De Zeven Provinciën class frigate

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The De Zeven Provinciën class frigates are highly advanced air-defence frigates in service with the Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy). This class of ships is also known as LCF (Luchtverdedigings- en commandofregat, air defence and command frigate).

[edit] Specifications

• Type: Air-defense and command frigate (LCF)
• Length: 144.24 m
• Beam: 18.80 m
• Draft: 5.18 m
• Displacement: 6,050 tonnes (full load)
• Propulsion: combined diesel or gas system
  • 2 propeller shafts, controllable pitch propellers
  • 2 Stork Wärtsilä 16V6ST diesel engines, 8.4 MW each
  • 2 Rolls Royce Spey SM1C gas turbines, 18.5 MW each
  • 4 GEC Alsthom Paxman diesel-generators, 1650 kW each
  • Range: 5000 nautical miles at 18 kt
  • Maximum Speed: 30 kt
• Sensors:
  • 1 Thales Nederland SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar
  • 1 Thales Nederland APAR air and surface search, tracking and guidance radar (I band)
  • 1 DECCA NAV navigation radar
  • 1 Thales Nederland Scout 1 surface search/navigation radar
  • 1 Thales Sirius IRST long-range infrad surveillance and tracking system
  • 1 Thales Mirador optical tracking system
  • 1 STN Atlas DSQS-24C hull-mounted sonar, medium frequency
  • 1 MK XII IFF system
• Countermeasures:
  • 1 Thomson Racal (now Thales) Sabre ECM suite
  • 4 Sippican Hycor SRBOC MK36 launcher
  • 1 AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
• Communication: Link 16 and Link 11
• Armament:
  • 5 Mk41 vertical launch system with 8 cells each
    • standard armament: 32 ESSM (4 per cell) and 32 SM-2 IIIA surface-to-air missiles
    • Another 8 cell MK41 VLS can be added
  • 2 Goalkeeper CIWS guns
  • 2 quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launcher
  • 1 Oto Breda 127 mm/54 dual-purpose gun
  • 2 Oerlikon Contraves 20 mm machine guns
  • 2 twin MK32 Mod 9 torpedo launchers with Raytheon MK46 Mod 5 torpedoes
• Hangar for 1 Westland Lynx or NH-90 helicopter
• Endurance: 3 weeks
• Complement: 202 + 30

[edit] List of ships

Pennant number	Name	Laid down	Launched	Com- missioned
F802	De Zeven Provinciën	September 1, 1998	April 8, 2000	April 26, 2002
F803	Tromp	September 1999	July 2001	March 2003
F804	De Ruyter	September 2000	July 2001	March 2004
F805	Evertsen	September 2001	July 2004	2005

All ships were built at Royal Schelde's shipyard in Vlissingen, Netherlands.

[edit] References

• De Zeven Provincien Class Air Defence and Command Frigate @ naval-technology.com
• Netherlands - De Zeven Provincien Class Destroyer @ AMI International
• De Zeven Provinciën class (Private page)