The Valour-class Frigate (production name MEKO A-200SAN) is class of light warship designed by German shipbuilding company Blohm + Voss for the South African Navy in the early to mid 2000s. The class consists of five vessels named after moments of conspicuous bravery.
Specifications[]
- Type: Stealth Frigate
- Service Period: 2006-
- Designers: Blohm + Voss Shipbuilding and Engineering Works
- Characteristics
- Length: 397 feet (121.01 meters)
- Beam: 53.6 feet (16.34 meters)
- Draft: 19.5 feet (5.95 meters)
- Displacement: 3,700 tons
- Crew: 152
- Power: 42,880 shp (31.84 MW)
- Propulsion: 2 x MTU 16V 1163 TB93 diesel engines, 1 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbine, 1 x waterjet
- Range: 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) at 16 knots (29.64 km/h)
- Speed: 28 Knots (51.86 km/h)
- Sensor Suite/Countermeasures
- Thales Naval France MRR-3D NG G-band multi-role RDF
- Reutech RTS 6400 monopulse X-band (I/J bands) combined radar and optronics trackers x 2
- Reutech Electro-optical tracker
- Tellumat Integrated Naval IFF system
- M-Tek Target Designation Sights
- Thales UMS4132 Kingklip ASDIC
- MDS 3060
- Saab Grintek Avitronics SME 100/200 ESM & ELINT
- Saab Grintek Avitronics MRL (96 decoys) x 2
- Armament
- 1 x Otobreda 76mmm naval gun
- 1 x Denel Systems 35mm Naval Defender CIWS
- 2 x Mark1 Oerlikon 20mm cannon
- 8 MBDA MM 40 Exocet Block 2 surface-to-surface missiles (mounted in two four-cell launchers)
- 16 x Umkhonto surface-to-air missiles (mounted in two eight-cell vertical launchers)
- 4 x 12.75" torpedo tubes
- Aircraft Carried: 1 x Westland Lynx, or 1 x Atlas Oryx, or 1 x AgustaWestland AW109, or 1 x Rooivalk, or several UAVs
Unit Run[]
- SAS Amatola (F145)
- SAS Isandlwana (F146)
- SAS Spioenkop (F147)
- SAS Mendi (F148)
- SAS Otavi (F149)