- Osprey 55 class gunboat
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The gunboat class Osprey 55 is a Danish-designed class of naval ship currently in service in the Hellenic Navy. Two ships were ordered in March 1988. The first one was laid down on 8 May 1989 and launched on 19 December 1989. The second ship was laid down on 9 November 1989 and launched on 16 May 1990. Armament is of modular design and therefore can be changed. 76-mm guns replaced the Bofors 40-mm in 1995, after being taken from decommissioned Gearing-class destroyers. Options on more of the class were shelved in favour of the Gunboats Class HSY-55.
Ships
- Armatolos (P 18), commissioned 27 March 1990
- Navmachos (P 19), commissioned 15 July 1990
Specifications
- Displacement, full load: 563.8 tonnes
- Length: 54.8 m
- Beam: 10.5 m
- Draught: 2.6 m
- Range: 500 NM
- Speed: 25 kn
- Main machinery: 2 MTU 16V 1163 TB63 diesels; 10,000 hp(m) (7.3 MW) sustained; 2 shafts; Kamewa cp props.
- Speed: 25 kn
- Range: 500 NM at 25 kn; 2,800 NM at 12 kn
- Crew: 36, plus 25 troops.
- Missiles: SSM: 4 Boeing Harpoon (can be fitted).
- Guns: 1 Oto Melara 76 mm/62 compact, 1 Bofors 40 mm/70.
- Mines: Rails.
- Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 chaff launchers.
- ESM: Thomson-CSF DR 2000S; intercept.
- Weapons control: Selenia Elsag NA 21.
- Radars: Surface search: Thomson-CSF Triton; G-band.
- Fire control: Selenia RTNX; I/J-band.
References
Ship classes of the Hellenic Navy Frigates Gunboats Submarines Fast Attack Craft Mine Warfare Ships Categories:- Patrol vessels
- Naval ships of Greece
- Ships of the Hellenic Navy
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