Valour-class Frigate

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 radar
 * 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 sonar
 * MDS 3060
 * Countermeasures:
 * 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)