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Name: | Aster |
Namesake: | Aster |
Builder: | Mercantile-Belyard Shipyard, Rupelmonde |
Launched: | 16 December 1985 |
Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Tripartite-class minehunter |
Displacement: | 536 t (528 long tons) empty 605 t (595 long tons) full load |
Length: | 51.5 m (169 ft) |
Beam: | 8.96 m (29.4 ft) |
Height: | 18.5 m (61 ft) |
Draught: | 3.6 m (12 ft) |
Propulsion: | 1 × 1370 kW Werkspoor RUB 215 V12 diesel engine 2 × 180 kW ACEC active rudders 1 × HOLEC bow propellor |
Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Range: | 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Boats and landing craft carried: |
2 × rigid-hulled inflatable boats 1 × Atlas Elektronik Seafox ROV |
Complement: | 4 officers, 15 non-commissioned officers, 17 sailors |
Sensors and processing systems: |
1 × Thales Underwater Systems TSM 2022 Mk III Hull Mounted Sonar 1 × SAAB Bofors Double Eagle Mk III Self Propelled Variable Depth Sonar 1 × Consilium Selesmar Type T-250/10CM003 Radar |
Armament: | 3 × 12.7 mm machine guns |
Aster (M915) is a Tripartite-class minehunter of the Belgian Naval Component, launched on December 16, 1985 at the Mercantile-Belyard shipyard in Rupelmonde and christened by Queen Paola of Belgium. The patronage of Aster was accepted by the city of Blankenberge. Aster was the first of the Belgian Tripartite-class minehunters.
It is currently commanded by Lieutenant First Class (Lieutenant Commander) Luc Van Tricht[1].
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