Characteristics
Country: Portugal
Builder: Blohm & amp; Your
Release Year: 1989
Class: 'Vasco da Gama' Meko 200P
Standard displacement: 2700t
Maximum Displacement: 3200t
Length: 115.9m
Width: 14.2m
Draft: 6.2m
Garrison: 180 Men
Maximum Speed:
- Diesel Engines: 20 knots
- Gas Turbines: 32 knots
Propulsion:
- 2 MTU Diesel Engines: 8,840hp
- 2 GELM Gas Turbines: 53,000hp
Autonomy: 17000 km at 15 knots
Armament / Equipment
Cannons
- 1 x DCN - Mod 1968 CADAM 100mm (Range: 17Km)
- 2 x Oerlikon 20mm Mod.1930 (Range: 2Km)
- 1 x Phalanx Mk15 Block 1 20mm (Range: 2.3Km)
Surface-to-air missiles
- Mk.29 launch system
- 8 x RIM-7M Seasparrow (Close air defense) (Range: 15km)
Surface-to-surface missiles
- Mk.141 launch system
- 8 x RGM 84D Harpoon (Anti-ship) (Range: 120km)
Torpedoes
- 6 x ATK Alliant Techsystems MK-46 mod.5 - 2x3 Mk.32 launchers
Embedded Aircraft
- 2 x Agusta-Westland Lynx Mk95 Helicopter
Sonares
- General Dynamics Canada SQS-510 / Active search / attack
Radars
- Thales Nederland STIR-180 (Shooting Director - Al.med: 97Km)
- Kelvin Hughes KH-1007 (F) (Navigation - Al.med: 37Km)
- Thales Nederland MW-08 (Combined Air / surface - Al.med: 54Km)
- Thales Nederland DA-08 (Airline search - Al.med: 145Km)
Other Systems
- Thales Nederland STACOS Mk.II (combat data management system)
- Thales Nederland VESTA-Helo (OHTS - Aiming system beyond the horizon)
- Boeing Company AN / SWG-1A (V) (combat data management system)
- EDO Corp. APECS-II / AR700 (Electronic Countermeasures)
- Argon - ST AN / SLQ-25 (Anti-torpedo decoy)
- EADS Mk 36 SRBOC (Electronic Countermeasures)