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P-21 Plotarchis Blessas

P-21 Plotarchis Blessas

Country: Greece Greece

Class, [Type]: Combattante IIIN, [PTG].

Builder: CMN, Cherbourg, France.

Launch date: 10 November 1976.

Commission date: 18 July 1977.

Displacement ( tons ): 359, 425 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 56,2 x 8 x 2,1

Main machinery: 4 x MTU 20V538 TB92 diesels ( 20.800 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 36.

Range ( miles ): 700 at 32 knots, 2.700 at 15 knots.

Complement: 42 ( 5 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 76mm/62 OTOBreda, 2 twin x 30mm/75 Emerlec.

Missiles:  SSM: 4 x MM 38 Exocet.

Torpedoes: 2 fixed x 533mm tubes ( 2 x SST-4 wire-guided torpedoes ).

Radar: Surface/Air Search: 1 x Thales Triton; Navigation: 1 x Decca 1226; Fire Control: 1 x Thales Castor II, 1 x Thales Pollux.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Wegmann chaff launchers; EW: Thales DR-2000S ( intercept ).

Callsign: SZFR (SierraZuluFoxtrotRomeo)

Comment: The first four units of the class have better weapons, sensors and propulsion systems and were all built in France, rest of the class built in Greece. Main differences are the Penguin missiles, instead of the Exocet, and the MTU 20V538 TB91 diesels.

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