- Omani corvette Qahir Al Amwaj
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Career 
Name: Qahir Al Amwaj Builder: Vosper Thornycroft, UK Launched: September 21, 1994 [1] Commissioned: September 03, 1996 General characteristics Displacement: 1,185 tonnes Length: 83m Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h) Crew: 60 Armament: 8x MM40 Block 2 Exocet
2x GAM-BO1 20mm gun
8x Crotale NG SAMs
Otobreda 76 mm 62 Super Rapid gunAviation facilities: Helipad The Qahir Al Amwaj is an Omani corvette of the Oman Qahir class. It was built by Vosper Thornycroft in the United Kingdom[1] as a stealthy version of their Mark 9 corvette, utilizing both radar-absorbent materials in the hull and angled shapes to minimize radar refraction.
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History
- Launched in September 1994.[1]
See also
- Al Mua'zzar - the other ship in the class
Notes and references
- ^ a b c Todd, Daniel; Lindberg, Michael (1996), Navies and Shipbuilding Industries: The Strained Symbiosis, Greenwood Publishing, ISBN 9780275953102, http://books.google.com/?id=he5KL_tWQvMC&pg=PA32&dq=Qahir+Al+Amwaj
External links
Categories:- Corvettes of the Royal Navy of Oman
- Corvettes of the United Kingdom
- Southampton-built ships
- 1996 ships
- Active corvettes of Oman
- Oman stubs
- Naval ship stubs
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