F-330 Vasco da Gama

Country:  Portugal

Class, [Type]: Vasco da Gama ( Meko 200 ), [FF].

Builder: Blohm + Voss, Hamburg, Germany.

Launch date: 26 June 1989.

Commission date: 20 November 1990.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.200 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 115,9 x 14,8 x 5,97

Main machinery: CODOG: 2 x GE LM 2500 gas turbines ( 53.000 hp ), 2 x MTU 12V 1163 TB83 diesels ( 8.840 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 31.75 kts (18 on diesel).

Range ( miles ): 900 at 31.75 knots, 4.100 at 18 knots (2 diesels), 9.600 at 12 knots.

Complement: 180 ( 19 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 100mm/55 Model 1968 CADAM, 1 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm, 2 x single Oerlikon Mk4 20mm/70.

Missiles:  SSM: 8 x RGM-84C Harpoon; SAM: 1 x Mk 29 launcher ( 8 x RIM-7M Sea Sparrow missiles ).

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm tubes ( 2 x triple Mk 32 Mod. 5 launchers ). Mk 46 Mod. 5 torpedoes.

Military lift: fuel: 300 tons.

Radar: Air search: 1 x Thales MW08, 3D, G band; Air/surface search: 1 x Thales DA08, F band; Navigation: 1 x Kelvin Hughes Type 1007, I band; Fire control: 2 x Signaal STIR, I/J/K bands ( missiles ), 1 x General Dynamics Mk 90 ( CIWS ).

Sonar: Computing Devices (Canada) SQS-510(V), hull-mounted, active search and attack, medium frequency.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Loral Hycor Mk 36 SRBOC; Sea Gnat; SLQ-25 Nixie, towed torpedo decoy; ESM/ECM: Argo AR 700/APECS II, intercept and jammer.

Helicopter: 2 x Lynx Mk 95 ASW.

Callsign: CTFJ ()

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