Buenaventura-class Frigate

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

Specifications[edit | edit source]

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