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FF-05 Almirante Cochrane

FF-05 Almirante Cochrane

Country: Chile Chile

Class, [Type]: Type 23, [FF].

Builder: Marconi Marine-Yarrow, Glasgow, U.K.

Launch date: 10 July 1987.

Commission date: 22 November 2006.

Draw

Displacement ( tons ): 3.500 standard, 4.200 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 133 x 16,1 x 7,7

Main machinery: CODLAG: 2 x RR Spey SM1A gas turbines ( 41.540 hp ); 4 x Paxman Valenta 12 RPA 200CZ ( 8.100 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 28; 15 on diesel-electric.

Range ( miles ): 7.800 at 15 knots.

Complement: 174 ( 12 officers ) ( accomodation for 185 ( 16 officers )).

Guns: 1 x Vickers 114mm/55 Mk8, 2 x Oerlikon/DES Mk1 30mm/75.

Missiles:  SSM: 8 x McDonnell Douglas Harpoon ( 2 quads ); SAM: British Aerospace Seawolf GWS 26 Mod 1 VLS, 32 canisters.

Torpedoes: 4 x Cray Marine 324mm fixed tubes ( 2 twin ). Marconi Stingray torpedoes.

Radar: Air/Surface search: Plessey Type 996(I), 3D, E/F bands; Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1007, I band; Fire control: 2 x Marconi Type 911, I/Ku bands.

Sonar: Ferranti/Thomson Sintra Type 2050, bow mounted, active search and attack modes; Dowty Type 2031Z, towed array, passive search.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x Sea Gnat; Type 182, towed torpedo decoy; ESM: Racal UAF-1 Cutlass; ECM: Type 675(2) or Racal Scorpion, jammer.

Helicopter: 1 x Super Puma.

Comment: Ex - F230 HMS Norfolk.

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