SS-23 O´Higgins

Country:  Chile

Class, [Type]: Scorpene, [SSK].

Builder: DCN, Cherbourg, France / Izar, Cartagena, Spain.

Launch date: 23 October 2003.

Commission date: 09 September 2005.

Displacement ( tons ): 1.564 surfaced, 1.711 submerged.

Dimensions ( metres ): 66 x 6,2 x 5,5

Main machinery: diesel-electric: 4 x MTU 16V396 SE84 diesels ( 840 x hp each ), 1 x Jeumont Schneider electric motor ( 4.694 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 12 knots surfaced, 20 knots submerged.

Range ( miles ): 6.500 at 8 knots surfaced, 550 at 4 knots submerged.

Complement: 31 ( 6 officers ).

Torpedoes: 6 x 533mm tubes ( 18 x DCN-WASS Black Shark and STN Atlas Elektronik SUT 266 wire-guided torpedoes ).

Radar: Surface search/Navigation: 1 x Kelvin-Hughes Type 1007.

Sonar: Thales SUBTICS suite, with TSM 2253 passive flank arrays.

Countermeasures: EW: Condor Systems AR-900 ( intercept ).

Comment: Maximum endurance is 50 days. Capable of operating depths up to 350 m.

Homeport: Talcahuano.

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