Buenaventura-class Frigate

The Buenaventura-class frigates are a class of warship in service in the Spanish Navy from the mid-1990s onwards.

Specifications

 * Type: Guided Missile Frigate
 * Service Period: 1995-Present
 * Characteristics:
 * Length: 470 feet (143.26 meters)
 * Beam: 52 feet 6 inches (16 meters)
 * Draft: 15 feet 9 inches (4.8 meters)
 * Displacement: 5,450 tons (Full Load)
 * Crew: 230
 * Propulsion: 2 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 x shafts, 50,000 shp (38 MW)
 * Range: 5,000 nautical miles (9,260 kilometers) at 19 knots (35.19 km/h)
 * Speed: 28 knots (51.86 km/h)
 * Sensor Suite:
 * AN/SPS-49(V)5 C/D-Band Air Search Radar
 * AN/SPS-55 I-Band Surface Search Radar
 * RAN-12L Fire Control Radar
 * Mk.92 Mod 6 CORT Fire Control System
 * AN/SQS-56 Bow Sonar
 * AN/SQR-19(V)2 TACTASS
 * Countermeasures:
 * Nettunel Mk.3000 Electronic Warfare Suite
 * AN/SLQ-25C Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures Suite
 * Mk.36 SBROC Decoy Launcher
 * Armament:
 * 1 x 5"/54-caliber Mk.45 Mod 2 lightweight naval gun
 * 2 x 16-cell Mk.41 VLS (fires RIM-162 ESSM)
 * 2 x Mk.141 Harpoon AShM Launchers
 * 2 x 12.75" Mk.32 triple torpedo tubes (fires Mk.46 torpedoes)
 * 2 x 20mm Meroka Mod 2B CIWS
 * 2 x 12.7mm M2 Browning machine guns
 * Aircraft Carried: 1 x Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk maritime helicopter

Unit Run

 * SPS Buenaventura (F-91)
 * SPS Concordia (F-92)
 * SPS Edetana (F-93)
 * SPS Valiente (F-94)
 * SPS Prosperidad (F-95)
 * SPS Animosa (F-96)
 * SPS Vigilante (F-97)
 * SPS Constancia (F-98)