F-480 Comandante João Belo

Country:  Portugal

Class, [Type]: Commandant Riviere, [FF].

Builder: A.C. de Bretagne, Nantes, France.

Launch date: 22 March 1966.

Commission date: 01 July 1967.

Decommission date: 08 April 2008.

Displacement ( tons ): 1.760 standard, 2.250 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 102,7 x 11,8 x 3,8

Main machinery: 4 x SEMT-Pielstick 12 PC2.2 V400 diesels ( 16.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 25.

Range ( miles ): 2.300 at 25 knots, 7.500 at 15 knots.

Complement: 183 ( 14 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 100mm/55 Model 1953, 2 x Bofors 40mm/60.

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm Mk32 Mod5 tubes ( Mk46 Mod5 torpedoes ).

Military lift: Fuel: 210 tons.

Radar: Air search: 1 x Thales DRBV-22A; Surface/Air search: 1 x Thales DRBV-50; Navigation: 1 x Kelvin-Hughes Type 1007; Fire control: 1 x Thales DRBC-31D.

Sonar: Computing Devices Canada SQS-510(V), hull mounted.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Mk 36 SRBOC; SLQ-25(V) Nixie acoustic torpedo decoy; ECM: ArgoSystems APECS-II/700 intercept/jamming.

Callsign: CTFR ()

Comment: Sold in 2008 to Uruguay, renamed as Uruguay.

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