Tachin-class Guided Missile Frigate

The Tachin-class guided missile frigates are a pair of frigates under construction for the Royal Thai Navy. They are based on the South Korean Gwanggaeto the Great-class destroyers.

Specifications[edit | edit source]

Type: Guided Missile Frigate
Service Period: 2020-
Characteristics:
- Length: 404 feet (123.14 meters)
- Beam: 47 feet 3 inches (14.4 meters)
- Draught: 26 feet 3 inches (8 meters)
- Displacement; 3,700 tons
Crew: 136
Installed Power: 4 x Ship Service Power Generation (Each of 830 kW Rated output)
Propulsion: 2 x diesel engines, 1 x controllable pitch propellor
Range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,408 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
Speed: 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
Sensor Suite:
- Saab Sea Giraffe 4A S-Band Long Range 3D Air/Surface Search Radar
- Saab Sea Giraffe AMB C-Band Medium Range 3D Air/Surface Search Radar
- ASO Bow Sonar
- ACTAS Towed Array Sonar
Countermeasures:
- Mk.53 Nulka decoy launchers
Armament
- 1 x 76mm/62-caliber OTO Melara naval gun
- 1 x 8-cell Mk.41 VLS (fires RUM-139 VL-ASROC and RIM-162 ESSM)
- 2 x 4-cannister Mk.141 SSM Launchers (fires RGM-84L Harpoon Blk.2+ AShMs)
- 2 x 30mm DS30M Mk.II autocannons
- 2 x .50-caliber M2HB machine guns
- 2 x 12.75" Mk.32 triple torpedo tubes (fires Mk.44/46 lightweight torpedoes)
- 2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft Carried: 1 x S-70B Sea Hawk or MH-60S Knighthawk maritime helicopter