WARSHIP CRAFT OTO MELARA PLUS
All four ships of the class were built in Turkey. The Sting EO fire control radar and electro-optical tracking system plus the Oto Melara 76mm/62 super rapid naval gun. The Rüzgar class is one of the Fast Attack Craft / Missile Boat classes of the Turkish Navy.ĭesigned by Lürssen Werft in Germany, these ships are almost identical to the Yıldız and Doğan classes, having the same hull, machinery and weapons but are lighter and faster. It is a guided, sabot-discarding high speed round meant to engage airplanes, missiles and fast attack crafts.
However, their relatively light armament does not fit with that qualification. Oto Melara’s ‘Strales’ for its 76.2 Super Rapido Gun is a guidance kit, having a radio frequency beam antenna for use when firing the DART (Driven Ammunition Reduced Time of flight). Overall, South Africa will send 1,495 troops to Mozambique to help its neighbour stem the jihadists onslaught in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province north of the country. Due to their size and sensor suite, the OPVs can be compared to corvettes and frigates. The Warrior-class strike craft are armed with one OTO Melara 76 mm naval artillery gun, as well as a pair of 20 mm guns and a pair of 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. There is a helipad aft but no hangar.Īnother Mowj class frigate, presumably Taftan is now under construction at the Shahid Darvishi yard.4 × 4,250 hp (3,169 kW) MTU diesel enginesġ,050 nmi (1,940 km 1,210 mi) at 30 kn (56 km/h 35 mph) The Holland class' main armament is a Oto Melara / Leonardo 76/62 SR Super Rapid gun with a firing rate of 120 rounds per minute and a maximum range of 16 km (9.9 mi). This Covert Shores Recognition Guide Covers over 80 classes of submarines including all types currently in service with World Navies.Īrmament consists of 4 Qader anti-ship missiles (derived from the Chinese C-802), 2 x Sayyad (Standard SM-1) air-defense missiles, 1 × 76 mm Fajr-27 naval gun (OTO-Melara), 1 × 40mm Fath-40 AA (Bofors), 2 × 20mm Oerlikon AA, 2 × 12.7mm heavy machine guns and 2 × triple 324mm anti-submarine torpedoes. Get The essential guide to World Submarines There had been rumors that Dena would have a new vertical launch system (VLS) with surface to air missiles (SAMs) but this is evidently not the case. But she does have a version of the Asr phased-array radar which may be a major step forward for the frigate program.Īll of the Mowj class have weak air defenses. The Otobreda (originally OTO Melara) 76/62 Compact naval 76-mm (3-in) dual-purpose single gun mounting is one of the most widely used and important equipments of its type in service anywhere in the world, and is a highly effective lightweight weapon designed for minimum volume and operation as a fully automated system against aircraft (fixed. Dena has older weapons,such as the 40mm Bofors AA. That is based on the Russian AK630 family. That featured slightly canted sides to reduce the radar signature, and a new 30mm 'Kamand' AAA. Despite being launched more recently, her superstructure is less modern than the preceding IRIS Sahand (74). The ship, IRIS Dena (75), is the first built at the Shahid Darvishi yard near Bandar Abbas. Satellite image via ( Observer IL (Twitter), of The Intel Lab. The newest ship differs from her predecessors.ĬLICK for Hi-Res. In Iranian parlance they are often called 'Destroyers'. The Mowj class are an indigenous design based on the British built Alvand Class light frigates. Iran's latest Mowj Class warship: IRIS DenaĪlthough it has barely been reported in English language sources, the Iranian Navy has taken delivery of another Mowj class frigate.
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