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FM-01 Presidente Eloy Alfaro

FM-01 Presidente Eloy Alfaro

Country: Ecuador Ecuador

Class, [Type]: Leander, [FF].

Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland.

Launch date: 12 June 1972.

Commission date: 18 April 2008.

Displacement ( tons ): 2.998 standard, 3.190 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 113,38 x 13,12 x 5,49

Main machinery: 2 x White/English Electric geared steam turbines, 2 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers ( 30.000 hp ), 2 x propellers.

Speed ( knots ): 29.

Range ( miles ): 4.500 at 12 knots.

Complement: 250 ( 21 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 114mm/45 (double), 1 x 20mm/76 Phalanx Mk15, 2 x 20mm Oerlikon.

Missiles:  SSM: 4 x MM40 Exocet.

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm tubes, in two triple Mk32 mountings, for Honeywell Mk46 torpedoes.

Military lift: 500tm fuel.

Radar: Navigation: 1 x Kelvin-Hughes Type 1006; Air/Surface search: 1 x Type 965; Fire Control: 1 x Elta EL/M-2221GM.

Sonar: 1 x Type 184P.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x CORVUS.

Helicopter: 1 x Bell 206.

Comment: Ex - Chilean PFG-06 Almirante Condell.