Frigate Spetsai (F-453)

Classification

Ship class:

Hydra-class frigate (MEKO 200HN) MEKO 200 frigate

Type:

Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:

Spetses is an affluent island and a municipality in the Islands regional unit, Attica, Greece.

Operator:

Hellenic Navy

Country of build:

Greece

Builder:

Hellenic Shipyards Co.

Laid down:

11 August 1992

Launched:

9 December 1993

Commissioned (service):

24 October 1996

Status:

Active

Ship measurements

Displacement:

4,000 t

Length:

117.5 m

Beam (waterline):

14.8 m

Draft:

6 m

Machine

Propulsion system:

CODOG

Propulsion:

2 * General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 60,656 hp
2 * MTU 20V 956 diesel engines 10,040 hp
2 * controllable pitch propellers

Speed:

31 knots

Range:

4,100 nmi (7,600 km; 4,700 mi) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) (diesels)

Personnel

Complement:

173

Combat assets

Electronics:

Signaal MW08 air search radar
Signaal DA08 air surface radar
2 * Signaal STIR fire control radar
Racal Decca 2690 BT navigation radar
Mk XII Mod 4 IFF radar
2 * Signaal Mk 73 Mod 1 radar for ESSM
Raytheon SQS-56/DE 1160 hull-mounted and VDS sonar
Signaal STACOS Mod 2 combat data system
SAR-8 IR searcher
Argo AR 700 ESM system
Telegon 10 ESM system
Argo APECS II ECM system
4 * SCLAR decoy launchers
SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy

Armament:

2 * 4 Mk141 Harpoon missile launchers
Mk 48 Mod 2 vertical launcher for 16 * RIM-162 ESSM
1 * Mk 45 Mod 2A 5" gun
2 * Mk15 Phalanx 20 mm CIWS
2 * 3 324mm Mk32 Mod 5 torpedo tubes for Mk46 torpedoes

Aircraft:

Sikorsky S-70B-6 Aegean Hawk helicopter
Helipad
Hangar

The Greek frigate Spetsai (F-453) is the second ship of the Greek Hydra frigate class. She is based on the Blohm + Voss MEKO 200 frigate class and was built by Hellenic Shipyards Co. at Skaramagas. She is the fifth ship of the Hellenic Navy to be named after the Saronic Gulf island of Spetses. She has participated in international operations such as Enduring Freedom.

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