish Navy.

Laid down on 8 January 1986, and launched on 29 January 1987, Numancia was commissioned in service on 17 November 1989. She was the frigate long-hull variant (Flight II). All of these Spanish frigates have the length of the later Oliver Hazard Perry frigates, and have a wider beam than the US Navy design, and are therefore able to carry more top weight. Fin stabilizers are fitted.

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