Legends-class Guided Missile Corvette

The profile of the Legends-class and a proposed variant, the Alberni-class.

The Legends-class Guided Missile Corvette is a class of corvette (based on the Israeli Sa'ar 5-class) in service in the Royal Canadian Navy from 2026 onwards. The first one is named after Romeo Dallaire who died of a heart attack in September 2026.

Specifications

• Type: Guided Missile Corvette (Hull designation symbol KG)
• Service Period: 2026-
• Cost: $300,000,000 CAD
• Characteristics
  • Length: 330 feet (100.58 meters)
  • Beam: 39 feet (11.89 meters)
  • Draft: 12 feet (3.66 meters)
  • Height: 110 feet (33.53 meters)
  • Displacement: 2,025 tons (Standard); 2,430 tons (Full Load)
• Crew: 93
• Power: 33,100 shp
• Propulsion: 1 x General Electric LM2500+ gas turbines, 2 x Magna-Steyr diesel engines
• Range: 3,550 nautical miles (6,574.6 kilometers)
• Speed: 33 Knots (61.12 km/h)
• Sensor Suite
  • System 025A medium-range air search radar
  • System 034SCR long-range surface search radar
  • System 050C Integrated Information Transfer System
  • Raytheon Pathfinder Mk.II Ka-Band Navigation Radar
  • AN/SPG-503 STIR 1.8 Fire Control Radar
  • AN/SQR-507 passive towed sonar array
  • AN/SQS-525 active variable-depth hull sonar
• Countermeasures
  • Elisra M275 Electronic Warfare Suite
• Armament
  • 1 x OTO Melara 76mm/62-caliber Strales naval gun
  • 2 x Diemaco C25 14.5mm machine guns
  • 1 x 32-cell Mk.41 VLS (fires RUM-139 VL-ASROC and RIM-162 ESSM)
  • 2 x Mk.141 Harpoon SSM Launchers
  • 2 x Mk.32 12.75" triple torpedo tubes (fires Mk.54 MAKO lightweight torpedoes)
  • 1 x 35mm Naval Defender CIWS

Unit Run

• HMCS Romeo Dallaire (KG-274)
• HMCS Terry Fox (KG-275)
• HMCS Rick Hansen (KG-276)
• HMCS Tommy Douglas (KG-277)
• HMCS Rick Hillier (KG-278)
• HMCS John A. McDonald (KG-279)
• HMCS Maurice Richard (KG-280)

See Also

• Sa'ar 5-class Corvette